[Technology Report] What's Hot Today: Portable Communications
People love their portable communications devices, specifically their cell phone. Heading out the door, you pick up your wallet or purse, watch, car keys, and your cell phone. Other portable communications devices like laptops and PDAs with comm...
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Louis E. Frenzel
[Technology Report] What's Hot Today: Robotics
Fixed robots have proven themselves in industrial environments, but autonomous and semi-autonomous robots must operate in changing and often rugged climates. This requires more robust sensors and programming techniques. Environmental analysis takes...
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William Wong
[Technology Report] What's Hot Today: Homeland Security
Technology development and new-product cycles are always driven by the prospect of sustained or increasing demand, and homeland security is no exception. Each year since 2002, the U.S. government's budget for homeland security has escalated, and the...
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Ron Schneiderman
[Technology Report] What's Hot Today: The Big Picture
Politics and the economy aside (an impossibility in reality), the near- and long-term future of the electronics industry looks pretty good. In general, the outlook for virtually all major industry sectors is healthy from a fiscal standpoint. But with...
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Ron Schneiderman
[Technology Report] What's Hot Today: Home Entertainment
The pleasure of going to the movies or a concert is the sensory experience brought on by massive screens and booming sound systems. Thanks to the confluence of many technologies, you can recreate the ambience of the movie theater or concert hall at...
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Dave Bursky
[Technology Report] Tomorrow's Winners: Alternative Energy
With adequate funding, alternative energy will power your laptop and car and lower your home energy bill in the next 10 years. The energy crisis of the 1970s is a fading memory for aging baby boomers who once looked forward to a future...
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Wayne Labs
[Technology Report] Tomorrow's Winners: Smart-Home Technology
"Meet George Jetson. His boy Elroy. Daughter Judy. Jane, his wife." The theme song from the 1960s cartoon classic The Jetsons brings back memories, not only of the show itself, but also of that really "way out," futuristic house they...
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Dave Bursky
[Technology Report] What's Hot Today: High-Tech Vehicles
No, you won't hear that at an Indianapolis 500 race event any time soon. But there's little doubt that electronics technology stands to permeate even further throughout all kinds of automobiles of the future, from compacts to race cars, translating...
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Roger Allan
[Technology Report] Issue Overview
Welcome to our second annual The State of the Industry issue. Business within the electronics industry is percolating at a much stronger clip compared to this time last year. But for many design engineers, job worries prevail. Even as...
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Mark David
[Technology Report] Tomorrow's Winners: Biomedical Technology
Microelectronics and nanoelectronics technologies, combined with advances in chemistry, molecular biology, and medicine, will revolutionize diagnostics, patient monitoring, and medical procedures. The ultimate results, of course, are longer and...
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Roger Allan
[Technology Report] Tomorrow's Winners: Nanotechnology
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), a strong supporter of nanotechnology, calls it the next industrial revolution. Most scientists and engineers view it as a vastly more powerful technology than any they've ever seen. Billions of dollars are...
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Roger Allan
