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Cambridge Consultants demonstrates a world first in radio design Technology innovation firm Cambridge Consultants has successfully completed initial trials of the world’s first fully digital radio transmitter – a turning point in wireless design and a real enabler for the ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) and 5G technology. It’s a radio built purely from computing power, using the same familiar digital technology you’d find in a computer microprocessor in your home or office. Unlike ‘software-defined radio’ (SDR), it’s not a mixture of analogue and digital components – for the first time, the radio is completely digital, which can enable new ways...

A corporation named Wherify Wireless, Inc.(1) has just started selling a very special, new-style wristwatch. Among other interesting attributes, this watch can be locked on the wrist for "safety." The new device is a lot more than just a wristwatch, though. As with the newer Timex and Casio watches, the Wherify watch displays Global Positioning System (GPS) information. It also has the ability to synchronize with the nation's atomic clock system and so not only keeps accurate time but also resets itself anytime the wearer enters another time zone. More interesting yet, the watch is actually a transceiver. That is,...