Editors’ picks

An innovative thermal fluid based plastic recycling method has been manufactured that can work effectively at the upper and lower ends of the heating cycle.

Comparing two wireless solutions and examining their relative merits in a home networking environment.

New technical challenges often give old technologies a new lease of life. It may come as no surprise then to discover that the emergent Internet of Things - the "next big thing" - might just have a small place for that old favourite of the maverick engineer; the good old stiction motor!

3D digital scanning specialist Physical Digital has captured the very essence of the last airworthy Spitfire.

Understanding your supply chain can go a long way towards removing the bottlenecks that will inevitably arise when taking a new product through design and into manufacture.

Cars have seen great improvements in styling, safety and performance over the last 40 years. The next area for evolution is likely to be the interior, in particular the interfaces between the car systems and the occupants.

3D digital scanning specialist Physical Digital has captured the very essence of the last airworthy Spitfire.

Cars have seen great improvements in styling, safety and performance over the last 40 years. The next area for evolution is likely to be the interior, in particular the interfaces between the car systems and the occupants.

There's no need for an either/or decision – the goal should be to blend 2D and 3D design tools and processes, and get the best of both.

A professor from the School of Design at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University presents details about the first highly interactive donation system, providing a user-friendly multimedia interface for promoting, motivating and assisting people to make donations at any particular time.

Presenting innovative silicon integration, power-system-in-package and proprietary control architectures to enable benchmark isolated DC-DC performance in an ultra-small form factor.

There has been widespread coverage of the Gulf of Mexico disaster in many news papers but the report which is more interesting to control systems engineers, was published in The Times on the May 18^th 

Could better aircraft communications help make aircraft black boxes obsolete?

Network enabled trains integrate security, surveillance, passenger counting and infotainment technologies.

Mobile operators could benefit from understanding how customers experience their services 

Linux is firmly established in the embedded market, but migrating existing source code to the operating system is a considerable undertaking. This article explores the steps necessary to migrate, the technical requirements and possible pitfalls and the differences between buying an established Linux implementation and developing one internally.

Marty Colombatto, chief executive officer of wireless USB chip company Staccato Communications, says that the ultra-wideband based technology is just beginning to take off.