Category: Green

Green Tech

  • Fancy walking around with urine in your socks?

    According to a press release from the University of the West of England in Bristol, a team working under Professor Ioannis Ieropoulos has developed socks…

  • Wireless Phone Charging Without the Extra Antennas

    About a year ago, when we were in the wake of numerous wireless power announcements, we discussed a technology called “Cota” from a company called…

  • A Tale of Two Networks

    I was talking to Atmel the other day – they had announced the release of their ATPL230 power line communication (PLC) chip, which was filling…

  • Wireless and LED Power Combined

    From where we sit in the electronics world, you can sometimes be lulled into thinking we see all that goes on around us. And then…

  • Ban Power Consumption

    “How much power does it consume?” This has been a key question ever since I started work as a product engineer many years ago. Heck,…

  • Power Bank SoCs

    I ask a lot of stupid questions because usually they’re not stupid. Occasionally one is. OK, maybe not outright stupid, but I certainly felt out…

  • Qualcomm Plugs In @ Home

    It almost sounds too good to be true. You plug in your new connectable gadget, and not only do you get power, but you’re also…

  • Isn’t Sensor Fusion CPU-Agnostic?

    Sensor fusion is algorithms. And these algorithms are typically executed as software. So that should be simple, right? Just get your sensor fusion libraries from…

  • What is a Maker?

    They call themselves “Makers.” As far as I can tell, up until a few years ago, the verb “to make” was an everyday garden-variety word…

  • Cleaning Up After You

    This is something of a more off-the-beaten path story that I ran into at Semicon West. I talked with a German company called DAS that…