Blog Slideshow: Energy Harvesters Lift Power From Surprising Sources Elizabeth Montalbano, Contributing Writer5/20/2013 1 As energy efficiency becomes more and more a concern for makers of electronics devices, researchers are coming up with new ways to harvest energy from sound vibration, footsteps, ...
Blog Video: 'A Boy & His Atom' Cabe Atwell, Contributing Editor, Design Hardware & Software5/20/2013 0 IBM has been manipulating particles in the atomic scale since the beginning of the 1980s. They created a machine called a Scanning Tunneling Microscope to study atomic magnetism ...
Sherlock Ohms Fuse Holder Mismatched to Fuse Howard Gorin 5/20/2013 1 Where I used to work, there was a photo typesetter. This machine would regularly blow a 20-amp fuse, resulting in a service call, lost time, and lost money. The service technician ...
Captain Hybrid It's Still About the Battery Charles Murray, Senior Technical Editor, Electronics & Test5/17/2013 13 Days after Consumer Reports declared that the Tesla Model S might have been the "best car ever," Tesla Motors' stock surged 57 percent. While the stock was soaring, financial ...
News Slideshow: Is Tesla's Model S the Best Ever? Charles Murray, Senior Technical Editor, Electronics & Test5/16/2013 37 Tesla Motors' Model S sedan "blew away" its $90,000 gasoline-burning competitors in a recent review and may be the best car Consumer Reports has ever seen, the magazine recently said.
Electronic News & Comment Slideshow: 22 More People You Didn't Know Were Engineers Charles Murray, Senior Technical Editor, Electronics & Test5/15/2013 23 In April, we 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 -- ...
Blog We Know What the IoT Is, but How & When It Arrives Is Unclear Richard Nass, Brand Director5/15/2013 12 Many of the topics we cover here at Design News have different meaning to different people. I often use the phrase, "Ask 10 different people about XYZ, and you'll get 10 different ...
Blog Do We Really Need an App for That? Jennifer Campbell, Executive Editor5/15/2013 25 I'm a social media junkie who loves reading about and testing new technology. I'm also the mother of an almost 2-year-old. When I first saw the Huggies TweetPee, I immediately ...
Made by Monkeys The Messed Up RF Generator Steve Lindberg 5/15/2013 6 I appreciate products that possess exquisite quality. One of my first was a synthesized RF generator. I have never seen a manual for this piece, but I managed to get it working ...
Sensors Help Shrink Medical Devices 5/13/2013 0 Miniaturization allows for the use of sensors in medical applications where they couldn’t previously be used.
Slideshow: Platinum Temperature Sensor Technology 5/6/2013 1 This article explores the inherent properties of platinum temperature sensors, the types of platinum RTD elements available, and typical applications.
M2M Gives Eyes & Ears to the Enterprise 4/12/2013 4 Just as mobile computing has transformed the lives of consumers, machine-to-machine telemetry is revolutionizing business operations in every field, from healthcare to manufacturing to transportation.
Changing the Look & Feel of Factories & Industrial Environments 3/22/2013 3 When plant managers evaluate the advantages and drawbacks of wired versus wireless networks, they need to consider cost savings, maintenance issues, ease of installation, and configurability, uptime, and security.
Slideshow: Automakers Roll Out Dream Cars 3/11/2013 57 Nevermind all the talk of fuel efficiency mandates. Judging by product rollouts at recent auto shows, some consumers still want racy, stylish cars.
Slideshow: Vending Machines Undergo a Complete Overhaul 3/7/2013 9 Exciting changes are coming to vending technology, from telematics and new user interfaces to mobile payments and high-precision automation. Coke, Best Buy, and Starbucks are already on board.
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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