418 results found for TechView: The Industry, displaying items 1 - 20
January 31, 2008 Distributed Design Teams Pose No Problem With Video Chatting
Since the rise of overseas outsourcing, video conferencing has been a popular way to do business with remote employees. Now, companies that make video chatting their primary business are making it easier for engineers to work with remote teammates. Typically aimed at casual chatters, these applications offer features like six-way video chat that could facilitate long-distance collaboration. And two companies are upping the bar for video chatting—SightSpeed...
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Kristina Fiore
December 13, 2007 New Year's Eve Ball Celebrates Its Centennial By Going Green
As the stroke of midnight approaches on December 31, the throng of revelers in New York Cityâ??s Times Square and billions of TV viewers worldwide will count down and gaze at a descending, brilliantly lit ball to mark the new yearâ??no surprise there. However, the redesigned ball may raise eyebrows as it shines twice as bright as last yearâ??s ball, using half the power.. With the tradition hitting the century mark, the eventâ??s organizers thought the ball ...
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Roger Engelke
November 15, 2007 Companies Revamp Read-Heads For Multi-Terabyte Storage
Hard-disk-drive (HDD) manufacturers are hard at work on ways to pack multiple terabytes (Tbytes) of storage onto a single device. At October’s Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Conference in Tokyo, two key players in the HDD market detailed their latest work in expanding storage capacity. Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (GST) revamped its readheads to make possible a 4-Tbyte drive, while Western Digital shaped current read-head technologies to deliver 3-Tbyte...
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Kristina Fiore
November 5, 2007 Tesla's Tests Confirm Roadster's 245-Mile Range
Tesla Motors created quite a stir when it announced its all-electric Roadster in 2006, with 250 miles per charge and 0- to 60-mph acceleration in 4 seconds. Critics were quick with their skepticism. But in September, the company put its Validation Prototype 1 (VP1) to the test, confirming these claims with only some slight modifications (Fig. 1). According to Tesla vehicle systems ...
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Richard Gawel
October 25, 2007 TI Wireless Tech To Connect Medical Devices With HealthVault
For diabetes patients, a quick stick of the finger will soon reveal more than blood sugar levels. With glucometers that can wirelessly connect to Microsoft's HealthVault online health information center, patients can upload their stats and download relevant medical advice anytime, anywhere. Texas Instruments has agreed to bundle software on some of its existing wireless products so companies can produce connected medical devices that will...
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Kristina Fiore
October 11, 2007 For Multicore Graphics Programming Support, Try LabVIEW 8.5
The best just keep getting better. Version 8.5 of National Instruments' Lab- VIEW graphical programming environment brings a lot to the design table, like enhanced multicore support including integration with FPGAs. Among its impressive improvements, NI has spruced up LabVIEW's multicore support. LabVIEW has supported multithreading for years, but the plethora of multicore platforms makes it more important for developers to be able to...
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William Wong
September 27, 2007 DARPA Chooses Urban Challenge Semifinalists
We're down to the semifinals, and the robots are ready. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected the 36 teams that will move on to the next round of the 2007 Urban Challenge, scheduled for October 26-31 at the former George Air Force Base in Victorville, Calif. The top 20 teams from this national qualifying event (NQE) will then participate in the finals on November 3. The program challenges teams to develop...
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Richard Gawel
September 13, 2007 Reviving Tesla's Wireless Power Initiatives
While scientists at the turn of the 20th century were experimenting with the wireless transmission of information, like radio, Croatian-born inventor Nikola Tesla had a grander vision (Fig. 1). He imagined the wireless transmission of power—to supply "light, heat, or motive power anywhere—on sea, or land, or high in the air," he told The New York Times in 1904. With the help of the October 2006...
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Kristina Fiore
September 1, 2007 What's New At The Boston Embedded Systems Conference
The Boston Embedded Systems Conference has always been smaller than its west coast cousin. Scheduled for Sept. 18-21 at the Hynes Convention Center, though, this show is slightly more system-oriented. And while it has fluctuated in size over the years, it has picked up new vendors like Microchip, so expect some interesting developments in Beantown. Conference regulars will show off their newest fare, like Versalogic, which will display its latest SPX modules (see...
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William Wong
August 16, 2007 Science Center Gets High-Tech Revitalization
One of the most popular exhibits at the "old" Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, N.J., was the "touch tunnel," where little hands felt their way through a lightless maze. After a two-year renovation, the center has emerged from the dark ages. Now, little hands take surveys and browse news stories on touchscreen interfaces. The $109 million redesign reinvents the science museum concept, as its digital exhibits are interactive and visitors use personal technology to stay...
