EETimes Podcast

Week In Review October 31, 2008

Fri, Oct 31, 2008 10:00

This week our top technolog stories include how a silicon core can improve optical fibers, how organic wires can interface with our bodies, how robodogs are helping the disabled, how a semantic search engine out-Googles Google, and how a low-power Blackfin is extending the battery life of handhelds.

Week In Review October 24, 2008

Thu, Oct 23, 2008 17:15

This week our top technology stories include how a new solar materal absorbs more of the Sun's rays, how mobile video-chat is enabled by WiMAX, how Google's Android gets improved security, how new chips can make cars safer, how to soup-up a car with 32-bit microcontroller and how to get warnings about upcoming road hazards.

Week In Review October 17, 2008

Fri, Oct 17, 2008 09:15

This week our top stories include how electric fields can boost fuel economy by 20 percent, how green microgrids can pervent blackouts, how RFID tags are the first application of silicon ink, how a conductive adhesive could replace solder and how the Cassini space probe is hunting for life on a Saturn moon.

Week In Review October 10, 2008

Fri, Oct 10, 2008 09:15

This week my top stories include how smart LED-lighting could gain integrated wireless access nodes, how a universal laser could supply all usable frequencies, how to make pacemakers hack-proof, how mechatronics design got simplified and how the DoD handed out a million dollar prize for a fuel-cell-based Wearable Power pack for soldiers.

Week In Review October 03, 2008

Fri, Oct 03, 2008 10:45

This week our top stories include how trees can power remote sensor networks, how an underwater robot hovers like a helicopter, how a two-wheeled robot controls posture, how WiMAX chips are spanning all available bands, how an emulator aids wireless research and development, and how quantum dots can pentrate the skin causing a possible health hazard.

Week In Review September 26, 2008

Fri, Sep 26, 2008 9:45

This week our top stories include how electronic tablets are aiming to replace paper, how MEM microphones are moving into the mainstream, how the world's thinnest oscillator thinned down, how a curved ultrawideband antenna achieved its small size, and how peer-to-peer file sharing has entered the corporate world.

Week In Review September 19, 2008

Fri, Sep 19, 2008 10:00

This week my top stories include how Texas Instruments has adopted the Pinyon slot-antenna for its wireless reference designs, how high-temperature magnetosensors can now serve future ceramic engines, how a wireless vendors seeks to bridge WiMAX and LTE, how Advanced Micro Devices is boosting 3D graphics acceleration and how computer-aided designers are getting integrated project management.

Week In Review September 12, 2008

Fri, Sep 12, 2008 09:00

This week our top technology stories include how EEs made possible Europe's supercollider, how U.S. colliders are still beating Europe's, how MEMS accelerometers are preventing automobile accidents, how OEMs can now use combo satellite/cellular designs for constant connectivity regardless of location, and how DSP's are enabling virtual audio mixers.

Week In Review September 5, 2008

Fri, Sep 05, 2008 10:00

This week our top technology stories include how Bell Labs is exiting chip research for which it has garnered six Nobel Prizes, how a robot has removed a diseased kidney through a single incision, how China is countering the U.S. invisibility cloak for hiding aircraft, satellites and missiles with an anti-cloak, and how a virtual musician called iMe can learn to jam along with players in any musical style.

Week In Review August 29, 2008

Fri, Aug 29, 2008 09:15

This week out top technology stories include how IBM has improved its light-emitting nanotubes (LENs) with optical cavities, how green energy is on-track in the short-, medium- and long-terms, how viruses can assemble on-chip batteries and how 3D lidars (laser radar) are obsoleting the weather balloon. Plus hear IBM Fellow Phaedon Avouris' quote of the week.

Week In Review August 22, 2008

Fri, Aug 22, 2008 09:15

This week our top technology stories include how the memristor could revolutionize electronics, how the world's smallest SRAM was made, how the future of technology is looking according to Intel's chief technology officer, how digital money could replace paper money, and how Texas Instrument's digital light processor (DLP) is aiming at new markets. Also hear the quote of the week from Intel's Scott Mainwaring who claims that digital money offers opportunities to companies building new wireless wallets. Plus get a preview of this weekend's Bourne Report.

Week In Review August 15, 2008

Fri, Aug 15, 2008 09:30

This week my top stories include the how the world's first 3D chip process debuted, how terabit per square inch hard disk media works, how ocean power could generate electricity 24/7, and how fluid mechanics is helping engineers to improve the performance of U.S. Olympic swimmers. Also hear the quote of the week and get a sneak preview of this weekend's Bourne Report.

Week In Review August 8, 2008

Fri, Aug 08, 2008 09:00

This week my top stories include how card-playing bots could doom online poker, how a fuel cell advance could lower cost and boost efficiency, how cheaper 'supermagnets' could drive future hybrid cars, how the world's highest highest-resolution holograms were made and Olympics technology to keep athletes honest. Plus hear a new feature called "Quote of the Week" and a sneak preview of this weekend's Bourne Report.

Week In Review August 1, 2008

Fri, Aug 01, 2008 10:00

This week our top technology stories include how MIT demonstrates a method of making solar power 24/7, how a microscope-on a-chip has been invented, how semiconductor lasers no longer need lenses, and how nano-inks could advance printed electronics. Plus get a sneak preview of this weekend's Bourne report.

Week In Review July 25, 2008

Fri, Jul 25, 2008 17:00

This week our top technologies stories include how micro-electro-mechanical systems are built into an Olympic torch, how CherryPal is redefining the PC, how a software tool called Supple personalizes user-interfaces, how to extend optical lithography down to 12 nanometers, and how drug testing is being done at the Olympics. Also get a sneak preview of this weekend's Bourne Report.

Week In Review July 18, 2008

Fri, Jul 18, 2008 18:10

This week my top stories include how nanoelectrodes make electrolysis cheaper than gas, how white organic LEDs can be brighter than light bulbs, how a NASA drone is spotting fires in California, how solar cars are racing across North America and how 3-D chip stacks can be standardized. Also get a sneak preview of this weekend's Bourne Report.

Week In Review July 11, 2008

Thu, 11 July 2008 12:00:00 EST

This week's top technology stories include how an AI beat humans at poker, how a robot defeated human air hockey players, paint-on solar panels, a millimeter-sized microphone and how memristors, the fourth passive electronic component, are ready for prime time.

Week In Review July 3, 2008

Thu, 3 July 2008 12:00:00 EST

This week my top stories include how the MEMS business topped $6 billion, how the electronic retina is making the blind see again, how compressed air could store energy generated at night for use during the day, how airless tires are on the way, how a new photodetector can sense anthrax floating in the air and how a new type of transistor solves the optical computing problem.