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Monthly Archives: April 2006

750-GB hard drive, TFT LCD, UWB eval boards, PoE dc/dc splitters

Friday, April 28, 2006

Today’s product picks at Electronic Products: A 750-GB hard drive from Seagate Technology maximizes performance and reliability by adjusting the fly height according to changes in operating temperature A 2.22-in. color TFT AMLCD module from Microtips Technology provides a QVGA screen resolution and is available with or without touchscreen WiMedia and wireless USB development tools [...]

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Tiny wireless device to improve cancer treatment

Friday, April 28, 2006

Engineers at Purdue University are creating a wireless device the size of a rice grain that could be implanted in tumors to tell doctors the precise dose of radiation received and locate the exact position of tumors during treatment. This is a big step towards the increased use of implantable devices for treatment, and heralds [...]

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LED light strips, HV diode, ultraprecision resistors, handheld NIR spectrometer

Thursday, April 27, 2006

Today’s product picks at Electronic Products: White 5-mm LED light strips from Ledtronics may be used alone or connected to one another A high-voltage diode from HV Component Associates is rated to 7,000 V at temperatures of up to 200°C Ultraprecision film resistors from Caddock Electronics offer resistances from 50 W to 25 MW, tolerances [...]

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LED display lighting webcast focuses on power

Thursday, April 27, 2006

Analog designers interested in LED lighting won’t want to miss “Power Concerns for LEDs Used for Display Lighting,” an Analog eLab webcast scheduled for May 10, and presented by Texas Instruments and Arrow Electronics. The one-hour webcast is intended to provide a fundamental understanding of the issues, important features, and current methods and practices used [...]

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Help Wanted: Electronics “Imagineer”

Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Watching TV recently I happened to catch part of Michael Eisner‘s new show (Conversations With Michael Eisner) in which he interviewed Bran Ferren, a designer and technologist working in entertainment, product development, engineering, architecture, and the sciences. Ferren, former President of Research & Development and Creative Technology for Walt Disney Imagineering, had some very interesting [...]

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Phone memory expansion may challenge iPod

Wednesday, April 26, 2006

This is yet another part of the conversion issue I’ve brought up before. During the last two years, there has been a rapid adoption of small format removable memory cards in cell phones, about 160 percent growth in global slotted phone sales between 2004 and 2005, according to the latest report from the Strategy Analytics [...]

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5-Mpixel imager, power meter ICs, digital music IC, portable radio tester

Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Today’s product picks at Electronic Products: A 5-Mpixel CMOS camera chip from OmniVision Technologies is able to provide high-resolution still images as well as deliver video at rates to 60 fps Polyphase energy-metering ICs from Analog Devices provide watt-hour information using pulse outputs that can directly drive stepper motor displays found in revenue meters or [...]

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