In the field of technology, there are new discoveries and advances happening pretty much every day. However, who is really pushing the boundaries and shaping the world of tomorrow? Who is creating the tech that will define the way we live, work and communicate in years to come? 

We are always keen to champion startup companies within these pages. The innovation and technology they produce is helping to shape tomorrow’s world while they also drive job creation and the economy. However, they could be facing an uncertain future, as Joe Bush reports.

Are you looking for ways to speed up manufacturing or cut out costs? Let’s take a leaf out of Henry Ford’s ideology, here is good place to start. When the automobile pioneer built the first ever mass moving assembly line for his Ford Model T car, he set in motion a new benchmark for automation and design. Guest piece by Terry O’Reilly, Manager, NT CADCAM.

  If you’re attending this year’s productronica, make sure to stop by Electronic Specifier’s stand in hall A1, booth 531. At the stand you can enter a prize draw to win a Parallax ELEV-8 V3 Quadcopter Drone Kit. With a RRP of $500, it’s certainly worth the trip.

The Power Electronics Industry Collaborative (PEIC) has organised a special session on workforce challenges and opportunities facing the power electronics industry at the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Expo (ECCE). The event is being held 1st–5th, 2017 in Cincinnati, OH. Providing a set of perspectives on this timely industry issue, six expert panellists from PEIC member companies and affiliates shared their collective vision fo...

  For those unable to attend the Exponential Medicine 2017 conference, organised by Singularity University, you can check out the event’s live stream to tune in for a wide range of speakers, presentations, and announcements.

Steve Rogerson discusses whether LIDAR can continue its journey to become a sensor technology of choice for autonomous vehicles. LIDAR is not new. The light equivalent to RADAR uses pulsed laser beams and measures their reflections to determine the distance of objects, and it has been around since the 1960s. It was originally used for gathering information about clouds and shot to fame in 1971 when the Apollo 15 mission used it to map the su...

What happens when you combine adorable dachshunds and cool technology? The world’s first smartphone controlled LED dog vest is born. Named Disco Dog, the vest contains 256 LEDS which you can flash, create patterns, or have words scroll across it by using your smartphone. If your dog strays too far, a ‘Lost Dog’ message will flash up to alert passers by.

Steve Rogerson looks at some of the news that may have missed the front page. I gave a wide berth to one company’s stand at last month’s IoT Solutions World Congress in Barcelona. I decided I really didn’t want to find out what Climax Technology had to offer or even why they thought that would be a good name for a company.

Wayra UK, part of Telefónica Open Future_ is hosting a Wayra UK Demo Day 2017, on Wednesday 15th November. The event is the highlight of the year for Wayra, when its start-ups pitch their businesses to investors, entrepreneurs and the media. The winners of places on the company's 2018 programmes will also be announced.

  While we have been promised flying cars, living buildings and holographic displays, we may have to be content with 140 characters, Siri and Alexa for some time to come, suggests futurologist Professor William Webb in his latest book, ‘Our Digital Future’.

  Due to a growing shortage of spares for Royal Navy warships, submarines and helicopters the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has been removing parts from other ships, a report from the National Audit Office (NAO) claims.  

  Britain is weighing up the idea of switching to ‘green’ driving more than ever before, after the recent government announcement of plans to prohibit all petrol and diesel vehicles by the year 2040. New research from comparison website MoneySuperMarket has delved into the mind of the consumer to determine just how viable this switch is.

Forget vampires, ghouls and monsters under the bed. What’s really scary is the pace of technology hurtling towards us at 1,000mph. This Halloween, we have enough scary things to occupy us, without adding to the terror with fake blood and glow-in-the-dark vampire teeth. For a start we are on the way to cars that drive themselves as if handled by an invisible man. Not to mention, flying monkeys robots and windows that suck sola...

The 4th Industrial Revolution will change, and is changing the way we live our lives. Systems are now controlled and monitored by computer algorithms rather than by humans, and this is happening very quickly and across all industries.

  With the eighth instalment in the Saw franchise being released today, one fan has created his own remote controlled ‘Billy’ puppet. The Saw films focus on John Kramer (aka the Jigsaw killer) who sets a series of tests for his victims in which he tests their will to live. Rather than appearing in person to set his tests, Jigsaw uses the Billy puppet to explain the rules of the game.

Raph Crouan, CEO and Founder of Startupbootcamp IoT discusses how in the past 18 months there has been a clear rise in the number of startups working in the Industrial and B2B IoT space. Crouan believes that various reasons for this can be outlined, but here he just mentions two…

In the earlier parts of this article, we discussed the flying basics of flying a drone, getting airborne, the controls, hovering, changing orientation and changing direction. Find part 1 and part 2 here.

Dimitrios Spiliopoulos shares his thoughts on IoT and how it is centred around data, which scares many consumers...  "In the past few months I have attended many events, conferences and panels regarding Internet of Things (IoT) subjects, but I have also been discussing the topic with people who are not involved in IoT as professionals.

Quite a few exhibitions that we’ve been to lately have failed to live up to expectations – for the visitor, the lack of 'worth seeing' exhibitors and for the exhibitors a poor footfall on the day. Many theories are put forward for the gradual demise of business to business exhibitions and most include the rise of the internet and our mobile electronic 'leashes'. With these, we no longer need to leave our office to get the information ...