Bharti Airtel has come up with a festive offer where it will be giving a cashback benefit of Rs 2,000 to its prepaid and postpaid users on upgrading to a new 4G smartphone. The cashback will be credited to the customer’s account in the mobile app, MyAirtel, in the form of 40 coupons worth Rs … Read more
Engineers at the University of British Columbia have developed a new ultrasound transducer, or probe, that could dramatically lower the cost of ultrasound scanners to as little as $100. Their patent-pending innovation — no bigger than a Band-Aid — is portable, wearable and can be powered by a smartphone. Conventional ultrasound scanners use piezoelectric crystals … Read more
By stacking and connecting layers of stretchable circuits on top of one another, engineers have developed an approach to build soft, pliable “3D stretchable electronics” that can pack a lot of functions while staying thin and small in size. The work is published in the Aug. 13 issue of Nature Electronics. As a proof of … Read more
