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The original action camera started as a home-sewn strap that secured a disposable camera to the user’s wrist

Product management, reliability, and security jobs pay the most in Silicon Valley, says job search firm Indeed

This odd hybrid camera had a mechanical shutter and a 6.1-megapixel image sensor

The idea for the Walkman came from Sony’s opera-loving cofounder

The first cellphone with an AMOLED screen fizzled in the marketplace, despite combining several very advanced technologies

A research team tries to turn bees into living drones by gluing wireless sensor platforms to their backs

That’s the promise of 42, a free school for software engineering

Researchers tried out several new devices to get closer to the ideal needed for deep learning and neuromorphic computing

A test in sheep shows that custom-made electrodes can constrict an injured artery and reduce blood loss

The following article is a summary of OnScale’s webinar discussing how OnScale allows companies to optimize their most demanding sensor and system designs using powerful FEM seamlessly integrated with Cloud HPC.

Over a dozen robots that we promise will make fantastic holiday gifts

In collaboration with Mentor, OnScale presents an article on the meticulous product design of the MEMS pressure sensor, by the industry experts, along with the simulation and the design of the sensor as well as its integration into the overall system.

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Mechanical metamaterials can have their rigidity tuned, offering a new approach to soft robotics

First the stent electrode listened for brain signals. Now it talks back

We needed to implement a cost-effective low-altitude aerial testbed that can verify novel wireless communications applications between the airborne node and ground terminals while meeting tight constraints for payload weight, volume and power consumption

Critics say the agency’s proposed coverage obligations “disregard the laws of physics”

AlphaZero, a general-purpose game-playing system, quickly taught itself to be the best player ever in Go, chess and Shogi

How UAVs benefit consumers through faster estimates, quicker response times and faster delivery of benefits

Energy harvesting IoT chips could compute with low power relays

Roku succeeded in a chaotic market and despite daunting odds—and then set standards copied by much bigger rivals

Xbox was a blindingly spectacular exception in Microsoft’s otherwise mostly dismal record in consumer-oriented hardware

Here are the stories behind the best gadgets of the past 50 years

RadioShack hoped PC sales would offset the income decline caused by waning interest in CB radios

The Zojirushi was among the first appliances to use fuzzy logic, and made it almost impossible to ruin a pot of rice

A project to build the ultimate CD player hinged on the design of a low-pass filter

The Greatest Gadgets of the Past 50 Years

Adapting Microsoft's mixed reality technology to meet soldiers' needs could be challenging, one expert says

Productivity gains will continue through the next two or three chip generations, but after that we’ll need something bigger and better

Their goal is to allow passengers to keep streaming videos, even when their train passes through a tunnel

Experts in the field give a hard-headed assessment of just how hard the technology is

Stern Pinball is seeing sales surge as it provides sophisticated new machines for an arcade business renaissance. Meanwhile, new technology is keeping old machines running in New York

A robot that can detect a plant's electrochemical signals goes where the plant wants it to go

Three twenty-somethings—one from Ecuador, one from France, and one from India—teamed up in Silicon Valley to tackle the challenge of spotting a wildfire before it gets out of control

The pioneering social robot company has sold its IP and assets, meaning that this is pretty much the end

Mass production has become hybridized with customization to allow for the production of unique goods at scale.

The role of high-precision test solutions is going to be crucial in early 5G chipset prototyping, development and device design validation.

The Optimizer Smart system could help millions of patients with congestive heart failure

Researchers used the chip to test a simple neural net and identify numerals with 100 percent accuracy

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When building a completely new system or test bed, the risks of designing or developing a fully custom radio from a circuit board are too great to take on because the development stage may require plenty of redesigning

The pioneering inventor nearly killed himself in pursuit of a practical use for electricity

Pilots on flight JT610 struggled to control the Boeing aircraft and fought against automated systems

In this article, we’ll take a look at the next wave of 5G NR technologies, including key ongoing efforts to 5G into its future and realize the full 5G opportunity

A new role for humans: prepping data so AI can learn to do our jobs

A novel field emission transistor that uses air gaps could breathe life into Moore’s Law