Miniaturisation

A team from the University of Illinois and UC Berkeley has demonstrated a new cooling method that sucks heat out of electronics so efficiently that it allows designers to run 7.4 times more power through a given volume than conventional heat sinks.

Since its launch in 2007, Google Street View has been expanded to include things like coral reefs, hiking trails and the Amazon River. In its latest "off-road" adventure, however, Google Maps used miniaturized Street View cameras to visually map a model railway.

Researchers from Berkeley Lab and Columbia University claim to have created the highest-performing, single-molecule diode ever. Said to be 50 times better in performance and efficiency than anything previously produced, this device may pave the way for a range of powerful new nanoscale electronics.

Researchers have built a molecule-sized transistor that can reportedly control the flow of single electrons, paving the way for the next generation of nanomaterials and miniaturized electronics.

Microdisplay manufacturer, Kopin, has produced the world’s smallest VGA color-filter LCD, which measures just 0.27-inches diagonally and could be ideal for the digital single-lens-reflex (DSLR) cameras with high-resolution electronic viewfinders.

A team at the Delft University of Technology have developed a Micro Air Vehicle (MAV), which they claim is the smallest flying, camera carrying ornithopter in the world, measuring 10 cm from wing tip to wing tip.

It may have taken a while to get traction, but GPS appears to be the next technology destined for ubiquity. A new research report from Parks Associates indicates that by 2012, more than one in ten humans will buy a GPS-enabled mobile device each year.

BAE Systems has signed a $38 million agreement with the U.S. Army Research Laboratory to spearhead development of next-generation intelligence-gathering military robots

Promising a boost for encryption technology in mobile equipment, Toshiba’s tiny new physical random-number circuit generates random numbers at a data rate of 2.0 megabits a second.

TOMY Toy Corporation's i-SOBOT - a 6.5 inch high, fully articulating and bipedal robot - has been certified as the “smallest humanoid robot in production” by Guinness World Rec

August 20, 2007 Having already successfully built covert spy cameras into sunglasses, earphones, clothes buttons and screw heads, Taiwanese electronics corpor

July 6, 2007 Researchers at the University of Southampton have developed a kinetic energy generator which derives electrical energy from the vibrations and move