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 | December 19, 2014 | Enabling Tech
Researchers at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore have come up with a way to fabricate complex electronic devices using an inexpensive t-shirt printer. The process is non-toxic and simple. The circuits are created by “additive...
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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...
by Alfred Poor | July 31, 2014 | Enabling Tech
Energy harvesting collects power from ambient sources, such as heat, light, or motion, and converts it into another form of energy. In most cases, it produces electricity to do useful work or to be stored for use later. One missing piece, however, is computing...
