consumer electronics

Depth sensors like the ones used in Microsoft’s Kinect system perform well in a...

The lithium-ion battery packs for certain Toshiba laptop computers can overheat, posing burn and...

Apple unveiled a new robot at a town hall event in Cupertino earlier this week. The robot, nicknamed Liam, takes apart obsolete electronic devices, strips them down, and sorts components so that the material they collect can be reused to make new devices.

Panasonic is recalling lithium-ion battery packs that were sold in certain CF-S10 Series laptop computers because the pose a safety hazard. Conductive foreign material was mixed into the battery cells during manufacturing, posing a risk of fire.

This month in New York, the public is invited to view an exhibition that...

A new study proves that graphene—the conductive material that has been praised for being...

The United States Patent and Trade Office has granted Apple a patent for “flexible...

In many ways, graphene seems to be the cure-all solution for anything electronic, and it’s...

This week, Caterpillar unveiled a rugged smartphone with a built-in thermal camera at Mobile World Congress 2016 in Barcelona. To create the phone, Caterpillar, a brand that is better known for heavy construction equipment than consumer electronics, partnered with Flir, a company that specializes in thermal imaging cameras.

The latest rumors about Apple’s next iPhone reveal that preventing interference is higher priority than ever before. Korea’s ET News reports that Apple will apply electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding to individual chips in the forthcoming iPhone 7. Previous versions of the iPhone have included shielding on the entire circuit board, and then the Apple Watch introduced shielding on an individual chip.