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John Filippelli joined Electronic Products Magazine as Managing Editor in 2011 and oversees the daily editorial processes for the Hearst Electronics Group. A publishing veteran, Mr. Filippelli spent the previous decade as managing editor, and then senior editor, for other leading trade publications. He has also spent time on daily newspapers earlier in his career. Mr. Filippelli holds a B.A from Dowling College in Oakdale, NY.

Music, to, and for, our engineering ears!

If you’re like me, and love music, then some recent engineering innovations geared toward the music lover will surely delight you!  While we all can’t be Tchaikovsky, that doesn’t mean our level of enjoying – and in some cases creating – music can’t be magnified. Take the O-Bow, created by UK-based technology lecturer Dylan Menzies [...]

Come to Your Senses!

I won’t say how long it’s been – I’d be dating myself – but I remember vividly when one of my college professors told our class that there were not five human senses, as is commonly assumed, there are actually 10. He laid out that in addition to sight, touch, taste, hearing and smell, there [...]

Twitter’s Heartbeat and the Human Condition

Using Twitter a day will keep the doctor away. That’s right, forget having that daily apple, your health may very well be improved simply by using Twitter through well…. Apple. And it’s all account of engineers. What am I talking about? Well, since Twitter is built on open source software, Twitter engineers use, contribute to [...]

Is a picture worth 140 characters?

Do you ever wonder about the true power of electronics? I do, and when I do, it always comes back to synergy: How multiple things work together to create a desired result. In that sense, especially when it comes to the devices that maximize the use of social media, synergy among the electronic components is [...]

Let’s Leave a Time Capsule

If we were to bury a time capsule (or at least keep it in a safe) for say, two hundred years, what items do you think would be most likely to be included? And perhaps, more importantly, what do you think poeple would say about the items they found? Would it be the iPad or [...]

Building a better moustrap

I went for a jog the other day and as I started to cross an intersection a man’s voice grabbed my attention. It was emotionless; not quite stern, but it stood out, and made me stop – literally. The reason this was so odd is that at that very moment there was literally no one [...]

Advancing at our own pace

Many of us have seen the YouTube video where a woman, innocently walking and texting, falls into a large fountain at a mall, completely unaware. The video was very popular a while back, and while some found it humorous in a Three Stooges sort of way, it actually highlights a growing trend of accidents that [...]