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Grenoble startup Enhancia’s connected ring was a hit with international music icon Stevie Wonder, who tried it on at CES Las Vegas. When a musician playing a keyboard or synthesizer wears the ring, it produces additional sound effects according to preconfigured hand movements. “I like it. I love it,” said Wonder. Enhancia’s four founders, all […] >>

Bringing high-speed internet access to sparsely-populated rural areas can be a challenge when you only have access to non-contiguous frequency bands—unless you have Leti’s BF-OFDM technology, that is*! Leti just rolled out the technology in Scotland’s Orkney Islands on a test basis, where it was a success. Compared to the OFDM waveforms used in 4G […] >>

Why is it that the tiny screens on electronic devices like cameras and binoculars are flat when the devices’ lenses are curved? Researchers at Leti have been investigating the issue under the H2020 LOMID project. The goal is to come up with a one-inch-diagonal OLED display with a 45 mm curve radius by June. The […] >>

The Experimenta 2018 art and science fair will be held at Maison MINATEC on February 8–10, 2018. A total of 23 systems designed by scientists and artists will be on display this year and are expected to bring in the usual crowds. Visitors will also be able to take advantage of ten panel talks: three […] >>

Etienne Perret, a faculty member at Grenoble Institute of Technology and a research scientist at LCIS, an FMNT lab based in Valence, has just won a €2 million European Research Council Consolidator Grant for his chipless RFID tags. The grant will allow Perret to hire PhD candidates and post-docs and purchase antenna characterization equipment. The […] >>