• Steel Heart- Artificial Heart Prototype

    www.suprocktech.com Let's face it, we eat too many bacon cheeseburgers. Heart health is a leading medical issue in developed countries. However, technology development is slow to bring new ideas into the field of pump technology that can be us
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  • Raw Video: Marshmallow Launch at the White House Science Fair

    The President meets an 8th grader named Joey from Phoenix, AZ at the White House Science Fair and the two launch a marshmallow across the State Dining Room of the White House with Joey's science project - an air cannon.
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  • Screaming Circuits finds silver lining in economic downturn

    The economic downturn has had an upside for some industry segments. PCB prototyping service Screaming Circuits has seen business climb steadily since it's founding in 2003 as more companies have cut back staff and resources, stretching engineering...
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  • Soft Robot Walking and Crawling

    Harvard researchers have created a soft robot inspired by animals like starfish and worms. Read more: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/military-robots/freaky-boneless-robot-walks-on-soft-legs
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    Bioengineer Markus Covert discusses his pursuit of a whole-cell computational model of a living organism.
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  • Dyson car challenge

    Dyson engineers constantly look to develop designs that do more with less. So a challenge was set: to create the fastest go-kart using a few Dyson spare parts and all the torque they could eke out from one of our handheld motors. After a few eveni...
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  • Wireless Technology: Where we’ve been and where we’re going

    Following is a New Tech Press interview with Fanny Mlinarsky, President of octoScope. We discuss next generation OFDM and MIMO techniques and how they are evolving from the LTE and 802.11n technologies to the emerging technologies being developed for…

  • Perspective, not funding or focus, may be what education lacks

    By Lou Covey Editorial Director, Footwasher Media Is learning from the past the key to the future, as philosopher Georges Santayana believed? A former Lockheed-Martin CEO thinks so. In a recent Wall Street Journal article , Norm Augustine, an IEEE Fellow…

  • RTOS market in turmoil?

    By Ann Steffora Mutschler Senior Correspondent, New Tech Press With engineers clamoring for all things Android and open-source, the RTOS market is experiencing some major changes – although that depends on whom you ask. A relatively new entrant to the…

  • Microchip unveils new PIC 32-bit MCUs

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  • Commentary: Misconceived, missed opportunities in FPGAs

    By Jeff Jussel Senior Director of Global Technology, Newark/element14 A recent post in John Cooley's DeepChip bemoaning the demise of FPGA-based tool startup GateRocket ends with a familiar refrain: “It doesn’t pay to make EDA tools for FPGA because engineers…

  • S2C bridges HW prototyping and SW development

    As FPGAs have become larger their use as a prototyping tool has become more diverse, including using multiple processors in a single design and system. And the business of FPGA prototyping has grown with that ability. What began as a means of prototyping…

  • FPGA verification must address user uncertainty for prototyping, system validation

    By Loring Wirbel Senior Correspondent, Footwasher Media The recent expansion and diversification of the FPGA verification market bears a certain resemblance to the ASIC verification market of 20 years ago, though beset with opposite challenges, thanks…

  • Can we survive the loss of Steve Jobs?

    By Lou Covey Editorial Director, Footwasher Media In the outpouring of grief over the death of Apple founder Steve Jobs has been an underlying meme of concern regarding not just the future of Apple, but the potential for disaster in the semiconductor…

  • im-PART-ing Knowledge, Understanding Component Engineering Series Part 2: Resistors

    By Douglas Alexander and Brian Steeves, CE Consultants Special to Footwasher Media http://www.componentsengineering.com My first up close and personal experience with a resistor was a 9V transistor radio in the middle of a Dodgers baseball game in 1959…

  • A real Job's bill: Drive technology innovation & save us from ourselves

    By Bernard Gizzi, Eclipse Design Technologies Special to Footwasher Media This month we lost an industry pioneer and a master innovator who created wealth for the masses. Steve Jobs had the knack for taking technology, with all its 1’s and 0’s, innate…

  • Altera looks at FPGA Verification and Prototyping

    FPGA's have become as complex at Gate Arrays and verification of FPGA-based systems has become just as difficult and time consuming as their standardized cousins. Every year, there are new companies that claim to make that verification process simple…

  • Little Rolling Robot Transforms Into Helicopter

    Learn more: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-software/little-rolling-robot-transforms-into-helicopter
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  • Ted Sargent Describes His Team's Tandem Solar Cell Breakthrough

    Ted Sargent is a Professor in The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. He's also the Canada Research Chair in Nanotechnology. In a recent paper published in Nature Photonics, he describ...
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    "Design with Efficiency: Toward a Streamlined Process for Electronics-Industry Design Engineers"

    Download this informative study from Technology Forecasters now. “Design-with-Efficiency: Toward a Streamlined Process for Electronics Industry Design Engineers” Electronics design engineers are burdened with lengthy and disparate processes comprising…

  • Chinese Quadruped Robot Takes Its First Steps

    Learn more: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/chinese-quadruped-robot
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  • Hexapod Robot Ready To Conquer Extreme Obstacles

    Kondo Robot announced a new, low cost, hexapod robot design with surprising flexibility, performance, and customizability. The robots unique leg design incorporates springs and linkages only requiring two servos per leg while improving the hexapod...
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  • How Start-ups are Changing Everything

    Me (in the Grey Shirt) w/ the other Founding members of the PopShop co-working Space, one of the many places where the way we work is fundamentally changing. Entrepreneurship is a fancy word. It's frequently thrown around and abused, generally being used…

  • E-Paper watch from Pebble Technology sets Kickstarter record

    Engineers become millionaires in less than 30 days; learn from their example. Pebble Technology has recently entered into the Kickstarter hall of fame with their E-Paper watch gaining over $10,000,000 US in funding after only 26 hours of being put on…

  • Steve Jobs and his influence

    One of my favorite pictures of Steve Jobs. Here he is demonstrating the iPhone 4 to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on June 23rd, 2010. I have never been a huge fan of Apple Computer's products or the lifestyle philosophy that comes along with them…