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Watch an episode of NCIS or CSI and you might get the impression that hacking electronic devices is a simple way to learn all you need to about a person. While these shows tend to …

Over at Universe Today, there is a review of the book titled “NASA Space Shuttle Owner’s Workshop Manual.” When I first started using the Internet (over dial-up at 28.8kps), I came …

Apple’s latest magic trick was upgrading their previous A4 chip into a dual core variant, the A5. This chip powers the recently announced iPad 2 and is likely to be in the upcoming …

Coming Q3 of 2011, ST-Micro will begin selling a Single-Chip GPS IC called the Teseo II. It has an ARM core integrated into it, which should help reduce the time it takes to get a …

From the company that brought us, “There is a worldwide need for no more than 5 computers”. IBM is announcing 5 Innovative Technologies we will see over the next 5 years. In …

Engineers at Yelp have put together an Arduino and iPad controlled Keg-o-rator. By swiping their RFID they can track how much a person is drinking, collect statistics about how …

George at nbitwonder caught this outside the Armstrong Hall of Engineering Purdue while walking to class. The signs read: I think work should be about making things work. Better. …

Rob ’linear’ Arnold has put together a fantastic LED Series/Parallel Wizard. Not only will it calculate the current limiting resistor you need, it will draw a circuit diagram, and …

Electronics Weekly has invited Dale Cigoy of Keithley Instruments to talk about how capacitors work. Since capacitors are part of almost any Electronic circuit or project, it is a …

Joseph Heremans and Roberto Meyrs at the Ohio State University have been studying materials that could be used to turn heat from ICs into electricity. The research is focused on …