Time Is Running Out
Blog 11/30/2012 2 comments Tuesday, December 4 is your last chance to enter the Golden Mousetrap Awards. So, what are you waiting for?
Slideshow: GM Debuts Pure-Electric Spark
Captain Hybrid 11/29/2012 29 comments General Motors rolled out the battery-powered Spark EV, marking the first time it has introduced an all-electric car since it scrapped the infamous EV1 a decade ago.
Steer-By-Wire to Reach Production Vehicles
Captain Hybrid 11/28/2012 52 comments Taking a page from the world of aviation, Nissan Motor Co. plans to enter the "by-wire" world and control the steering of a future Infiniti vehicle with electronic signals.
Slideshow: Making Sense of Connected Sensors
Blog 11/26/2012 11 comments The Embedded Technology 2012 trade show held recently in Yokohama, Japan, focused on five smart technologies: energy, healthcare, agriculture, automotive, and transportation systems, as well as mobile and cloud computing.
Complete CNC Board Implementation
Guest Blogs 11/20/2012 7 comments A CNC motherboard architecture incorporates everything needed to build a small or midsized DIY CNC machine.
Engineers: It's BYOD for Life
Blog 11/19/2012 16 comments The concept of "bring your own device" to work is causing every type of business to do some restructuring for the sake of security.
Video: Pointing & Clicking Without a Mouse
Blog 11/16/2012 10 comments Microchip’s GestIC technology, which enables intuitive, gesture-based, non-contact user interfaces, is the heart of a range of end products, starting with the MGC3130.
Circuit Protection; Shock Tactics in Real-Time
Blog 11/16/2012 4 comments Littelfuse is putting its weight behind an initiative that promises to deliver real-time responses to engineers working on designs requiring circuit protection.
Could Pure Electrics Emit More Than Hybrids?
Captain Hybrid 11/15/2012 53 comments After studying the life cycle of electrified cars, researchers have concluded that hybrids with smaller batteries pollute less than pure EVs.
The Work Day of the Future
Blog 11/15/2012 27 comments In 20 years, what will the typical work day be like? That is the question the Working Worlds in 2030 project is trying to answer.
Embedding Power Everywhere
Guest Blogs 11/14/2012 17 comments What if you needed a wrench and found they were all the same size? Solar power systems face that problem now.
Slideshow: Apple iPad 4 Teardown
Blog 11/13/2012 17 comments Apple stunned reporters with the announcement of a fourth-generation iPad (or iPad 4), just over six months since the launch of the iPad 3.
Is Your Personal Device Personal?
Blog 11/13/2012 14 comments Do you use your personal mobile device in your plant, and does your company expect you to use your own iPad or smartphone for company use?
Want to Generate Energy? Go Fly a Kite
Blog 11/12/2012 25 comments Kite energy farms are more efficient, economical, and environmentally friendly than wind turbines, according to Nature Technology Systems.
Texture & Motion Sensor From Autodesk Research, an Innovative HMI
Blog 11/9/2012 5 comments Autodesk's Magic Finger is equipped with an ADNS 2620 low-resolution, high-speed optical flow sensor that senses X-Y motion, and a high-resolution AWAIBA NanEye micro RGB camera with modified HDNS-2100 lens that detects the surface being touched.
Slideshow: Pack Expo Packs 'Em In
Blog 11/8/2012 13 comments The world's biggest packaging show, Pack Expo in Chicago, provided a glimpse of the future of automated machinery and robotics.
Design News Product Spotlight
Blog 11/7/2012 2 comments In the Product Showcase section, we've posted some products from Microchip, Microsemi, and Cypress that deserve a little highlighting.
Slideshow: Apple iPad Mini Teardown
Blog 11/6/2012 20 comments Despite Steve Jobs' protestations that 7-inch tablets were "too big to compete with a smartphone; too small to compete with an iPad," on Oct. 23, Apple CEO Tim Cook introduced Apple's latest device, the iPad Mini.
Video: Pneumatics Power Scary Guy
Electronic News & Comment 11/2/2012 12 comments Bimba Manufacturing Co. gave a demonstration of the air-powered Scary Guy on Halloween at Pack Expo in Chicago.
Using almost 200 light-emitting diodes in the front and back of the new 2014 CTS, Cadillac designers are showing how LEDs can change the character of a vehicle.
We looked at a number of sources to determine this year's greenest cars, from KBB to automotive trade magazines to environmental organizations. These 14 cars emerged as being great at either stretching fuel or reducing carbon footprint.
From Dell / Intel® New Paradigms in Design Work Scott Hamilton, vertical market strategist for Dell Precision workstations, 5/2/2013 3
Early in my career, I worked as a draftsman and remember the days of drawing on vellum with numbered pencils and Mylar with plastic lead. This was a fun experience in the sense that I ...
I've been using workstations for more than 10 years and love finding ways to get more performance from my system. With demanding professional applications that require more power each ...
A lasting memory from my first job as an engineer in an auto assembly plant is standing on hard concrete at six in the morning, vending-machine coffee clutched in hand, listening to ...
A quick look into the merger of two powerhouse 3D printing OEMs and the new leader in rapid prototyping solutions, Stratasys. The industrial revolution is now led by 3D printing and engineers are given the opportunity to fully maximize their design capabilities, reduce their time-to-market and functionally test prototypes cheaper, faster and easier. Bruce Bradshaw, Director of Marketing in North America, will explore the large product offering and variety of materials that will help CAD designers articulate their product design with actual, physical prototypes. This broadcast will dive deep into technical information including application specific stories from real world customers and their experiences with 3D printing. 3D Printing is
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