Coming to an airport near you
by Christina Nickolas
I was a bit late to work today, because the Today Show was featuring the new whole-body-imaging x-ray machine that is available now at some airports, so I wanted to see how it really works. After seeing the demo in which both a man and a woman were tested, it didn’t seem that it would violate my privacy in any way, unlike the controversy it generated when it was first announced.
Wireless social networking revolution poised to reshape tech industry
by Bryan DeLuca
The wireless social networking revolution is coming.
Wireless social networking stands to revolutionize the global technology business, representing a vast opportunity that will reshape the global display and semiconductor industries, according to iSuppli Corp. By 2020, the wireless social networking value chainincluding products, services, applications, components and advertising—will generate more than $2.5 trillion in revenue.
An iPod-sized portable video projector
by Richard Comerford
Optoma Technology (Milpitas, CA) is showing a handheld portable video projector based on the Texas Instruments’ DLP Pico Chipset at Texas Instrument’s InfoComm 2008 booth in Las Vegas, NV.
The Best of Our Network
There are now over 100 videos available on the Electronic Products Multimedia Network
With new content being added every day, our Multimedia Network has expanded to include over 100 great videos in a variety of product categories. All videos on the Multimedia page at Electronicproducts.com are searchable by keyword and offer bookmarking and email features. Users can also subscribe to our video RSS feeds for updates.
What’s Inside? — Product Teardowns
What’s Inside? on Electronicproducts.com provides complete product teardowns of some of the best selling consumer products on the market today, such as the Apple iPod Nano (4GB), the Nokia N95 and over 40 others. Each teardown includes full details of all the components, as well as a link to their datasheets.
Next Month
Autotestcon 2008
Autotestcon — to be held September 8 to 11 in Salt Lake City, UT — covers computer-controlled test systems and techniques from the hardware/software design stage through manufacturing and field service, examining emerging technologies and concepts on a systems engineering level. This article will cover some of the products and technologies that will be exhibited at the conference.
Product Update: Power Management ICs
This Product Update will cover new and recently released ICs used in various power supply applications. The article will include: voltage regulators, dc/dc converters, and pulse-width-modulation (PWM) controllers, as well as battery and power management devices.
Industrial/Automation Electronics Forum
This will include a forum among representatives from a variety of suppliers of industrial electronics, as well as a Product Round-Up covering recently released products targeting the industrial electronics market.
Application Focus: Medical Electronics
This application focus on medical electronics will combine an industry overview with product and technology coverage in one or more of the following areas: passives and electromechanical components, connectors and sockets, sensors and transducers, analog and digital ICs, power sources, optoelectronics.
Product Roundup: Memory & Storage
Covering FRAM, PRAM, RRAM, SRAM, and all other state-of-the-art memory technologies, these articles will also cover flash and disk storage devices.
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