- Author: Alun Williams
- Date: 19 January
A look at the people, gadgets and keynotes at CES International 2012 in Las Vegas, including the Sony Ericsson SmartWatch, the Invoxia NVX610, a PowerBag, and GreenWave Reality energy management.
- Author: Alun Williams
- Date: 17 January
The US Navy has tested a spy-in-the-sky glider 30cm across made from circuit boards. Its lack of a motor and small size make it nearly undetectable in flight, says the US Naval Research Laboratory.
- Author: Alun Williams
- Date: 11 January
View all the winners at the recent Elektra 2011 European Electronics Industry Awards at the Park Plaza Hotel in London, including Dick Skipworth who took the Lifetime Achievement Award.
- Author: Alun Williams
- Date: 16 December
A taste of the Elektra Awards 2011, giving you another chance to recognise friends or colleagues, and see the party, at the Westminster Park Plaza. The host for the evening was Greg Davies.
- Author: Alun Williams
- Date: 20 October 2011
Take a closer look at the features Google is highlighting in the latest 4.0 release of its Android mobile platform, including the NFC-based Android Beam, face recognition, new camera functionality, resizable widgets, and tabbed browsing...
- Author: Alun Williams
- Date: 5 October 2011
Electronics Weekly, in association with Jonathan Lee Recruitment, has carried out a major survey of salary levels in the UK electronics industry. Thanks to the more than one thousand people who took the time to take part!
- Author: Alun Williams
- Date: 15 September 2011
Take a closer look at the solar car Quantum, The University of Michigan's entry for the World Solar Challenge across the Australian outback in October. The team are reigning champions of the North American Solar Challenge.
- Author: Alun Williams
- Date: 18 August 2011
A behind the scenes look at Festo's SmartBird project, and its aerodynamic electronics, which was featured recently at the 2011 TED Talks as the 'first ultralight artificial bird capable of flying like a real bird'.
- Author: Alun Williams
- Date: 4 August 2011
The Galaxy Tab 10.1 runs Android Honeycomb 3.1 on a Nvidia Tegra 2 processor and features a 10.1 inch WXGA TFT LCD screen, weighs 565 grams and is 8.6 millimetres thick. Take a closer look!
- Author: Alun Williams
- Date: 22 July 2011
congatec AG, a manufacturer of Qseven, COM Express, XTX and ETX embedded computer boards, pictures its modules from a slightly different angle.
- Author: Alun Williams
- Date: 13 June 2011
Engineers at the University of California San Diego are mimicking the movement of bird wings to help improve the manoeuvrability of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Future research could combine twisting and flapping.
- Author: Alun Williams / NIF
- Date: 20 May 2011
A gallery of pictures of Pinta, the robotic sailing boat. A project at Aberystwyth University, it made an attempted crossing of the Atlantic and achieved the longest period of unattended autonomous sailing.
- Author: Alun Williams / NIF
- Date: 15 April 2011
A pictorial look at the National Ignition Campaign, a series of experiments and simulations for fusion ignition tests, using lasers that have broken the megajoule barrier (picture credits: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
- Author: Faisal Alani, Computer Weekly
- Date: 5 April 2011
The Apple iPad2 may be blazing the tablet trail but it is not alone. View this roundup of alternative tablets from the very latest releases, from the likes of Samsung LG, HTC, Motorola, Asus, Dell, HP and Sharp...
- Author: Faisal Alani, Computer Weekly
- Date: 17 March 2011
For the Atmospheric Research through Robotic Aircraft project, Southampton University successfully recovers instrumentation launched into the stratosphere using a high altitude balloon.
- Author: Alun Williams
- Date: 7 March 2011
Richard Wilson takes a visual snapshot of Embedded World 2011 in Nuremberg. View the pictures from the major embedded technology event covering automotive, military, telecomms, industrial and CE sectors.
- Author: Alun Williams
- Date: 17 February 2011
Our man in Barcelona, Richard Wilson, records Mobile World Congress 2011 from the event floor. Check out the pictures from the major mobile technology event, highlighting the latest trends in technology and services.
- Author: Faisal Alani, Computer Weekly
- Date: 7 February 2011
Following CES, 2011 has been hailed as the year of the tablet. We round up some of the tablets aiming to top Apple’s iPad success. Contenders include the Motorola Xoom, Acer Iconia, Motion CL900 and the Lenovo LePad.
- Author: Alun Williams
- Date: 14 January 2011
To address the requirements of small, mobile applications Intel Atom processor package sizes have reduced dramatically in recent years leading to massive space savings. The same trend applies to chipsets and module standards.
- Author: Faisal Alani, Computer Weekly
- Date: 10 January 2011
Possible contenders for the title of Best Gadget of 2010, including the Fujifilm Finepix Real 3D W3, the HTC Evo 4G the Amazon Kindle, the Dell Streak, Microsoft's Xbox 360 Kinnect and the Apple iPad...
