Crowdfunding campaigns or wide product announcements that do not make sense pops up every now and then. It seems that energy related “inventions” seems to be getting easily into the spotlight without proven merits: Hackaday article Crowdfunding Follies: Proof That Ohm’s Law Is Arcane Knowledge tells about a special cell phone case Kickstarter (Nikola Phone →
https://www.raspberrypi.org/raspberry-pi-official-case/ Story how official case for Raspberry Pi was designed an how it is manufactured. There goes lots of design and engineering to make a plastic case. Posted from WordPress for Android →
News beat is drumming heavily on claim that Company Extends Alkaline Battery Life With Voltage Booster. Batteriser is making its media debut, with features in all the tech blogs, an astonishing amount of print outlets, and spouted from the gaping maws of easily impressed rubes the world over: Batteriser is a $2.50 gadget that promises →
http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/biomedical/devices/hardware-startups-take-on-lupus-asthma-infertility-night-terrors Posted from WordPress for Android →
The great LED lightbulb rip-off: One in four expensive ‘long-life’ bulbs doesn’t last anything like as long as the makers claim article tells that many energy-efficient LED light bulbs failed before their advertised lifespan, tests have found. Disappointing result comes despite claims of them lasting 25,000 hours. The consumer watchdog and European partners tested five samples of →
http://spectrum.ieee.org/static/hacking-the-human-os Posted from WordPress for Android →
So, you want to measure the shape of an object, perform a 3D surface scan or conduct surface metrology tests. Google tells us there are many measurement methods to achieve these goals. Problem is, which one’s best for you? Non-Contact Distance Measurement Technologies article is a god overview to the non-contact measurement sensor technologies – →
http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/consumer-electronics/gadgets/cesasia-2015-chinas-maker-scene-is-exploding Posted from WordPress for Android →
Every now and then there are situations where you need to draw timing diagram. I have drawn those sometimes with different tools, but none of them have been ideal (text description, hand drawings, ASCII art etc..). So what are the existing solutions worth to check out? There are font-based solutions that let you “type” the →
http://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/materials/supercapacitors-take-huge-leap-in-performance Posted from WordPress for Android →