Consumer Electronics
Advancing From Excel Spreadsheets to Omnify Empower PLM
May 24, 2013 1:04 pm | by Apogee Electronics | Articles | CommentsApogee Electronics Corporation is a manufacturer of digital audio hardware systems and related accessories for audio professionals and musicians around the world. Founded in 1985, Apogee has pushed the envelope of digital audio quality and established themselves as a key innovator in the field of professional digital audio.
A Handheld Biosensor
May 24, 2013 10:09 am | by Illinois University | Videos | CommentsProfessor Brian T. Cunningham and his graduate students demonstrate their development of using a smartphone camera as a high resolution spectrophotometer.
New Mobile App for Anytime, Anywhere Access to Molex Solutions
May 23, 2013 4:20 pm | by Molex Incorporated | Molex Incorporated | News | CommentsMolex Incorporated has launched a new application that gives tablet users ready access to information on over 90 different Molex product families. Designed for Apple and Android devices, the Molex App allows tablet users to view product information, search products, view literature and view videos without being online.
Engineering Update #11: Navy Launches Drone from Aircraft Carrier
May 23, 2013 1:46 pm | by Eric Sorensen, Multimedia Coordinator | Videos | CommentsOn this episode of Engineering Update, the Navy has launched a drone the size of a fighter jet from a warship, the emergence of polymer-based flexible circuits, and a lightweight sound camera.
Researchers Forward Quest for Quantum Computing
May 23, 2013 1:24 pm | by Caron Lett, University of York | News | CommentsResearch teams from UW-Milwaukee and the University of York investigating the properties of ultra-thin films of new materials are helping bring quantum computing one step closer to reality. An on-going collaboration between physicists from York and the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA, is focusing on understanding, tailoring, and tuning the electronic properties of topological insulators at the nanoscale.
HotSpot Episode 13: Samsung Announces 5G
May 22, 2013 11:33 am | by Eric Sorensen, Multimedia Coordinator | Videos | CommentsThis week on WDD's HotSpot, the development of 5G mobile communication, an iPhone attachment that emits smells, achieving a wireless transmission of 40 Gbit per second, and putting exercise motivation in front of your eyes.
Mouser Electronics’ President & CEO Glenn Smith Celebrates 40 Years of Service
May 21, 2013 1:30 pm | by Mouser Electronics, Inc. | Mouser Electronics | News | CommentsMouser Electronics, Inc. has announced the 40th company anniversary milestone of Glenn Smith, Mouser’s President and Chief Executive Officer. With strategic vision, Smith has built the company into a global corporation that today - four decades later - has 1,200 employees, 400,000 customers, more than $600 million in annual revenue, and 19 offices on three continents.
Opening Doors to Foldable Electronics with Inkjet-Printed Graphene
May 21, 2013 1:26 pm | by Sarah Ostman, Northwestern University | News | CommentsImagine a bendable tablet computer or an electronic newspaper that could fold to fit in a pocket. The technology for these devices may not be so far off. Northwestern University researchers have recently developed a graphene-based ink that is highly conductive and tolerant to bending, and they have used it to inkjet-print graphene patterns that could be used for extremely detailed, conductive electrodes.
TTI, Inc. Vice President of Quality to Speak at SMTA/CALCE Counterfeit Symposium
May 21, 2013 10:01 am | by TTI, Inc. | Tti, Inc. | News | CommentsTTI, Inc. Vice President Total Quality, Kevin Sink, is slated to speak at the SMTA/CALCE Electronic Parts and Supply Chain Counterfeit Symposium June 25-27, 2013, in College Park, Maryland on the University of Maryland campus.
Case Study: Reliability in Portable Sound Equipment
May 21, 2013 8:48 am | by NKK Switches | Nkk Switches, Inc. | Articles | CommentsProfessional Sound Corporation (PSC) has designed and manufactured highly portable, rugged audio equipment for the television and motion picture industries since 1986. The rigorous demands placed on PSC’s equipment present unique switching challenges that NKK’s switches have helped to overcome.
Panel: Apple Uses Firms Outside U.S. to Avoid Taxes
May 20, 2013 5:00 pm | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsApple Inc. employs a group of affiliate companies located outside the United States to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. income taxes, a Senate investigation has found. The world's most valuable company is holding overseas some $102 billion of its $145 billion in cash, and an Irish...
Kickstarter of the Week: Turn Your Smartphone Into a Laptop
May 20, 2013 12:22 pm | by Eric Sorensen, Coordinator of Multimedia Development | Videos | CommentsToday on PD&D's Kickstarter of the Week, we use the Casetop from Livi Designs to turn our Smartphones into a Laptop.
