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Table of Contents

Issue date: February 6, 2006


Features
Composite Decisions
How do Airbus engineers decide which materials to use? They let the best materials compete against one another.
Joseph Ogando, Senior Editor

2005 Gadget Freak of the Year


Pump Virtually Gets its Shaft
Jon Titus, Contributing Editor

Slack Variable
Slack Variable Episode IV: "GEEK ENVY"
Slack Varible VS. The Segway Samurai
Story: Karen Field. Art: Daniel Guidera
Departments

Expo
ADC

Air cylinder

Alignment kit

Aluminum capacitors

Bio-additive

Brushless motor

Brushless motor control

Connectors & mounting rails

DC-DC converters

Digital oscilloscopes

Digital panel meters

Enclosures

Engine filter system

Filters, breathers, mufflers

Flow switch

Grounding device

Hydraulic hose

Interactive advantage center

Long bore cylinders

Marking coil housing

MOSFET solution

Motor reverser

Mounting option

Power supplies

Pressure transducers

Range

Rolling bearings

Serial communication

Single alignment kit

Stock lifters

Tactile switch

Torque limiters

Transducer

Vacuum pumps

Vibration damper


Flash
PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORKING

POWER OVER ETHERNET

POWERLINE COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK

SATELLITE NETWORK

ZIGBEE WIRELESS NETWORK


Mail
Readers Sound Off


Trend Watch
Galil Accelera Series

In the Loop

Laser Measurement Systems for Obstacle Detection and More

PMD Ion Digital Drive

Quicksilver SilverDust IGB

Riegl's LMS-Z420

Sick Optic's LMS 291
Columns

Calamities
The Case of the Spastic Sprinkler


Cool Software Tricks
Dynamic Motion in a Sketch With SolidWorks


Designer's Corner
THK unveils tiny LM guide


Gadget Freak
Evil Scientist or Rocket Science? You Decide.


Green Scene
China's RoHS—Vague and Obstructive

UK Site Offers Due Diligence

X-ray Screening for RoHS Compliance


My View
Join the Conversation at Design News!


Rant
Recalibrating Expectations


Tips from Titus
Choose Converters with Care


Web Log
Is It Really So Bad?


Engineering News

Engineering Bugaboo: Software Interoperability

High-Speed Automotive Databus May Reach Production in 2006

Air control takes the bus

Mag bearings dampen vibration


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