Sensor Technology

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Increasingly I’m seeing more biology being incorporated into electronic devices as companies merge traditional electronics with synthetic biology to create…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As military organisations around the world field hypersonic missile systems researchers might have found a new way to identify and…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF All cancers are different and understanding how they interact with one another and their environment can make the difference between…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If human consciousness taps into or relies on the weirdness of quantum mechanics then it’s conceivable it could span the…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Increasingly you are being identified using your biometrics – everywhere you are online and offline – so this camera takes…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Increasingly we’ll be able to spray all sorts of things onto surfaces, from sensors and compute, so solar panels which…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF There are times when you want to know exactly how a sound is being formed and how its propagating around…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Our ability to see smaller and smaller objects, even smaller than atoms, is helping us create new materials and understand…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As EEG devices get smaller suddenly you’ll see more devices emerging that can read your brainwaves and then analyse them…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In the next 20 years airline passenger numbers are expected to double, and security is a chokepoint at every airport….

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF At 5 million fps you can record the movement of individual molecules, and change science – and other stuff.  …

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF What if you could change your genes with your smart watch? Or just using electricity change your eye colour? That’s…