The federal government has announced plans to invest $188.5m in five Industry Growth Centres for: food and agribusiness; mining equipment, technology and services; oil, gas and energy resources; medical technologies and pharmaceuticals; and advanced manufacturing sectors. [ + ]

This Switchcraft & Conxall article focuses on practical workplace considerations that can sometimes be overlooked when specifying sealed or rugged connectors. [ + ]

IoT may have reached the hype peak but this decade-old term is a lot more than a buzzword.

ETSI’s standardisation group dedicated to low throughput networks technology has just released the first three specifications of an Internet of Things (IoT) network dedicated to low throughput communications.

With continuing developments in technology, a soldier's equipment must stay that much more ahead of these advances. Here are some big ideas for keeping the future soldier connected. [ + ]

Rapid-charging a battery and using it to do high-power, rapidly draining work may not be as damaging as initially thought. [ + ]

Cars speeding along a motorway set in a futuristic landscape populated by beings dressed in silver metallic suits used to be the stuff of comics and those deep into science fiction. However, some of those imaginative images could well become reality within the next 10 years as autonomous or driverless vehicles steer out of the laboratory and onto the roads.

Over 1200 electronics engineers and decision makers will come together this week for the annual electronics expo ElectroneX. [ + ]

When you consider how we are surrounded by technology that affects our daily lives, it is surprising that technology is not better understood and even embraced - especially by the young. [ + ]

Today's medical devices are far more than their hardware components. And even small mistakes can have big implications. [ + ]

Lithium sulfur cells have the potential to significantly reduce the weight of batteries. This lightweighting is of particular interest to the military as it can significantly reduce the weight burden on soldiers. [ + ]

The ongoing reduction in feature sizes used to manufacture integrated circuits has enhanced memory-chip performance by increasing per-chip storage capacities, lowering power consumption and improving the speed in which memory devices can store and retrieve data (ie, memory bandwidth), says IC Insights. [ + ]

It's that time of the year again - when the best minds in the electronics design engineering and manufacturing industry descend on Sydney for the annual electronics design and assembly expo, ElectroneX.

MIT and Harvard University researchers have developed reconfigurable robots that can fold themselves into arbitrary shapes. [ + ]

Researchers from Monash University have discovered that graphene oxide sheets can change structure to become liquid crystal droplets spontaneously and without any specialist equipment. [ + ]