Digital radiography greatly benefits the healthcare industry, but it also places high demands on medical equipment manufacturers. Neil Oliver explores how smart batteries can help meet these challenges.
A project is bringing Bosch, the BMW Group, and Vattenfall together to take used batteries from electric vehicles (EVs) and form a large-scale energy storage system in Hamburg.
MIT spin-out, Verayo is taking advantage of the random variations in silicon chips and using them as authentication identifiers for consumer products.
Apple has applied for a patent to build a docking station to charge devices like the iPhone and iPad, which will retract the connector when the "iDevice" is being removed, to prevent damage to both the dock and the item. Neil Oliver reports.
Sandia National Laboratories is studying how environments, including radiation that originates from a nuclear weapon itself, could affect the performance of electronics in the W76-1 warhead as they age.