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Kristina Fiore
August 2, 2007 Nanowires Get Bent Out Of Shape For New Technology
While most electronics research has its twists and turns, a project currently under way at the Georgia Institute of Technology offers more than its share of new angles. That's because the research is entirely focused on bending things. Georgia Tech researchers are investigating how simple bends made in nanowires, using a kind of molecular origami, can lead to a completely new class of electronic parts. "We're utilizing the coupling of piezoelectric and...
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John Edwards
July 19, 2007 OLEDs Will Be Everywhere—Even The Shirt On Your Back
A self-powered display— thin, flexible, and durable enough to be incorporated into clothing—is one of the goals of a $1.7 million international research project that aims to bring organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) to the mass market. The research consortium, known as Modecom (for Modeling Electroactive Conjugated Materials at the Multiscale), includes 13 engineering teams from nine universities and two companies. Over the next three years,...
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John Edwards
July 5, 2007 Bluetooth EMS Units Streamline Cardiovascular Intervention
Heart attacks start with a percolating cold sweat. Nausea ripples through your body. Your chest tightens and you can hardly breathe. Rationality and thought leave you when crippling pain in your stomach sends you helplessly to the floor as you struggle to stay conscious. Paramedics burst through your door and whisk you into an ambulance. They quickly administer an electrocardiogram (EKG) to monitor your heart. But when they get you to the hospital, the team...
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John Arkontaky
June 21, 2007 Researchers Take Silicon Out For A Spin
Over the last decade, spintronic technology has found its way into consumer electronics, used in devices like cell phones, hard drives, and RAM. Now, researchers at the University of Delaware have opened a door to making spintronics even more ubiquitous. They've demonstrated how to control electron spin in silicon, today's semiconductor of choice (...
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Kristina Fiore
June 7, 2007 OLED TVs Get Ready To Hit The Japanese Market
Major players in the electronics market have long been exploring ways to turn organic LED (OLED) displays into a potential successor to LCD screens for TVs. Last month, Sony became the first company to announce plans to start selling the ultrathin TVs in Japan within the year. The company's 11- and 27-in. OLED TV displays were a hit at the January Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and at a recent display forum in Tokyo, where participants were drawn to the 3-mm thick...
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Kristina Fiore
May 24, 2007 Catch A Wave At The Ultimate Wireless (And Vacation) Event
Hawaii is the hot spot for wireless conferences this summer, with five events spanning June and July. But if you can only afford one of these conferences, this year's IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) conference should be it. Over 10,000 attendees are expected to pack the Honolulu Convention Center when the conference, also known as the International Microwave Symposium, or IMS2007, hits during Microwave Week, June 3-8. Two speakers will...
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Louis E. Frenzel
May 10, 2007 Next-Generation Lithography Takes UV Light To The Extreme
As semiconductor processes head below 65 nm, scientists are scrambling to find a light source that will let fabs manufacture next-generation chips. Martin Richardson, an optics professor and director of the University of Central Florida's laser plasma laboratory, believes extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) light could replace the deep-ultraviolet lithography that's currently used to carve circuit patterns onto silicon wafers. "We must use a light source with a wavelength that's...
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John Edwards
May 10, 2007 Power Management Can Save The World
Former Vice President Al Gore calls it an inconvenient truth. But global warming represents an attractive opportunity for the power-management industry, which can employ its expertise in reducing energy usage to benefit consumers around the globe—as well as benefit the globe itself. The industry is now turning its attention to long-neglected white goods, which are the biggest users of electricity in homes. As developing regions of the world increase their demand for such...
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Marijana Vukicevic
May 10, 2007 Meet And Greet Your Peers At EDS 2007
Pack your golf clubs and order some fresh business cards. It's time to head for Las Vegas and this year's Electronic Distribution Show (EDS), scheduled for May 14-17 at the Paris and Bally's hotels. During the event, manufacturers of electronic components, test instruments, and accessories will have countless opportunities to meet with their distributors, representatives, and suppliers. In addition to the networking, EDS will have plenty of educational seminars on tap for...
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Richard Gawel
April 27, 2007 Your Thought Is Its Command
What good is a robot if you can't order it around with your thoughts? Rajesh Rao, a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle, has answered this question with an input system that can be used to control the movement of a humanoid robot with signals from a human brain. Rao and his students have developed a system that lets people tell a robot where to go and what to pick up merely by thinking about these actions. Donning a skullcap...
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John Edwards
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