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17 October 2011
The physical engineering of the second generation Macbook Air design is as important as the shift to a near fully solid state laptop.
Optical interconnect makes its return
17 October 2011
Electrical signalling has beaten off the challenge from optical communications a number of times in electronic systems, but connecting by light may be about to stage a comeback.
Korean technology - the quiet achievers
17 October 2011
Technological innovation is alive and well in Daejeon, South Korea, despite the continual threat of war with its northern neighbour.
17 October 2011
This month's book reviews turn up a good primer for AI enthusiasts, an overview of politics in the power sector, and a little bit of zero-gravity how's your father.
Geminoids and the new robot race
17 October 2011
If it looks like a human, acts like a human and talks like a human, how will we know it's a robot?
ICT reuse: better than recycling?
04 October 2011
Businesses are missing out on generating a new revenue stream by overlooking the monetary value of reusing old ICT.
Power pushes chipmakers to 3DIC
12 September 2011
Prohibitive costs threaten the future scaling of silicon technology, but it is power that is forcing a break to units stacked several layers deep.
M2M and the Internet of Things
12 September 2011
A rash of standardisation efforts and new technologies is bringing the so-called Internet of Things a step closer; should we be worried?
Interview - Konstantin Novoselov
12 September 2011
Konstantin Novoselov tells E&T how a Friday evening experiment led to the discovery of graphene and a 2010 Nobel Prize for Physics.
Will your mobile get caught app-napping?
15 August 2011
With 17 billion smartphone apps downloaded by the end of 2011, and Android apps having been compromised earlier in the year, how alert are we to the security dangers of the smartphone app?
Digital signs: public displays of interaction
15 August 2011
Digital signage is shifting the way many organisations interface with the world, and its success is driving innovation in areas like display and systems integration.
Drone warfare and the Geneva Convention
15 August 2011
Autonomous Weapon Systems are on the increase in modern war, but with them they bring serious moral, ethical and legal issues. Is the Geneva Convention about to be sidestepped?
Comment - Smart meters as a sales tool
15 August 2011
Energy companies should use technology to rebuild broken relationships with their customers, says Jenny Driscoll.
Military drones continue to take flight
15 August 2011
Drones are becoming ever more important in frontline conflict. Here we look at the many ways in which these complex machines have infiltrated the combat arena.
IT can learn from hardware designers
11 July 2011
Designers of electronic hardware and critical embedded systems have embraced techniques to avoid expensive errors. Mainstream IT could learn from the experience.
Communications designers grapple with material choices
29 June 2011
The pressure to keep improving the performance and efficiency of communications hardware is forcing chip designers to consider new materials.
Graphene devices could speed comms
29 June 2011
A new class of devices built using a special form of carbon could transform the communications industry.
Interview: Helga Nowotny, ERC President
13 June 2011
What motivates Helga Nowotny, president of the European Research Council, into her sixth decade of encouragement for engineers to be adventurous in their research?
Teardown - The Hitachi microdrive
13 June 2011
The one-inch IBM/Hitachi Microdrive was for years the world's smallest hard-drive. We open one up to see what's inside.
Taiwan brands full steam ahead
13 June 2011
Taiwan, The Republic of China was capitalist long before Beijing embraced free enterprise – so can the mainland learn from its diminutive companion?
Photo Competition: Can you tell what it is?
13 June 2011
Your chance to win a prize by simply guessing what the role of our photo competition winner is. We'll give you a clue: it's in engineering.
Isle of Man re-engineers its economy
13 June 2011
As the UK and Irish economies threaten to sink without trace, the Isle of Man is getting along nicely - and even has room for a Space industry. E&T says 'fastyr mie' to the Isle of Man.
Blueprint for innovation clusters
16 May 2011
Everyone wants to emulate Silicon Valley, but clusters are rarely the result of central planning.
15 April 2011
'At the next left, you have arrived at the wrong destination.' How vulnerable are we to the loss of GPS signals, and how can we reduce the risk from natural or malicious jamming?
