Tag: electronics

WiTricity? Why not?

Unless it’s your smoke alarm saving your life, mysterious electronic beeping in the middle of the night is highly annoying. It certainly annoyed Marin Soljacic a few years ago when he found himself standing in his kitchen in his pajamas in the middle of the night for about the sixth time in a month, staring …

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Wi-Fi is so last year…

…are you ready for wireless electricity?

I can see clearly now…

…my transistors are transparent: Imagine a car windshield that displays a map to your destination, military goggles with targets and instructions displayed right before a soldier’s eyes or a billboard that doubles as a window. Only in science fiction you say? Northwestern University researchers report that by combining organic and inorganic materials they have produced …

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Resistors

Recently there’s been quite a lot of talk about new high-temperature superconductors and how they may revolutionize technology. (In fact, some of that talk was mine, since I wrote a column on superconductivity a while back.) Superconductors are materials that transmit electricity perfectly–in other words, materials in which, once electrons start to flow, they never …

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