Photo: University of California San Diego Researchers have made a low-cost smart glove that can translate the American Sign Language alphabet into text and send the messages via Bluetooth to a smartphone or computer. The…
Hardware & Materials
Chinese hardware giant opens Sydney complex
Chinese building materials and homewares company China Lesso Group Holdings is opening its first exhibition space in Australia today, as it makes a push into the local market. Lesso Home will open a 30,000sq m…
The Future For Smaller Automakers May Be As Tier 1 Suppliers To Apple And Waymo
In complex manufacturing ecosystems like aerospace and automotive, there is a hierarchical structure through the supply chain that runs from companies that produce the raw materials all the way to the companies that sell products…
Zortrax Opens Up to Third-Party 3D Printing Materials with New Software Profiles
Everyone loves flexibility when it comes to materials. The more different kinds of materials a 3D printer can print with, the better, in many people’s opinions. Zortrax already gave users plenty of material options, but…
Weekly poll: on-screen buttons on wider screens vs. hardware buttons
Have you ever wondered why TVs have a 16:9 aspect ratio? If you want to know the full story, this video does an excellent job of covering it. But that’s trivia now, like it or…
Kickstarter has a plan to free products from manufacturing limbo
If you have ever bought into a Kickstarter campaign and waited for what may have felt like forever to get what you paid for, you’re among the millions of victims of the dreaded “manufacturing complications.”…
Kickstarter has a plan to free products from manufacturing limbo
If you have ever bought into a Kickstarter campaign and waited for what may have felt like forever to get what you paid for, you’re among the millions of victims of the dreaded “manufacturing complications.”…
Dubai’s hardware and tools industry hits AED 5.07 billion value
Dubai’s hardware and tools trade was valued at AED5.07 billion in 2016, with the USA, China, Italy, Germany and India named as the Emirate’s top five trading partner countries of construction-related equipment and machinery for…
AptoVision Releases BlueRiver NT1000 Hardware Development Kit
AptoVision BlueRiver NT1000 hardware development kit The AptoVision BlueRiver NT1000 hardware development kit, the latest product in the company’s BlueRiver NT+ Series of AV-over-IP chipsets, is available now. BlueRiver NT+ chipsets “remain the world’s only…
Fire guts large hardware store in Samut Sakhon
Firemen hose down the fire at a commercial building selling construction materials and machine tools in Samut Sakhon’s Muang district in the early hours of Tuesday. (Photo taken from Sumet Chansa-ard Facebook page) SAMUT SAKHON…