- Author: Alun Williams
- Date: 13 December
Pictures of the winners - Elektra Awards 2010, The European Electronics Industry Awards. The Lifetime Achievement Award went to Professor David May FRS and see photos of all the 19 award categories.
- Author: Alun Williams
- Date: 10 December
A taste of the Elektra Awards 2010, giving you another chance to recognise friends or colleagues, and see the party, at the London Lancaster Hotel in Lancaster Gate. The host for the evening was Hugh Dennis.
- Author: Alun Williams
- Date: 15 November
Munich's Electronica 2010, in picture form, with images from the show floor including a Beagle Board Video Wall, Inova automotive systems, the world's smallest wafer level LED, vacuum fluorescent displays, and the eRockit electric bike.
- Author: Faisal Alani, Computer Weekly
- Date: 26 October
Cutting edge electronics from the CEATEC show in Japan, from the likes of Tyco, Panasonic, and Fujitsu, including 3D peripheral vision for car drivers, augmented reality glasses, smart energy gateways and e-book readers.
- Author: Faisal Alani, Computer Weekly
- Date: 12 October
Microsoft lines up a collection of Windows Phone 7 smartphones: HTC 7 Surround, HTC 7 Mozart, HTC 7 Trophy, HTC 7 Pro, HTC HD7, Samsung Focus, LG Optimus and the Dell Venue Pro. We take a look at the latest Windows smartphones.
- Author: Alun Williams
- Date: 28 September
RIM replies to the Apple iPad with its own BlackBerry Tablet device - the BlackBerry PlayBook. Check out the spec and functionality of the new device along with the first screenshots.
- Author: Faisal Alani, Computer Weekly
- Date: 6 September
Following leaked pictures of the Samsung Craft, Faisal Alani looks at what 4G phones are out there, what's on the horizon and whether they'll make it over to the UK, including models from HTC.
- Author: Alun Williams
- Date: 6 September
To help mark our 50th anniversary, here is a look - decade by decade - at some of our front covers from times past. read some of the headlines and main stories from the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and 2010...
- Author: Alun Williams
- Date: 3 September
In celebration of Electronics Weekly’s 50th anniversary, Keithley Instruments has opened its photo archives to share some history on how it all began for the test and measurement specialist more than 60 years ago.
- Author: Faisal Alani, Computer Weekly
- Date: 2 September
The Samsung Galaxy Tab was unveiled today at IFA 2010 in Berlin. Here's a quick look at the tablet being billed as the first iPad killer, featuring Android 2.2, an AMOLED 7" screen, a 3.2MP camera, push email and Swype text input...
- Author: Alun Williams
- Date: 25 August
Atlantis Resources recently revealed the most powerful tidal turbine ever built, for use in Scotland between Orkney and the mainland. Time for a gallery of examples of tidal power systems...
- Author: Alun Williams
- Date: 12 August
Pictures of the electrical vehicles about to circumnavigate the planet in the Zero Race. Starting on 16 August in Geneva, competitors from Switzerland, South Korea, Germany and Australia will take around 80 days.
- Author: Alun Williams
- Date: 6 August
A visual overview of NI Week, the Graphical System Design Conference and Exhibition - pictures from keynotes, presentations and the show floor at the annual event that ran from 3-5 August 2010 at the Austin Convention centre.
- Author: Alun Williams
- Date: 3 August
Take a visual tour of LabVIEW 2010. NI has turned its attention to the software tool's compiler speed, and there is now the facility to integrate any third-party FPGA IP into LabVIEW apps.
- Author: Alun Williams
- Date: 29 July 2010
Intel steps up its interest in using optical fibres for high speed interconnects in processor-based systems, developing a prototype silicon-based semiconductor laser to support 50Gbit/s optical links in computers.
- Author: Alun Williams
- Date: 23 July 2010
Back to the future. To celebrate 50 years of "Britain's FIRST electronics newspaper", turn the pages of time. Read about radar tests, electron beam welding, aircraft safety systems, medium-sized computers, missiles, and much more.
- Author: Steve Bush
- Date: 1 July 2010
Rohde & Schwarz enters the oscilloscope market with 2GHz and 500MHz product families. Take a closer look at the launch of the RTO and RTM touch-screen devices.
The offspring of Intel and Nokia, MeeGo is a 'unified' Linux system that will run on multiple hardware platforms, such as mobile computers, netbooks, tablets, and mediaphones.
A look at Samsung's first entry into the electronic-book reader market, which brings handwriting functionality and Wi-Fi to the party.
Some popular posts from our Made By Monkeys blog, covering lithium ion batteries, Faraday cages, motion sensors, LEDs, adapters, and impossible objects...
Researchers at Georgia Tech construct the first self-powered nanometre-scale sensing devices that draws electrical power from mechanical energy.
A look inside the newly opened Bosch Reutlingen fab. When it reaches full design capacity in 2016, it will produce up to one million microchips a day, employing up to 800 people.
Some more useful Apple iPhone apps for electronics , including V=IR, Calc4, iResistor, SchemRef, E-Formulas, and the Electronics Toolkit...
