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Hackerspaces and new frontiers in wireless innovation

04/07/2013

New York is fast becoming a major centre for new technology fuelled by an increase of more than 30 percent in venture capital since 2007 prompting the emergence the natural outgrowth of Hackerspaces.

The proven value of wireless utility monitoring

25/06/2013

Wireless utility monitoring products from HWM’s Radio-Tech brand have been used by Verco Advisory Services to reduce a major UK food producer’s water consumption by almost 10 percent and gas consumption by over 5 percent in just five months, with projections showing savings of around £1m in only two years.

Sensing the future: humanoid robots

20/06/2013

Last year, the Robot Studio decided to make a statement in the world of humanoid robotics when they aspired to replicate the form and function of arguably the most precise, versatile, and complex mechanical system to exist: the human shoulder, arm and hand.

Making frequency-hopping radios a more practical proposition

09/06/2013

New hardware could lead to wireless devices that identify and exploit unused transmission frequencies, using radio spectrum much more efficiently. Larry Hardesty reports.

Three-dimensional monitoring of high-speed fabrication