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According to a new report from Research and Markets, the Human Machine Interface (HMI) market is expected to be worth US$5.86 billion by 2022, growing at a CAGR of 9 per cent between 2016 and 2022. The growth of this market is propelled by growing acceptance of industrial automation equipment in the manufacturing sector, evolution … Continue reading HMI market worth almost US$6 billion by 2022 →

An international driverless car firm will launch its Asia-Pacific headquarters in South Australia. UK-based business RDM Group, the company behind the LUTZ Pathfinder and Pod Zero vehicles, will establish an office in Adelaide, South Australia, adding to the city’s reputation as a hub for driverless car technology. The office, which will be situated in the … Continue reading UK looking to open driverless car manufacturing hub in Adelaide →

Packaging robots from Australia fitted with modems to allow remote troubleshooting are helping to streamline South East Asia’s surging food and beverage industry. HMPS is based in Adelaide, South Australia, and is one of the largest automation manufacturers in the country. It designs and develops bespoke automated machines to fill specific industry needs, including packaging, … Continue reading Robotics company is complete package for South East Asian food industry →

More than 40 rising stars of the global space industry are landing in South Australia next week for a five-week program to help propel their careers. It will be the sixth time since 2011 the University of South Australia has hosted the International Space University’s Southern Hemisphere Space Studies Program (SH-SSP). The 43 participants from … Continue reading Southern Hemisphere space program to tackle the final frontier →

If you’re the owner of a Galaxy Note 7 in the US and you want to keep it, tough luck. Samsung has issued a notice stating that it will be sending out a software update on Dec 19 that will basically kill the device with the exploding battery problem. The update will stop the device … Continue reading Samsung to hit kill switch on Galaxy Note 7 →

Australian company Quest Payment Systems has collaborated with Chinese-based Alipay to launch Alipay in Australian stores. Alipay allows Chinese nationals, tourists and students to pay for purchases in-store using their mobile phones, and in their own currency. Quest has designed the software to fully integrate with existing Point of Sale (POS) systems, providing a seamless experience … Continue reading Mobile payment system aimed at Chinese nationals →

Cyber security specialist, Trend Micro, has released its annual security predictions report, “The Next Tier – 8 Security Predictions for 2017.” The upcoming year will include an increased breadth and depth of attacks, with malicious threat actors differentiating their tactics to capitalise on the changing technology landscape. “Next year will take the cybersecurity industry into … Continue reading New attack methods employed by cybercrims in 2017 →

While the smartwatch market took a tumble in the latest quarter, the overall wearables market grew 3.1 per cent year over year in the third quarter of 2016 (3Q16). Total wearables shipments reached 23 million in the quarter, according to data from the International Data Corporation, (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker. Basic wearables, primarily … Continue reading Wearable market grows above three per cent →

  The Australian government is reviewing our electricity market to make sure it can provide secure and reliable power in a rapidly changing world. Faced with the rise of renewable energy and limits on carbon pollution, The Conversation has asked experts what kind of future awaits the grid. Storage is the word of the moment … Continue reading Despite the hype, batteries aren’t the cheapest way to store energy on the grid →

Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display has announced it has developed a new model of its IPS liquid crystal panel that achieves a contrast ratio of over 1,000,000:1, which is 600 times that of conventional liquid crystal panels. This high contrast ratio is achieved by integrating newly developed light-modulating cells that permit pixel-by-pixel control of backlight intensity. … Continue reading LC panel with 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio →

My home PC has bitten the dust. It is kaput. Stuffed. Broken. The LCD is done and dusted. The screen is black and pixelated. If I move the cursor up and down, the screen becomes normal…for a while, then it goes black again. Time for a new one. However, finances are a bit tight at … Continue reading Need a new laptop? Don’t go interest-free →

A factor working in favour of the global home automation market currently is its ability to promote energy conservation and manage overall energy consumption in a home. Rising at a robust CAGR of 26.3 per cent during the forecast period of 2014 to 2020, the opportunity in the home automation market is estimated to reach … Continue reading Double digit growth expected for home automation →

Oven Industries (OI) has announced expansion of its in-house printed circuit board protective capabilities by adding sophisticated precision conformal coating equipment to its processes. A conformal coating is a thin protective chemical coating (usually clear) that ‘conforms’ to the circuit board topology.  Its purpose is to protect electronic circuits from harsh environments that may contain … Continue reading OI adds protective coating to circuit boards →

RS Components has added more than 600 Amphenol FCI connector and cable assembly product lines to its portfolio. The additions expand the RS AFCI offering to over 1700 lines, including backplane and mezzanine connectors, power connectors, power supply accessories, board-to-board and wire-to-board connectors, I/O connectors, optical interconnect, cable assemblies, terminal blocks and flexible printed circuit … Continue reading Massive range of componentry after acquisition →

When the iPad was released in April 2010, champions of the form factor said tablets were going to change the landscape of personal computing forever. And they did. For a while. Six years later, and with a plethora of devices available, the tablet market is in decline. Market research company IDC latest research shows tablet … Continue reading Why is the tablet market shrinking? →

For those that are used to the vagaries of GPS technology, the latest Navman incarnation is not so much a revolution but more of a minor upgrade, writes Branko Miletic. Navman has once again upgraded its popular GPS offering. Known as the MY660LMT, this is a functional, useful and reliable GPS. That’s where the platitudes … Continue reading Review: The Navman MY660LMT GPS →

The term “artificial intelligence” (AI) was first used back in 1956 to describe the title of a workshop of scientists at Dartmouth, an Ivy League college in the United States. At that pioneering workshop, attendees discussed how computers would soon perform all human activities requiring intelligence, including playing chess and other games, composing great music … Continue reading Computers may be evolving but are they intelligent? →

IFS IoT Business Connector is a new product that claims to shorten the time from ideas to tangible benefits for customers’ IoT initiatives by providing an end-to-end architecture and the ability to turn IoT discoveries into actions. The product has been designed to de-risk and accelerate IoT initiatives in areas such as predictive maintenance, service … Continue reading IoT solution to drive digital transformation →

Microsoft has announced the introduction of Surface Studio, Surface Dial and a new Surface Book. Surface Studio is a new class of device that transforms from a workstation into a digital canvas, unlocking a more natural and immersive way to create on the thinnest LCD monitor ever built, claims the company. With an ultra-HD 4.5K … Continue reading Microsoft laptop’s new screen delivers more pixels than 4K TV →

Google announced the official release of its new voice-controlled digital assistant device, Google Home, earlier this month in the United States. At the center of the announcement was the launch of Google Assistant, the voice-controlled software that is built into Google’s new devices. Google Home is powered by this virtual helper, which is part of … Continue reading Google Home available for Australians from November →