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Today came the news from the ASX that Altium shares have been put on a voluntary trading halt: “Pending an announcement by Altium in relation to a proposed capital raising by institutional investors” Now, this is very interesting indeed for several reasons: Altium have not taken investment since they originally …

In the last day there has been some buzz about the uBeam wireless energy charging device, which of course, like all great new inventions, does not actually exist yet, it  just needs the magic input of money. It ticks all the media story hype boxes though – designed by a …

I’ve had a lot of people ask me to comment on THIS project in Kickstarter. It was supposed to be a rechargeable battery based on Lithium Ion Capacitor technology. Ok, cool, nothing wrong with that, sounds good. A guy has mated a Lithium Ion Capacitor with a small custom regulator …

I’ve had quite a few people ask why I am not selling my µCurrent through international distributors like I did last time. Well, that’s a good question, and I’ll answer that as well as breaking down the economics of selling your own hardware product, what price you should sell your …

So I just got my new 8M/8M VDSL2 office internet installed in the lab (see video). And speedtest.net looked great of course, and everything seemed to work a treat, my connection seemed quick, and a quick youtube speed test showed it to be much faster than my old ADSL2+ connection …