Category: Engineering & Technology

  • Light Cameras

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    DSLR or Digital Single Lens Reflex Camera Ignoring the play on words, the light camera is a major breakthrough in the use of multiple optical viewpoint cameras to create synthetic images that can be taken with something the size of a smart phone and rivals DSLR Camera photographs.   And spoiler alert, I’m getting one…

  • Mechanical Gears Breakthrough

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    Mechanisms Mechanisms are important in many aspects of modern life. They adjust the focus on your smart phone camera, put the wheels down when a plane is coming in to land, allows automobiles, trains, trucks and ships to move and even allow probes to roam about on the surface of Mars.   So I was…

  • Schools of the Future

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    Schools Today The modern school as we know it was designed to provide workers for the expanding paradigm of the Industrial Revolution. That is, the first Industrial Revolution. We are now up to the Fourth Industrial Revolution, also known as Industry 4.0. So how well are we doing three Industrial Revolutions later?     First…

  • LED Street Lighting

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    LED Street Lighting With concern for rising global emissions and the majority of the worlds power still generated by burning fuels of one kind of another, the replacement of older street lighting technologies with higher efficiency and longer life LED Street Lighting would appear to make sense. And on the up side, everyone agrees that…

  • Nanowires Enable FinFET Successor

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    FinFETs Rule At the moment, the dominant transistor technology used to make high density silicon devices is the FinFET. This is made using vertical fins allowing the gate to wrap around the Source and Drain. This improves control of the channel.   Some additional details are available at FinFET   FinFETs have dominated dense semiconductor…