Slideshow: LEDs Gaining Traction in Vehicles
Electronic News & Comment 5/23/2013 4 comments With LEDs dropping in price virtually every year, automakers have begun employing them, not only on luxury vehicles, but on entry-level models, as well.
LEDs at Heart of Cadillac CTS 'Signature'
Electronic News & Comment 5/22/2013 25 comments 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.
Slideshow: 22 More People You Didn't Know Were Engineers
Electronic News & Comment 5/15/2013 26 comments We recently posted an online slideshow called, “18 People You Didn’t Know Were Engineers.” Within hours of its publication, readers began to suggest names of other luminaries -- astronauts, politicians, athletes and actors -- who were educated or had worked as engineers.
Slideshow: Aston Martin Puts Hydrogen on the Race Track
Electronic News & Comment 5/9/2013 26 comments In yet another sign that hydrogen is creeping into the consciousness of global automotive designers, sports car maker Aston Martin plans to run a hydrogen-fueled vehicle in a 24-hour Grand Touring race later this month.
How Safe Is Safe Enough?
Electronic News & Comment 5/6/2013 53 comments One of the ugly truths of engineering is that life has a price. Cars, buildings, power plants, and industrial machinery can always be made safer for a cost, but manufacturers are at the mercy of the market.
Front-Seat TV Unwelcome in US Auto Market
Electronic News & Comment 5/2/2013 39 comments Front-seat television technology is beginning to creep into the worldwide automotive market, but regulators, automakers, and suppliers say it’s unlikely to take hold in the US.
Slideshow: Profs Say Fukushima Plant Passed Ultimate Test
Electronic News & Comment 4/26/2013 158 comments The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear powerplant performed beyond its best expectations after being struck by a mammoth earthquake and a 40-ft-high tidal wave in 2011, experts said.
Gesture Control Coming to a Television Near You
Electronic News & Comment 4/3/2013 36 comments A new technology will enable couch potatoes to change channels, adjust the volume, rewind a movie, browse the Internet, or control myriad other functions with simple physical gestures.
Chip Suppliers Target Vehicle Complexity
Electronic News & Comment 4/2/2013 21 comments Chip makers are hoping a new breed of microcontrollers will begin laying the foundation for a solution to one of the auto industry’s most vexing design problems -- electronic complexity.
Slideshow: Electronics Add Glitter to New Rolls-Royce
Electronic News & Comment 4/1/2013 21 comments Rolls-Royce is rolling out a new fastback-style vehicle that cranks out 624 HP, goes from 0 to 60 in 4.4 seconds, and employs more electronic technology than any vehicle in company history.
Boeing Should Never Say Never
Electronic News & Comment 3/20/2013 49 comments Boeing's insistence that its new 787 battery design eliminates the possibility of fire may pacify the average consumer, but it hasn't made engineers happy.
Smart Basketball Analyzes Shooting, Dribbling
Electronic News & Comment 3/19/2013 32 comments InfoMotion Sports Technologies' 94Fifty can measure the arc and backspin on a shot, or the speed and force of a player’s dribbling.
'Internet Snacking' Coming to GM Vehicles
Electronic News & Comment 3/6/2013 53 comments In the auto industry's biggest move yet to build connected cars, General Motors plans to install 4G data modems on millions of its future vehicles, enabling them to serve as Internet hotspots.
MD&M Show Highlights New Technologies
Electronic News & Comment 2/20/2013 4 comments From sensors to electronics to additive manufacturing systems, the recent Medical Design & Manufacturing Show in Anaheim demonstrated thousands of new and existing products.
Futurist: 3D Printing Will Pave the Way for a New Era of Manufacturing
Electronic News & Comment 2/14/2013 25 comments Future manufacturing will be shaped by the consumer's desire for individually tailored products that can be created quickly and on the spot, a futurist told an audience of engineers at this week's Medical Design & Manufacturing West Show.
Electronic Innovation Will Drive Medical Design
Electronic News & Comment 2/13/2013 18 comments Most of us are only vaguely aware of it, but there's a mini revolution taking place in the medical device industry that's going to change the way we monitor our health in the coming decade.
Are Automotive 'Black Boxes' Secure?
Electronic News & Comment 12/21/2012 22 comments The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration proposed a rule this month ordering automakers to put so-called "black boxes" in all new vehicles by late 2014, but some experts are concerned that the new rule won't protect the security of the data stored inside.
