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Back in October we told you about OLO, the $99 device that turns your smartphone into a 3D printer. At that time, the invention had just debuted at World Maker Faire and there was no production date in sight and we weren't even completely…

Fairchild launched the flagship device of the company’s newest generation of 100V N-channel power MOSFETs, the FDMS86181 100V Shielded Gate PowerTrench MOSFET. The FDMS86181 is the first part in Fairchild’s new generation of PowerTrench…

AVX Corporation has released FFLI Series capacitors a new, high-voltage series of dry, medium-power film capacitors especially designed for DC filtering applications, such as the DC filtering of high frequency ripple currents and decoupling…

Linear Technology introduces the LTM8064, a step-down DC/DC µModule (power module) regulator with a 6V to 58V (60Vmax) input voltage range and adjustable load current control with ±10% accuracy at 7A. The LTM8064 can be used as a…

Nike has officially brought the Back to the Future film into the present, with its self-tying sneakers. Nike HyperAdapt 1.0 is the first shoe to display the technology, referred to as adaptive lacing. The shoe incorporates digital,…

Hate when you forget to check the weather, or even worse, forget your umbrella once you find out it's going to rain? Wezzoo, a social and real-time weather service, wanted to dive deeper into weather services so it developed the…

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) has just granted a team of engineers from the University of Virginia and various other U.S. universities a federal grant to develop a forest of giant wind…

A team of scientists from South Korea’s Institute for Basic Science has developed a wearable graphene-based patch that allows for diabetes monitoring and feedback therapy, all using human sweat. To create the device, the researchers…

At Apple's special event yesterday, the company's CEO Tim Cook kicked off with the unveiling of a robot. In an attempt to become a bit more environmentally friendly, Apple engineers designed a robotic arm named Liam, whose sole job is to…

A new hybrid material composed of stiff metal and soft rubber foam is paving the way for futuristic robots and aircraft that can transform from rigid to elastic shapes. Watch the morphing metal in the video below.…