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Gadget Freak Case #151: Warm up to Remote Energy Monitoring
Benson Houghland monitors his home's energy use from his Apple iPhone and now saves $200 a month on his power bill.
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Dassault to Acquire IBM's PLM Sales And Consulting Arm
IBM is selling its PLM sales and consulting arm to long-time partner Dassault in a...
Design Tools | Oct 29 2009 04:35 PM EDTNew Technology Yields Bioplastic Molding Blends
There are a growing number of realistic options for use of bioplastics for design...
Materials/Fastening | Oct 26 2009 09:19 AM EDTStudy Says EVs Won't Sell if Oil Prices Don't Rise
A new study from Lux Research contends that battery-powered electric cars and...
Electronics/Test | Oct 23 2009 03:56 PM EDTPlastic Radio Case Slashes Assembly Costs
Weight and assembly time are reduced with a patent-pending system of embedding a...
Materials/Fastening | Oct 21 2009 04:04 PM EDTCOMSOL Makes Multiphysics More CAD-Like
COMSOL Multiphysics Version 4.0 borrows from the familiar CAD tool users interface...
Design Tools | Oct 20 2009 12:05 PM EDTLatest Blog Postings
New Huntsman Thermoset Mimics Elastomers
A new thermoset system from Huntsman Advanced Materials provides elastomeric qualities, while retaining the benefits of epoxy infusion. One of the key attributes is the ability to use the material with carbon fiber systems and textiles due its low viscosity.
In addition to flexibility and excellent impact strength, the unique system also provides high transparency, brightness and UV resistance. ...
Posted in Engineering Materials | 2009-11-05 16:58:15 EST
The Incidence of the Light Bulb Going Off (or In?)
After being fed specifications in a piecemeal fashion, an engineer figures out how to meet a test spec by thinking inside the box
By Radcliffe Cutshaw, Contributing Writer
The project was to design a device to segment the upstream band used by cable modems. Cable modems are collision moderated: When two or more modems try to send at the same time, a collision is detected and both wait a random tim ...
Posted in Sherlock Ohms | 2009-11-05 16:12:46 EST
The instance of the Ruined Radar Relays
You know you’re in trouble when you start thinking that shooting the designer of a troublesome system is a serious solution
By Ken Herrick, Contributing Writer
I dredge up this investigative instance from 50 and more years ago. But even in today’s solid-state age I think it pertinent still. I was a field engineer assigned to the U. S. Navy overseas and there had been a continuing p ...
Posted in Sherlock Ohms | 2009-11-05 15:55:15 EST
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