3D Transistors: An Interview with Intel’s Mark Bohr
In More Info | No commentIntel’s Mark Bohr describes why the company switched from traditional planar transistors to 3D devices at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco.
Intel’s Mark Bohr describes why the company switched from traditional planar transistors to 3D devices at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco.
Liquid Robotics launches four Wave Glider Robots on an unmanned journey across the Pacific Ocean.
As a replacement for today’s DRAM and flash memory, ferroelectric materials have many desirable characteristics. But to get a better sense of how ferroelectric bits behave on the nanoscale, Xiaoqing Pan of the University of Michigan and his colleagues used a high-resolution transmission electron microscope to watch the switching process in action. They’ve found the switching starts in an unexpected place and can be started with less power than anticipated. IEEE Spectrum Associate Editor Rachel Courtland speaks with Pan about the new results and the team’s footage of the switching process.
A heads up display for ski goggles lets you read incoming texts while tracking speed and distance.
In this edition of The Full Spectrum, we interview Kevin Karsch, a computer science PhD student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He and his collaborators have developed a method for inserting synthetic objects into photographs without having access to the original location. By marking the rough physical geometry of the scene and the location of light sources within it, users can quickly add digital objects that behave as if they were in the original photo.
Discovery Bay games gives you a joystick and 4 buttons to play Atari games on your iPad.
An iPhone controlled helicopter that can shoot missiles.
Jeff Han of Perceptive Pixel talks about why they’ve switched to Gorilla Glass for their 84-inch touch screen, and why there are so many different multitouch booths at CES this year.
The Ecovacs Deebot D76, introduced at CES 2012, has a docking station capable of emptying the robot’s dust bin automatically.
Samsung’s NaviBot-S robot vacuum, shown at CES 2012, is capable of emptying its dust bin automatically.
Spectrum Senior Editor Tekla Perry tests Tobii’s eye-tracking technology at CES 2012.
I caught up with Dean Kamen at CES 2012. Kamen, inventor of the first wearable infusion pump, the Segway and founder of the FIRST family of robotic competitions, gives a shout out to the sponsors of FIRST and tells me why he’s passionate about supporting the next generation of innovators. Says Kamen, “this world we live in of exciting growth of science, technology, and electronics doesn’t happen for free; we all have to be committed in making sure the next generation of kids has a passion for innovation.”
John Kappenman breaks down what was ultimately a rather ordinary event.
It blacked out all of Quebec, but a larger storm could have more catastrophic effects.
The founders of Stinky Studios took the Demo Spring stage to introduce what just may be the next hit smartphone app; six days earlier, they hadn’t even met. They tell the story of their wild ride.
NASA Robonaut 2 project manager Ron Diftler explains how the robot’s compliant arms operate.
Fujitsu’s palm vein biometric system uses infrared sensors to capture an image of the veins in your hand.
Kickstarter, the well-known crowdfunding website, has evolved from an art community into a techie shopping center. The website runs on a reward system: a backer of a project is given a prize for pledging support. Some projects offer tangible prizes, such as t-shirts, while others promise little more than the joy of being involved. But for gadget start-ups with prototypes, the promised reward is often the product itself. When users pledge a set amount of cash for a product to be delivered in the future, it looks a lot like a sale, even if Kickstarter stresses that it is not….
Google demonstrated a 3D model of San Francisco on June 6, 2012. The company says the technology is coming to mobile devices in a few weeks.
David Brady and his colleagues at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering have taken the phrase “high resolution” to a whole new level. They’re building gigapixel cameras, which produce images that resemble some of the panoramic mosaics you may have seen. The difference is that Brady’s cameras can take giga-snapshots, capturing the entire scene all at once rather than forcing you to take a series of images and later stitch them together.