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Cypress TrueTouch for Smart Touch Screen Solutions

Cypress Semiconductor has announced a new feature that supports hover detection in its capacitive touchscreen technology

29 Apr 2010

MMT Smart GPS Antenna Module for GPS Receiver

Micro Modular Technologies (MMT) has recently announced a very small GPS receiver with the MN5020HS, a smart GPS antenna module.

28 Apr 2010

Southampton University’s Radio-Based Sensor Probes to Predict Landslides

Fist-sized sensor probes developed by Dr Kirk Martinez at the University of Southampton’s School of Electronics and Computer Science and Geography Professor Jane Hart have been installed in Mexico’s Los Laureles Canyon, a region that is always under water caused by mud slides and heavy downpours. Dr Martinez was the first to make sensor-based probes in 2003 for monitoring movement of the glacier.

27 Apr 2010

SII Improves Silicon Drift Detectors for Characterization of Nanoparticles

The 50mm² silicon drift detectors (SDD) designs have been customized by SII NanoTechnology USA (SIINT) recently.

26 Apr 2010

Tel Aviv University Algorithms Enable Car Mounted Cameras to Sense Threats

General Motors Research Israel’s researchers are working with image processing expert Prof Shai Avidan and his team from the Faculty of Engineering at the Tel Aviv University on the development of enhanced algorithms that will empower General Motors’ (GM) cars mounted cameras to sense threats so that the drivers can be alerted for making split-second decisions.

26 Apr 2010

Wireless Container Monitoring Solution from System Planning

GlobalTrak, a tracking and monitoring technology for container applications, which was pioneered by the System Planning Corporation (SPC), has helped the company to receive its fourth container security patent award that is reference numbered US 7,702,358 and dated April 20, 2010.

23 Apr 2010