Kickstarter of the Week: Make Any Smartphone a Laptop
May 20, 2013 10:39 am | by Melissa Fassbender, Associate Editor, PD&D | Articles | CommentsA self-proclaimed nerd by trade, John Andrus, Founder of Livi Design, is turning ordinary smartphones into laptops with the launch of the Casetop. After the iPhone debuted, Andrus knew that smartphones were going to become a disruptive technology. So why not do more to harness the devices power? After asking this question, he sat down and started designing his idea.
Bernanke Forecasts Gains From Computer Technology
May 20, 2013 9:26 am | by Martin Crutsinger, AP Economics Writer | News | CommentsFederal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says pessimists forecasting that the economy will not reap sizable benefits from the computer revolution are likely to be proven wrong. Bernanke told a college graduating class Saturday that the long-range practical consequences of innovations such as faster computers and the Internet are hard to predict.
H.B. Fuller Enters the Electronic & Assembly Materials Market with New “Eco-system” Approach
May 17, 2013 2:22 pm | by H.B. Fuller Company | H.B. Fuller Co. | News | CommentsH.B. Fuller Company has announced that the company is entering the growing electronics and assembly materials market with a total solutions “eco-system” approach that includes materials, processes and equipment support from the concept phase to the consumer’s hands.
Why Google Glass?
May 17, 2013 2:12 pm | by TED | Videos | CommentsIt's not a demo, more of a philosophical argument: Why did Sergey Brin and his team at Google want to build an eye-mounted camera/computer, codenamed Glass? Onstage at TED2013, Brin calls for a new way of seeing our relationship with our mobile computers -- not hunched over a screen but meeting the world heads-up.
ERA President: EDS 2013 ‘Very Productive’
May 17, 2013 11:07 am | by David Mantey, Executive Editor, PD&D | News | CommentsAfter the dust had settled, and most of the industry had returned to their native lands, ERA President Paul C. Nielsen of Brainard-Nelsen Marketing was able to put EDS 2013 in perspective. “I thought EDS was great,” Nielsen said. “It had a very high energy level with a lot of productive professional and personal meetings.”
After EDS: Q&A with John Knight
May 17, 2013 10:53 am | by David Mantey, Executive Editor, PD&D | Orion Fans | News | CommentsAccording to John Knight, Vice President of Knight Electronics/Orion Fans, EDS 2013 proved to provide an excellent venue for networking within the electronics industry, and it continues the highlight the trends in the ever-evolving electronics distribution industry. After the event, Knight had a chance to reflect on the event.
EDS President: You Can’t Miss EDS If You’re In the Electronics Industry
May 17, 2013 9:59 am | by David Mantey, Executive Editor, PD&D | News | CommentsJim Bruorton wore two hats at EDS 2013 this year, the first as a manufacturer and his role as vice president of global distribution sales and business development with KEMET Corporation; and the second as a board member and president of EDS 2013.
Young Computer Hackers Jailed
May 17, 2013 9:39 am | by Sylvia Hui, Associated Press | News | CommentsFour young computer hackers who masterminded cyberattacks on targets from the CIA to Sony Pictures and Rupert Murdoch's News International were sentenced to up to 32 months in prison on Thursday. The hackers, who were affiliated with the group Lulz Security, had all pleaded guilty to hacking charges.
Tech, Labor Spar on Immigration
May 17, 2013 9:36 am | by Anne Flaherty, Associated Press | News | CommentsTo the U.S. technology industry, there's a dramatic shortfall in the number of Americans skilled in computer programming and engineering that is hampering business. To unions and some Democrats, it's more sinister: The push by Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to expand the number of visas for high-tech foreign workers is an attempt to dilute a lucrative job market with cheap, indentured labor.
New World Record in Wireless Data Transmission
May 16, 2013 12:43 pm | by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | News | CommentsResearchers of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics and the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology have achieved the wireless transmission of 40 Gbit/s at 240 GHz over a distance of one kilometer. Their most recent demonstration sets a new world record and ties in seamlessly with the capacity of optical fiber transmission.
Security Risks Found in Sensors for Heart Devices, Consumer Electronics
May 16, 2013 12:32 pm | by Nicole Casal Moore, University of Michigan | News | CommentsThe type of sensors that pick up the rhythm of a beating heart in implanted cardiac defibrillators and pacemakers are vulnerable to tampering, according to a new study conducted in controlled laboratory conditions.
Teardown: Agilent N9344C 20GHz Spectrum Analyzer
May 16, 2013 9:34 am | by EEVblog | Videos | CommentsWhat's inside an $18K 20 GHz handheld spectrum analyzer? On this week's teardown, EEVblog finds out.
HotSpot Episode 12: 3D Microbatteries
May 15, 2013 2:40 pm | by Eric Sorensen, Multimedia Coordinator | Videos | CommentsThis week on WDD's HotSpot, a netbook-like combo that uses a smartphone for its computing power, new microbatteries for a balance between energy and density, satellites that listen in on ADS, and a sound camera that shows the location of troublesome noises in machinery.