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.
Can You Make the Popinator Work?
Electronic News & Comment 10/11/2012 39 comments The maker of a popcorn-launching machine has a design task for dyed-in-the-wool gadget freaks.
Battery Makers Roll Out Grid Storage
Electronic News & Comment 8/9/2012 29 comments Intermittent power sources, such as wind and solar, will need a backup to balance utility supply against consumer demand.
Slideshow: Smarter Cars Paving Road to Intelligent Highways
Electronic News & Comment 5/8/2012 42 comments Experts say that the intelligent highway will save more lives than seat belts, airbags, and electronic stability control. For sheer lifesaving capacity, nothing in the history of the auto industry will come close to it.
Multicore Gaining Momentum in Automotive Powertrains
Electronic News & Comment 4/27/2012 7 comments In a bid to help automakers cut the fuel consumption and emissions of next generation engines, Freescale Semiconductor is rolling out a three-core microcontroller said to boost computing performance without drawing more power.
Slideshow: Top Medical Tech Engineering Innovations
Electronic News & Comment 3/30/2012 21 comments Bionic limbs, innovative infusion systems, and transcranial doppler brain scanners are just some of the innovations engineers are bringing to the exploding medical design arena.
Design News Radio Explores Medical Electronics
Electronic News & Comment 2/9/2012 24 comments Medical device designers who want to learn more about electronics should join us at Design News Radio on Tuesday, Feb. 21, at 2:00 p.m. EST.
LEDs Light Up Dodge Dart
Electronic News & Comment 2/6/2012 44 comments The new Dodge Dart uses 152 LEDs to form a ruby red "racetrack" around the trunk, tail lights, and rear decklid.
Cadillac's ATS Cuts Mass 1 Gram at a Time
Electronic News & Comment 1/24/2012 31 comments A massive engineering effort has produced a lightweight, high-strength body structure that will let Cadillac enter the compact luxury market segment this year.
Design News Radio: Microcontrollers for Mechatronics
Electronic News & Comment 1/19/2012 7 comments If you design mechatronic systems and want to learn more about using microcontrollers (MCUs) in your applications, listen to our Design News radio program on Tuesday, Jan. 24, at 2:00 p.m. EDT.
Smartphones Pose More Danger to Drivers
Electronic News & Comment 1/16/2012 39 comments Engineers who have equipped cars with cameras and collected millions of miles of data on crashes say that the key to distraction is visual, not cognitive.
Would Cellphone Ban Secure Car Safety?
Electronic News & Comment 1/6/2012 67 comments Automakers continue to expand the scope of electronic "infotainment" features, despite government pressure to ban them and deem them unsafe.
Ethernet for Vehicles Advances
Electronic News & Comment 12/14/2011 23 comments Ethernet in the car, once an unthinkable concept for the automotive industry, has been gaining momentum lately.
Bill Gates Funds 'Big Battery' Startup
Electronic News & Comment 12/13/2011 55 comments One of the great underappreciated issues of renewable energy isn't whether seagulls are banging into turbine blades, but whether intermittent sources of power have any real value in a world without energy storage.
Top 5 Automotive Trends of 2011
Electronic News & Comment 12/6/2011 24 comments In a year when Detroit launched a comeback, the real news in the automotive world came from Washington, D.C.
Cadillac CUEs In-Car Entertainment
Electronic News & Comment 12/1/2011 29 comments Cadillac's CUE is an important addition to the infotainment scene, but its consumer-driven design process may turn out to be more important than the product.
Engineer's Toy Becomes a Profession
Electronic News & Comment 11/30/2011 46 comments Paul and Carol Flack started Bridge Street Toys to resurrect the engineering toys he remembered from his childhood.
Rockwell: Ethernet's Momentum in Automation Is Unstoppable
Electronic News & Comment 11/22/2011 22 comments Ethernet's move to the industrial automation space is gaining momentum, as engineers make the conversion from the fieldbuses of the 1990s to networks that unify the front office and factory floor.
With LEDs dropping in price virtually every year, automakers have begun employing them, not only on luxury vehicles, but on entry-level models, as well.
The 3D printing revolution seems to have a knack for quickly moving technology ahead by way of collaborative effort and even a little friendly competition -- all of course in the name of scientific advancement.
Advantech has launched a new series of motion-control I/O modules to meet the increased demands that come with more distributed industrial systems that require control of a growing number of axes and devices.
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.
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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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