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Stony Brook U.’s Reality Deck Is A Dazzling Visual Display

Joe Desposito visits the Reality Deck at the CEWIT building at Stony Brook University for a tour and interview with Dr. Arie Kaufman
Content

Time Travel, Anyone?

This review of the time travel film, Looper, indicates that the movie falls short on this topic, and that time travel buffs should turn to some of the latest books on the topic...
COVID-19

Hands On With the Motorola Droid Razr M

A hands on look at the Motorola Droid Razr M as it compares with the author's Blackberry Bold and iPod Touch
Test & Measurement

National Instruments Changes the Test Game—Again

National Instruments introduced a Vector Signal Transceiver (VST) at NI Week 2012, calling it a new paradigm in test. The PXIe-based instrument combines a vector signal generator...
Boards

Curiosity Landing Shows NASA at its Best

Curiosity, NASA's 2000-lb Mars rover, landed safely on Mars with 10 scientific instruments in tow, ready for a two-year investigation of the Red Planet.
Embedded

Contemplating the Arrival of a $49 Android PC

VIA Technologies is about to launch a $49 Android-based PC. Editor-in-Chief Joe Desposito comments on the specs and the hype.
Content

Is It “Unreasonable” to Support a Young Entrepreneur?

About a year and a half ago, I was invited to participate in a media tour of the electronics industry in South Africa, specifically in the cities of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg...
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Protecting Documents Gets Faster, Easier and More Mobile

I’ve been on a quest for a while to find software or hardware that makes it easy to protect sensitive documents such as financial documents, schematics, correspondence, lists ...
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Fragile Electronics Get Help At This Year’s CES And From Previous Shows, Too

I heard about two product mishaps from my relatives over the holidays. One was caused by my 2-year old grandson who took a small metal object to an Apple iPad2 screen and cracked...
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Searching for an Elegant Solution to the Auto Format Date and Time Quirks in Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel is without doubt a terrific program and one that is used by many design engineers. However, a couple of its quirks have been annoying me for years. One is the ...