by Alfred Poor | February 13, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
70 years ago, a discovery was made at Bell Labs in New Jersey that changed the course of human civilization. Three researchers — Shockley, Bardeen, and Brattain — created a switch with no moving parts. By applying a current to one lead, they could control...
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by Alfred Poor | February 10, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
Digital wearable Health Tech devices require power, and this usually takes the form of electricity. Some devices can harvest the energy that they need from their surroundings, using heat, motion, light, or even radio frequency (RF) waves, but most devices use some...
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by Alfred Poor | September 16, 2014 | Enabling Tech
Credit: Amin Arbabian When I was in grade school, my parents bought me a transistor radio. It was about the size of a dictionary, but it ran on batteries and I could put it under my pillow and listen to the Baltimore Orioles’ games as I fell asleep. It was so...
