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It weighs in at a scant one ounce per kilometer. Yet just one fiber-optic strand, smaller than a human hair, can carry all the telephone traffic in the U.S. at […]

LIKE A FINE BOUILLABAISSE, INSTRUMENTS ARE BEING BLENDED WITH SOFTWARE, AND WHAT'S EMERGING FROM THE CALDRON IS BOTH EVOLUTIONARY AND revolutionary. The evolution is, as we would expect, driven by […]

Like an octopus, the oscilloscope on today's design bench must sprout multiple tentacles, reaching out to monitor signals in many parts of a circuit and displaying the measured values all […]

The easiest way to envision a spectrum analyzer is to begin with an oscilloscope that plots magnitude versus time. Then swap frequency for time--and voila--a spectrum analyzer! A gross simplification […]

When it comes to the notion of 'embedded,' the microprocessor may have to renounce its sovereignty and share its scepter with the flat-panel display. The reason is simply that embedded […]

Exporters and importers need to ensure their goods are being shipped and packed properly. It's adventure on the high seas. On board ships steaming over the horizon, your widgets could [...]

Imagine trying to move more than 2 million metric tons of wheat through terminal elevators in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska; loading in 12-hour turnarounds and unloading in 10-hour turnarounds; [...]

Entering the playing field of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union is not for the impatient venture capitalist. It is a long game of slow returns that requires a [...]

Keeping employees well becomes cornerstone in debate over costs The selling point for a worksite intervention program is the cost savings it offers employers. Properly administered, such programs can reduce [...]

Byline: Steve Grossman, Editor Modeled very much like a bat, a six-inch robotic spy plane will soon gather data from sights, sounds and smells in urban combat zones and transmit [...]

Byline: Steve Grossman, Editor By using a popcorn-ball design - tiny kernels clumped into much larger porous spheres - researchers at the University of Washington have been able to manipulate [...]

Byline: Steve Grossman, Editor A prototype computer showcased last week at the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) Symposium in Washington, D.C is a harbinger for what may bring [...]

Byline: Steve Grossman, Editor Nanotechnology researchers at Georgia Tech are developing a 'power shirt' able to generate electricity to power small electronic devices for soldiers in the field, hikers and [...]

Byline: Steve Grossman, Editor The announcement of an 832-GB Solid State Drive (SSD) in a 2.5-inch form factor by BitMicro is yet another milepost in the arena of rapidly developing [...]

Byline: Steve Grossman, Editor A multitude of new devices powered without wires or even batteries is becoming possible with a technology that Powercast is showcasing this week at the Consumer [...]

Byline: Steve Grossman, Editor As reported this past Saturday in The New York Times, a network of approximately 200 buoys located offshore in the Pacific Ocean could provide enough energy [...]

Byline: Steve Grossman, Editor In what is said to be the first of its kind as a commercially available service to consumers on a mass scale, Verizon has introduced a [...]

Byline: Steve Grossman, Editor By imitating the brick-and-mortar molecular structure found in seashells, University of Michigan researchers have created a composite plastic that is as strong as steel but lighter [...]

Byline: Steve Grossman, Editor A Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne RS-27A engine boosted a Delta II rocket into space from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Sept. 18. The rocket [...]

Byline: Steve Grossman, Editor The U.S. military's current general airlift forces are suitable for the majority of counterinsurgency missions, but need substantial reinvestment and some realignment in order to be [...]

Byline: Steve Grossman, Editor Temple University School of Medicine researchers have developed a new biosensor that 'sniffs out' explosives and could one day be used to detect landmines and deadly [...]

Byline: Steve Grossman, Editor According to Bob Rennard, LXI president, approximately 150 product developers, system integrators and university professors gathered at the LXI Consortium Meeting in Beijing, China in late [...]

Byline: Steve Grossman, Editor DuPont and Environmental Defense have released a comprehensive framework to assist with the responsible development and use of nanotechnology and to help inform global dialogue of [...]

Byline: Steve Grossman, Editor A new MEMS accelerometer is expected to provide the performance of a $17,000 accelerometer and be unusually accurate at a MEMS pricing level, which will be [...]

Byline: Steve Grossman, Editor Lockheed Martin has announced a $40.4 million contract modification to complete the Precision Engagement (PE) program engineering and manufacturing development phase for the A-10C Warthog aircraft. [...]

Byline: Steve Grossman, Editor Producing optical images at resolutions as low as one nanometer is the goal of Virginia Tech College of Engineering researcher, Yong Xu, who has received a [...]

Byline: Steve Grossman, Editor Immersion lithography is fast approaching its launch on the manufacturing floor and will probably come on board with a number of large semiconductor manufacturing companies this [...]

Byline: Steve Grossman,Editor 'Providing system-level support for 100 Gb/s Ethernet requires an advanced backplane design that can ensure line-rate transmission of traffic throughout the system,' according to Joel Goergen, chief [...]

Byline: Steve Grossman, Editor Norway has announced that it will participate in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) production phase. That nation's Forsvards departmentet has issued a release saying that [...]

The US Aircraft Corporation is taking a radically different tack to fighter aircraft. And for good reason: In fighting insurgencies where targets are often pickup trucks and adversaries on the [...]

Byline: Steve Grossman, Editor It's not really surprising, but with a field-programmable array (FPGA) on board, it is likely that a software defined radio (SDR) or software cognitive radio (SCR) [...]

Byline: Steve Grossman, Editor By integrating readily available generic sensors with more sophisticated sensors, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico are developing detection system that promise to make [...]

Byline: Steve Grossman, Editor Nanotechnology holds tremendous potential - for breakthroughs in medicine, in the production of clean water and energy - as well as in computers and electronics. In [...]

Byline: Steve Grossman, Editor Initiated way back in 1997, the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) program is slated to top $37 billion in costs before it is brought to full [...]

Byline: Steve Grossman, editor Last week, scientists came together at the Conference on Telecommunications and Computers in Portsmouth, England to discuss software-defined radio (SDR). As Francis Kinsella, an engineer at [...]

Byline: Steve Grossman, Editor There has been a report recently that China has fired high-power lasers at U.S. spy satellites flying over its territory in what experts see as a [...]

On Aug. 31, a Lockheed Martin anti-ballistic PAC-3 successfully intercepted a test missile, followed on Sept.1 by the successful launch by Boeing of a missile from Vandenberg Air base, which [...]

Byline: Steve Grossman, Editor Software-defined radio (SDR) may be turning a corner, thanks to a professor at Virginia Tech University in Blackburn, Va. For it is there that Professor Charles [...]

The Emcore Corp. has announced that a team, including Emcore, Group4 Labs and engineers at the U.S. Air Force Research Labs (AFRL), has demonstrated what is said to be the [...]

Silecs has introduced the SC series of products for use as advanced optical coatings in state-of-the-art CMOS image sensor (CIS) production. Digital image sensors manufactured with low-cost CMOS semiconductor processes [...]

Governments and port authorities acknowledge that the 17 million cargo containers in use around the world are clearly the weak link in national security arrangements. Import/exporters and manufacturers understand that [...]

IEEE is engaged in the development of a wireless, long-wavelength standard designated as IEEE P1902.1 and entitled 'IEEE Standard for Long Wavelength Wireless Network Protocol.' The objective of this standard [...]

Oak Ridge Micro-Energy has developed a rechargeable thin-film, lithium-ion battery that survives lead-free solder reflow temperatures. According to John Bates, chief technical officer at Oak Ridge Micro-Energy, the battery has [...]

Rather than 'force feeding' a battery, as has been the case with battery-charging technology in the past, a novel charging technology under development at Gem Power enables the battery, itself, [...]