What Will it Take for Apple’s Next Big Thing to be a Car?
If any big company can make a sudden and successful leap into the business of building cars, Apple would have to be considered the most likely candidate. The company, with $178 billion in cash...
View ArticleAre AGVs Ready for the Assembly Line?
A Michigan-based company is putting a new wrinkle on the decades-old concept of using automated guided vehicles (AGVs) on the factory floor. Combining a battery-free design with a smart electronic...
View ArticleManufacturing Industry Short on Tech Talent
America’s aging manufacturing base may finally be on the rebound, but it still faces an unexpected dilemma — lack of trained technical people to carry out the work. Experts at Manufacturing in America...
View ArticleWill H-1B Visas Kill Jobs or Ensure Survival of the Fittest?
In March, a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing explored the pros and cons of the H-1B program, just as executives from some of the country’s top tech companies, including Google, lobbied to increase...
View ArticleAudi’s New Controller Will Pave the Way for Autonomous Driving
The controller, designed to handle inputs from cameras, radar, Lidar, ultrasound, GPS, accelerometers, gyroscopes, and multiple other sensors, can reportedly be concealed in the sidewall of a car. Audi...
View Article7 Tips on Using Microminiature Connectors
As connectors get smaller, their importance is getting bigger. The reason for that is simple: products are shrinking. The electronics in cell phones, tablet computers, blood glucose monitors, and...
View ArticleSolving Urban Parking Problems
For city dwellers, finding a parking space can be a time-consuming and downright exasperating task. Now, however, engineers may have found a solution to that old urban problem. By designing a car that...
View ArticleMedical, Mining, Mousetraps, and More at Designers of Things
UBM’s recent Designers of Things (DoT) Conference in San Jose highlighted the work, not only of materials and components suppliers, but of the makers of innovative products from around the world....
View ArticleMaker Community Takes Up the FPGA
The powerful but complex field programmable gate array (FPGA), long considered a tool for the technical elite, is unexpectedly finding new popularity in the non-elite world of the maker community....
View ArticleHackable ESC Badge Powers Face-to-Face Networking
Some attendees at UBM’s Embedded Systems Conference in Boston last week received a special treat when 100 of them were given programmable, LED-based show badges powered by eight-bit microcontrollers....
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