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An interesting one to flag, under our Digital Life category: a docu-drama from David Bond on the telly tonight.
Electronics Weekly's esteemed Component Editor, David Manners, has many virtues, but I'm sorry to say it seems constancy is not one of them. Not when it comes to an Apple iPad..."Do I want to pay another £30 a month to a network operator? Do I want to carry around a ten inch screen? Do I want to read books on a bright screen?"
The latest Q5 interview is now online and is with the chief operating officer of Rapid Electronics.Continue reading "Q5 Interview - Ron McConnachie, Rapid Electronics" »
In this fast-paced, ever-changing world, with all the high pressure and information overload, it's sometimes good to get back to the old, slow, peaceful ways... Like staring into an open fire, contemplating, and occasionally poking a log...Continue reading "Digital Life: Staring into a crackling open fire" »
The latest Q5 interview is now online, with the v-p of sales and support in Europe for chip design tool firm Altium.
The latest Q45 interview is now online, with the country director of Avnet Memec UK.Continue reading "Q5 Interview - Chris Shipway, Avnet Memec UK" »
An Engineer in Wonderland has a new home. You can find this particular entry here. If you wish to leave a comment, please do that on the new blog.
Last year, I bought two venus fly traps, one for a friend and one for me.
We fell to discussing how this insect eating plant avoids eating the insects that it relies on for pollination.
We speculated that the traps would close up during the 'mating' season.
We speculated that the traps' ultraviolet signature would change.
Then they flowered and we discovered we were wrong.
Continue reading "An Engineer in Wonderland - Nature isn't always elegant" »
Don't miss a new LED article that has been added to the site. It is already proving very popular, ranking among the most-viewed. See - LEDs can be light bulbs.Continue reading "How to make an LED light bulb behave like the real thing" »
An Engineer in Wonderland has a new home. You can find this particular entry here. If you wish to leave a comment, please do that on the new blog.
"The UK radio industry today launched a major cross-industry consumer initiative and marketing campaign - the Radio Amnesty - offering consumers a discount on a new digital radio in exchange for their analogue radio, which will be reconditioned and given to needy children in Africa."
- Industry body Digital Radio UK.
WHAT????
It has become a crime to have an analogue radio?
Continue reading "An Engineer in Wonderland - Radio bloody amnesty" »
I suppose it had to happen, Google bringing search to the television. AKA Google TV, it seems to be Mountain View's bid to establish a home entertainment hub.
An Engineer in Wonderland has a new home. You can find this particular entry here. If you wish to leave a comment, please do that on the new blog.
Dr Craig Venter claims to have made a synthetic bacterial cell.
However, as far as I can tell - and I am sorry for any errors here - he has:
Read the DNA of an existing bacteria - Mycoplasma mycoides
Synthesised that DNA, adding some sections to aid assembly
Inserted the synthetic DNA into a bacteria whose own DNA had been removed
Persuaded the resulting cell or cells to multiply
Continue reading "An Engineer in Wonderland - Artificial life, but not as we'll know it" »
The latest Q5 industry interview is now online - with the Managing Director of Murata Electronics UK.Continue reading "Q5 Interview - Glenn Palmer, Murata Electronics UK" »
An Engineer in Wonderland has a new home. You can find this particular entry here. If you wish to leave a comment, please do that on the new blog.
The great heavy electrical engineer Eric Laithwaite, at one of his legendary Christmas Lectures, displayed a chart which equated magnetic, electric, thermal and mechanical quantities such as inductance and thermal inertia.
Does anyone remember how it went?
Continue reading "An Engineer in Wonderland - Mr Laithwaite's informative chart" »
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