Demand-side economics concern over Japanese quake aftermath
15 April 2011
Japan's consumption of electronics and knock-on effects on global sales are worrying analysts
15 April 2011
When the iPad was first released it was a new innovation and competition was non-existent. Now there is a wealth of choice out there for consumers.
Baseband design boom fuelled by cutting edge and emerging markets
15 April 2011
A smorgasbord of new chips aims to feed market-wide demand for smartphones
14 March 2011
Intel, Samsung and healthcare made headlines at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC)
Towards the mysteries of the Big Bang
14 February 2011
The Large Hadron Collider and the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider are two of the most amazing machines ever built. We bring you exclusive reports from both.
Owning tomorrow: Intel's TV push
14 February 2011
As buses drew up outside the Consumer Electronics Show, and 140,000 potential customers disembarked, Intel began working the crowd. What were they pushing? Television.
14 February 2011
Healthcare technology is tapping into consumer electronics as it waits for the professional market to mature.
The code-breakers you don't know
09 February 2011
The contribution made by the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park is well documented, but its First World War precursor has received much less attention.
Profile: Turing Lecturer Donald Knuth
02 February 2011
Meet the one and only professor of the art of computer progamming, algorithmic artist Don Knuth
17 January 2011
The recent International Electron Devices Meeting showed how chipmakers are striving to look to the future while having to innovate to preserve the present.
17 January 2011
As Dilma Russeff gets sworn in as the first ever female President of Brazil, E&T looks at the country’s growing reputation as an up-and-coming world superpower.
E-cigarettes: Is smoking about to come back into fashion?
17 January 2011
This New Year, thousands of people pledged to stop smoking once and for all. Some 95 per cent of them will make the same pledge again next year. One product may stop this frustrating tradition.
Will e-readers dominate this year’s Christmas market?
07 December 2010
If you believed the start-of-the-year hype, an e-reader should now be on the top of everyone's Christmas wish list. But with a confusing array of technologies, stiff competition from tablet computers and some manufacturers going bankrupt, it is difficult to say whether 2010 really has been the year of the e-reader.
07 December 2010
Gibson's new Firebird X guitar is as much an exercise in design integration as any mobile device.
07 December 2010
The US sees electronics as a leading enabler for nanotechnology's next decade.
07 December 2010
Many will have had their view of archaeology provided by episodes of 'Time Team', but what equipment does the modern archaeologist have at hand?
07 December 2010
Predicting what will be the hit toy at Christmas is nearly impossible and identifying what technology will be in that toy is even more difficult explains E&T.
Consumer electronics market set to bounce back
07 December 2010
Christmas shoppers are eyeing up the latest gadgets. E&T finds out about a consumer resurgence.
Interview: Joep van Beurden, CEO of wireless chip maker CSR
07 December 2010
What do you do when the invisible hand of the market gives you a really good shellacking? CSR boss Joep van Beurden explains his strategy for the wireless chip company to E&T.
08 November 2010
Depositing the features on semiconductors is no easy task, and existing tools have reached their limit, says E&T.
First humanoid Robonaut reaches the International Space Station
08 November 2010
Semi-autonomous robots are on duty throughout the solar system – but one passenger aboard Nasa's STS-133 may just ignite the popular imagination.
20 years ago today - the making of ARM
08 November 2010
ARM turns 20 at the end of November. The company nearly didn't make it past its first birthday but now produces the most widely used microprocessor architecture. E&T talks to Sir Robin Saxby and finds out how ARM pulled it off.
Analysis: electronica shifts emphasis
08 November 2010
E&T notes that a trade show once dedicated to electronic components is shifting its emphasis towards software and the virtual world.
Dr Morris Chang interview: Making it big
18 October 2010
Chip pioneer Morris Chang has returned to head up the world's largest chip foundry in bullish style - but is he worried by the onset of expanding competition?
Analysis: UN seeks business backing to meet Millennium goals
04 October 2010
Technology and private-sector funding will drive progress towards the UN's ambitious development goals.
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