Captain Hybrid Slideshow: Electric Car Batteries Get Bigger Charles Murray, Senior Technical Editor, Electronics & Test2/10/2012 7 To boost the range of pure electric vehicles (EVs), automakers need more onboard energy. To get more energy, they need bigger battery packs.
News iPad App Provides On-the-Go Product Data Beth Stackpole, Contributing Editor, Design Hardware & Software2/10/2012 4 What engineer doesn't want access to product data on the go? It's a need that shows no signs of abating, particularly in light of the increased use of outsourced design partners and ...
News Packaging Materials Grown From Mushrooms Ann R. Thryft, Senior Technical Editor, Materials & Assembly2/10/2012 8 It's one thing to create bio-based resins from food crop feedstocks. It's another to produce them using sugar cane trash and other plant waste to avoid competing with human food and ...
Mechatronics Zone How Many Calculus Classes Do Engineers Need? Jon Titus, Contributing Technical Editor2/10/2012 7 As an undergraduate, I took five semesters of calculus. The last semester on partial differential equations supposedly gave me a head start for grad school in my chosen field of ...
Captain Hybrid Chevy Volt's Big Problem Isn't Safety, It's Cost Charles Murray, Senior Technical Editor, Electronics & Test2/9/2012 53 In the wake of the Chevy Volt fire investigations, sales are down, and General Motors' CEO Dan Akerson is blaming the downturn on a spate of bad publicity.
Engineering Materials iPad Controls Flying Video Game Ann R. Thryft, Senior Technical Editor, Materials & Assembly2/9/2012 11 It costs less than a quarter of the $1,400 bill of materials estimated for the Japanese Defense Ministry's flying sphere. The battery gives it a running time of only 12 minutes. And ...
Blog MEMS in Sports Karen Lightman, Managing Director, MEMS Industry Group2/9/2012 13 MEMS in sports is not a new idea. Years ago, Freescale began demonstrating how MEMS could help analyze and improve golf swings by retrofitting accelerometers in the shaft of a golf ...
Electronic News & Comment Design News Radio Explores Medical Electronics Charles Murray, Senior Technical Editor, Electronics & Test2/9/2012 11 If you design medical devices and want to learn more about electronics, then join us on Design News Radio Tuesday, Feb. 21, at 2:00 p.m. EST.
Blog Slideshow: More Messy Engineering Desktops Brian Fuller & Alexander Wolfe2/8/2012 18 We messed up and you responded. Last fall, we posted a gallery of the messiest engineering desks, courtesy of our sister site, EETimes. EELife editorial director Brian Fuller, who ...
Top 5 Roadblocks to Digital Factory of the Future 10/24/2011 18 The digital factory of the future faces challenges of cost, compatibility and programmability as PLCs and PACs lurch towards a fulling integrated production cycle.
Thanks to embedded electronics, medical devices are getting smaller and smarter than ever. Pacemakers and implantable defibrillators are now able to call physicians. MRIs, CT scanners, and ultrasound machines are gaining mobility. And the venerable Band-Aid may soon be able to detect illnesses ranging from fevers to heart arrhythmias. On February 21, join Design News senior editor Charles Murray for a wide-ranging discussion, "Embedded Angles for Medical Products," which will explore the latest developments in medical electronics. The discussion will examine advances in medical device technology and offer an inside look at the embedded electronics behind it.
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