What to get the kids this holiday? Here are some suggestions.
If you're looking techie-ish gifts for your kids, Wired and Engadget have pulled together some lists.
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EE Times turns 50 – Hall of Fame Part 2
As part of EE Time’s 50th anniversary celebration, they’ve created a virtual “Hall of Fame” for engineers “who have helped make the industry safer and cleaner!”
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EE Times turns 50: The “safer and cleaner” industry Hall of Fame – Part 1
As part of the EE Times 50th anniversary, they've created a virtual Hall of Fame for engineers who've made special contributions to electronics industry safety. Two of the Hall of Famers are Ed Sawicki and Neal Langerman.
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Halloween: yet another area where technology has made inroads
Halloween is one area where technology has definitely encroached, and much of that encroachment has occurred when it comes to decorations.
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The Internet of Plants and Trees
Lots going on out there in the Internet of Plants and Trees
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Coming soon to a store near you: robotic clothing
"...In university labs across the world, material scientists, computer programmers and fabric designers are working to advance robotic clothing at a rapid pace.” And these labs are focusing, for the most part, on life-enhancing applications.
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Necrobotics? Who knew?
I’ve been interested in robotics going back to my college days and have kept a pretty close eye on the amazing strides that have been made over the years. So I’m finding Rice University’s use of dead spiders to do some robotic lifting especially amazing.
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The Show’s Going on – with Holographic Animals!
Several years ago, German-based Circus Roncalli is still featuring wild animals. Only the animals they’re using are 3-D holograms.
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Some cool new cooling technology
There are a number of new approaches to air conditioning in the works, and I recently came across a roundup of some of the emerging ideas in an article by Robin Fearon that appeared on Discovery.com.
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Silicon Photonics: helping Moore’s Law keep up
Moore’s Law has been around a long time. Even longer than I have been. Glad to see that, with a lift from silicon photonics (and new packaging approaches) it may well last a while longer.
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