A look at some choice multimeters from Fluke, Megger, Gossen Metrawatt, Amprobe, Metrix and Benning, with links to the products on the Web...
Some classic projects from our Gadget Master blog, including building LED cubes, QRSS detecting devices, MCU-operated tea makers, and surveillance cameras...
Computer-on-module (COM) technology is finding its way into many embedded apps. To accommodate power-saving technologies, the new Qseven COM definition was adopted...
From the Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona, awards range from Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough to Mobile Personality of the Year and Best Mobile Handset...
Rebuilding the oldest working computer in the world. Used from 1951 to 1957 at the Atomic Energy Reserach Establishment, it is being rebuilt at The National Museum of Computing ...
Take a visual tour of the much-anticipated Apple iPad device, unveiled by Steve Jobs. With 3G and Wi-Fi, it has a 9.7 inch LED-backlit, IPS display and features Multi-Touch technology ...
A round up of some of the slates, tablets, and UMDs on show - from the likes of Freescale, Qualcomm, Lenovo and Dell - at the Consumer Electronics Show 2010 in Las Vegas...
A look behind the scenes at Nexeon, a battery materials and licensing company developing silicon anodes for the next generation of lithium-ion battery....
A first look at the Snapdragon-based Nexus One - Google's own-branded phone based on the Android 2.1 (Eclair) mobile technology platform...
A round up of some of the apps that are available for Apple iPhone-owning engineers. From RPN scientific calculators to logic tables, unit converters and German translation tools...
Viewpoints from some leading industry figures, giving their views, comments or analysis on the downturn in 2009 and future trends and developments.
Behind the scenes at Swansea University's Welsh Centre for Printing and Coating, following the launch of the Plastic Electronics Strategy For Success: Realising the UK Potential.
A taste of this year's event, giving you another chance to recognise friends or colleagues, and see the party, at the London event.
Pictures of the winners - Elektra Awards 2009. The Lifetime Achievement Award went to Professor Sir Martin Sweeting OBE, FRS.
A look at some of the uses of Philips' flexible Lumiblade OLED lighting technology: chandeliers, desktop lamps, video art installations, and a comparison with fluorescent lighting...
From the HTC Hero and Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 to the Palm Pre and the Motorola DEXT. Not forgetting, the iPhone 3GS or the BlackBerry Storm 2...
A photographic look at ZiiLabs' ZMS-08, the first 1080p Hi-profile (Blu-ray quality) media processor for handhelds, which was designed in Surrey.
Ahead of next month's Elektra Awards 2009, we take a look back at the winners from last year's event, held in Munich as part of Electronica 08.
Ahead of next month's Elektra Awards 2009, we give a taster of last year's event, giving you a chance to recognise friends or colleagues at the Munich event.
An insight into the work of researchers at Georgia Tech, who have made a three-dimensional photovoltaic cell based on optical fibre. The conversion structure is dye-sensitised.
A detailed look at the ARM Cortex M3-based EFM32G range from the Norwegian microcontroller firm Energy Micro, claimed to be the most energy efficient MPUs available.
Some manufacturers of electronic goods still use lead, mercury, phthalates and Brominated Flame Retardants in products. This can affect the Third World where waste is sometimes dumped.
UK scientists directly measure magnetic charge moving in a solid, and prove the movement exactly parallels the flow of electric charge in ionic solutions.
A look at the latest oscilloscopes: the Agilent 9000, the LeCroy WaveSurfer 104Xs-A, the National Instruments USB 5132, the PicoScope 5000, the Tektronix 70000 and Yokogawa DLM6000.
The University of Utah uses a network of ZigBee transceivers to track people using radio tomography. We show pictures of the experiments and equipment.
A look at the key technologies featured at the IMEC 2009 Technology Forum, Leuven: Inchworm actuators, multicrystalline silicium solar cells, organic solar cells...
A retrospecive look at the key technologies highlighted at Intel IDF Fall 2009, San Francisco: 22nm, Core i7, Light Peak, Tangent Bay...
IBM Research aims to build a nanoscale DNA sequencer - a "DNA Transistor" - to help drive down the cost of personalised genetic analysis.
The Umicar Inspire solar car is set to compete in the World Solar Challenge (Australia, 24-31 October 2009), sponsored by semiconductor firm Microsemi.
QuantaSol's record-breaking solar cell is GaAs-based with multiple quantum wells to broaden its absorption spectrum, and is made in the UK.
The University of Michigan has used air and planar process fabrication to implement programmable control logic and memory with pneumatics.
A selection of photos of the Enigma, M209, Tirpitz, NEMA and Portex machines, to mark the 70th anniversary of Bletchley Park.
Ofcom's map of UK mobile coverage, for the O2, Orange, 3, T-Mobile and Vodafone networks. How does your provider measure up?
A tour of the large hadron collider at CERN, in Switzerland, covering the exhibition centre, the UA1 detector, bending magnets, OPAL, and more. Photos by Cliff Saran.