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Our smartphones are pretty smart and can do a great deal more than we can, but one thing they've been lacking is feelings. Not the kind of feelings that engineers are trying to give robots, though. More like physical feeling. For…

With so much talk of one day living on other planets, there's a lot of thought put into how to make that feat feasible. Expandable habitats are being designed to take up less room on a spacecraft, while providing greater volume for living…

Along with combating raging flames, firefighters deal with thick smoke and dark conditions that add to the dangers of their job. Technology may be able to help.

Plastic, nylon, ceramics, metal — these are some of the materials we most commonly see used in 3D printing, but a Dutch design company now wants to add chocolate to the repertoire.

Integrated Device Technology (IDT) introduced a digital variable gain amplifier (VGA) for radio frequency (RF) base stations featuring its new KLIN  constant linearity technology at the International Microwave Symposium, IMS2016, Moscone…

Alliance Memory expands its line of legacy low-power CMOS SRAMs with a new 8M IC (512K x 16 bit) in the 48-pin 12-mm by 20-mm TSOP-I package. Available from a very limited number of suppliers and recently discontinued by another…

Linear introduces the LTC2311-16, a 16-bit, 5Msps successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with a wide rail-to-rail input common mode range. The LTC2311-16 features a flexible differential input that accepts…

Dynamic Structures and Materials (DSM) is proud to unveil the SUM-40, a precision rotary smart motor.  The SUM-40 is unique due to its combination of high torque, precision, zero backlash, and zero power hold.  DSM’s SUM-40 package houses a…

Vishay new series of aluminum polymer capacitors featuring conductive technology. For portable electronics and consumer and telecom applications, Vishay BCcomponents 180 CPS and 181 CPL series devices provide higher ripple current, lower…

What's more intimidating than a U.S. Navy drone coming right at you? Probably a swarm of U.S. Navy drones being launched at you in concert. This week, the Navy revealed a demonstration of its  Low-Cost UAV Swarming Technology (LOCUST) in…