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Another classic Dilbert - Carbon-based life-forms

Don’t forget to keep an eye on Dilbert – there’s a new cartoon each day – the freshest, latest version. Simply bookmark electronicsweekly.com/dilbert

I particularly like today’s…. “Do you know what Steve Jobs, Warren Buffett, Gandhi, and Ryan Seacrest have in common?”

View the very latest Dilbert…

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IBM scanning tunneling microscope makes atom movie

“You’re about to see the movie that holds the Guinness World Records record for the World’s Smallest Stop-Motion Film (see how it was made at http://youtu.be/xA4QWwaweWA). The ability to move single atoms – the smallest particles of any element in the universe – is crucial to…

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Infographic: The evolution of video game controllers

I’m a sucker for a good infographic, and how about this one? The Evolution of Video Game Controllers.
It’s from PopChartLab, and is apparently available as a print (27-in x 39-in) for $36 online dollars.

The complete family tree of video game control schemes – including handhelds…

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Toshiba Electronics Education Zone - March update

Don’t forget to bookmark the Toshiba Electronics Education Zone on Electronics Weekly, providing design engineers with access to guides, whitepapers and videos – www.electronicsweekly.com/toshiba/Topics covered include ASIC, Memory, Microcontrollers, Mobile Peripherals, Optical Devices, Power, and SSDs.We are updating the Zone regularly, and recent new entries…

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Guest blog: How to store printed circuit boards with a silver finish

A guest blog post, written by Philip King, Director of Newbury Electronics.Printed circuit boards with a silver finish are very delicate and need to be handled with care. If you order assembled PCBs it’s also important that you store them with special care so they don’t get…

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See through 3D desktop - computing in your hand...

Could this be a future for computer interfaces? It is a very striking 3D system developed by Jinha Lee, It is part of a research project that he proposed and developed at Microsoft Applied Sciences Group, during his internship.’Computer scientist Ivan Sutherland once called a computer display “a looking…

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Happy Birthday Raspberry Pi!

It was at the end of February 2012 that the Raspberry Pi officially went on sale for the first time. So it’s Happy First Birthday to the Pi!Actually, it is not quite a full year, since it went on sale in a leap year on February 29th, so…

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Keep up with Embedded World AND Mobile World Congress

Like London buses, you wait months for a major electronics-related show and then two come along together…Keep on top of the latest news from Embedded World in Nuremberg – see Embedded World: Your Electronics Weekly guideAnd of course there is also the Mobile World Congress. read the latest developments…

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