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Monthly Archives: November 2006

AA/AAA battery charger, Zigbee kit, 1-V op amp, PIC MCUs

Thursday, November 30, 2006

Today’s new product picks at Electronic Products: A smart battery charger from Maha Energy can handle up to 8 AA or AAA cells simultaneously A ZigBee application kit from Rabbit Semiconductor interfaces an Ethernet-enabled RabbitCore module with MaxStream XBee wireless ZigBee modules An operational amplifier from National Semiconductor delivers a 2.7-MHz unity-gain bandwidth while maintaining [...]

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A Teutonic Technology Tour – a visit to the 2006 Electronica show

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

It’s always a blast to get to see tech up close and personal, and the 2006 Electronica Show in Munich, Germany gave everyone a great chance to do so. Just so we don’t forget where all those chips come from, Freescale had a raw 300-mm silicon ingot at their booth. I think you can pull [...]

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For sale: X-ray vision

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Great Caesar’s Ghost! Cambridge Consultants (Cambridge, UK, and Boston, MA, USA) has just brought to market a portable system, dubbed prism 200, that employs ultra-wide band (UWB) radar pulses to see through walls, giving users a high-tech equivalent of Superman’s X-ray vision. Developed over the last two years, the system would allow military, security, and [...]

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HID ballast, 1-Tbyte HDD, FM transmitter, OLED

Monday, November 27, 2006

Today’s new product picks at Electronic Products: An electronic HID ballast from Advance is intended to drive ceramic metal halide lamps An external hard disk drive from Western Digital uses RAID technology and features 1-Tbyte capacity An FM transmitter family from Silicon Laboratories adds wireless FM audio playback capability to any portable media device A [...]

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Flexible fan, 1-W LED, sonar ranging module, lithium batteries

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Today’s new product picks at Electronic Products: A flexible fan from Antec features a bendable stem, rotating head, three-speed switch, and blue LED lights A 1-W LED from OPTEK Technology can mount flat on the PCB without indentation of the board surface A sonar ranging module from SensComp operates on 5 Vdc and provides a [...]

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Music Magic: Have any notes up your sleeve?

Monday, November 20, 2006

Passionate but hopelessly talentless air guitarists now have a means to express their own creativity without the hassle of hauling around a guitar or amplifier: the Wearable Instrument Shirt (WIS). Developed by a team of engineers at Csiro Textiles (Clayton, Australia), the WIS features textile motion sensors embedded in shirt sleeves that detect motion when the ”musician’s” arm bends. “It [...]

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LED R-16 lamp, SDR platform, hands-free kit, aluminum caps

Monday, November 13, 2006

Today’s new product picks at Electronic Products: An LED-based R-16 Edison-base light from Lighting Science Group can deliver up to 175 lm A Software Defined Radio development platform from Texas Instruments provides the entire signal chain hardware from antenna to baseband A hands-free Kit reference design from Texas Instruments simplifies system design of hands-free cellular [...]

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