Design News - October 24, 2005

Cover Story

It's the stuff of science fiction: a bionic arm that slips onto the stub of an amputated limb and supplies all the movement and dexterity of the real thing. Movie characters since the days of Luke Skywalker have been attaching them, gazing hopefully, then wiggling their fingers in a modified victory dance to show that their artificial limbs were every bit as good as nature's original.

Departments

Ask
Ask The Search Engineer
Calamities
The Case of the Malicious Monitor
Cool Software Tricks
Create a Ramping File Programmatically
Designer's Corner
An embedded RTOS for 'do-it-yourselfers'
Expo
Electronics
Fluid Power
Motion Control
Flash
New and Notable Product Design
Gadget Freak
Donald Had a Serious Case of Red Eye
Mail
Readers Sound Off
My View
Software on eBay: What a Steal!
Rarely Asked Questions
Caveat Emptor!
Slant
The Potential of MEMS
Trend Watch
Plastics Look, Feel, And Act Their Best
16-bit Controllers
When a COTS Might Not Do
Weblog
The Anadromous Strain

Feature

Time to Take the Leap?
Deep Dive
Solid State Relays Increase System Reliability

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