by Alfred Poor | August 5, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
You don’t see this in your typical science fiction space Western movie, but the fact is that stuff wears out and breaks. People traveling to Mars aren’t going to be able to carry enough spare parts to fix everything; they’re going to need a way to...
by Alfred Poor | February 25, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Sticky notes, aluminum foil, sponges, tape: it sounds like the recipe for a MacGyver escape device, but it’s not. In a field dominated by high-tech processes and painstakingly-engineered materials, a group of researchers have come up with a low cost design for...
by Alfred Poor | May 20, 2015 | Enabling Tech
A little smudge of carbon could make a huge difference in wireless Health Tech devices. Researchers at the University of Manchester in England have developed a way to print graphene antennas that could lead to low-cost, flexible antennas for everything from RFID tags...
by Alfred Poor | April 23, 2015 | Enabling Tech
It is reasonable to claim that the electronics revolution began in 1947 with the discovery of the solid state transistor by Bardeen, Brattain, and Shockley at Bell Labs. This led to portable electronics, the integrated circuit, and eventually computer chips. These...
by Alfred Poor | April 23, 2015 | Enabling Tech
If you need diagnostic work done these days, you typically have to provide some blood or other sample that gets shipped off to a lab somewhere. Then you wait for the results to come back. Wouldn’t it be great if you could find out the answers right away?...
