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As technology firms continue to drive rapid economic growth, the decision about where they locate often becomes political in nature, especially when they’re opening a second headquarters. Think Amazon and its HQ2 competition a year or so…

One of the reasons it took so long to develop workable lithium-ion batteries for cars was the inherent instability of lithium, especially during charging. Metallic lithium plating that can occur during extreme temperature fluctuations means…

Imagine being able to 3D-print an object without the digital information required to do so because the instructions have already been stored in the object. It's absolutely possible now. Researchers at ETH Zurich have collaborated with an…

A clear conductive coating that could protect advanced solar cells and touch screens has been developed by MIT researchers, who believe it should be relatively easy to produce at industrial scale and will produce a tenfold gain in…

The rare class of materials that can reversibly switch between electrically conducting and insulating states offers promise for the design and delivery of faster microelectronics with more storage capabilities.  A new approach developed by…

3D printing is disruptive. Not in a DIY-desktop-kind-of-way, but in a way that arms it with the power to transform production processes so that businesses can reap tangible benefits of its incorporation. Why, then, are some businesses…

While a sense of touch that can be transmitted over distance like voice and video means you can imagine holding hands with a loved one on the other side of the world or feeling a pat on the back from teammates in online games, it can also…

With their increased flexibility and adaptability for accomplishing tasks, soft robots offer the promise of improved safety when working around humans. Optimizing soft robots to perform specific tasks is, however, a huge computational…

Perhaps the most famous graphical tactile system is braille. While it’s difficult to learn, there are at least two reasons speech recognition hasn’t made braille obsolete: first, we may have underestimated the need to interact with our…

First it was the discovery earlier this month that the galaxy known as NGC 6240 has three supermassive black holes at its core. Now theoreticians in two different fields are questioning what’s become common knowledge: planets orbit stars…

Because electrons and ions behave on vastly different timescales, it’s been prohibitive to simulate both on the same footing. Ultrafast quantum simulation, however, overcomes this limitation and allows for the study of the dynamics of the…

While Elon Musk insists he takes the orbital debris issue seriously, with SpaceX firing 60 satellites into space in a single week in May 2019, chances are good some of them will encounter problems. And when satellites break, which is…

The holiday shopping season is upon us. That means it's time to think about gifts with a tech spin for the tech-lover or engineer in your life. Here at eeDesignIt, we picked 10 not-so-ordinary tech gifts you might want to consider. Let's…

Perhaps you've been hearing a lot about origami robots, flexible bots that can be used in a ton of applications like drug delivery within the human body and search-and-rescue missions. Because these robots need to be flexible, they tend…

LED lighting is slowly replacing fluorescent lighting on the market and this led many folks to believe that there is no need to bother about flickering lights anymore. While technology has evolved in so many ways, flicker persists.…