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Pressure Monitoring Sensors Minimize HVAC Cost

Honeywell’s PX3 series heavy-duty pressure transducers span a pressure range from 15 to 700 psi.

ITT Completes Axtone Acquisition

ITT Inc. has acquired transportation and industrial component maker Axtone.

Engineering Dragonflies to Turn Them into Micro-Drones

Draper is working on a new approach to how surveillance, payload delivery and precision medicine is done.

Video: Watch the Three Winning Pods Race in SpaceX’s HyperLoop Competition

MIT, Delft University and the Technical University of Munich, Germany, were the big winners from the proposed future transportation initiative.

An Irreverent Look at the LED Industry

LEDs are the product of four disciplines, are a recent innovation, and manufacturers claim extremely long life and low heat emission. But, how do we know what's really going on with LEDs? Here’s an interview with an irreverent guy that likes to call it as he sees it…

Harvard Scientists Create Metallic Hydrogen

Harvard scientists have made a breakthrough that is being called “a very, very big deal,” and “the holy grail of high-pressure physics.”

Start-up Raises $23 Million to 3-D Print Sports Cars

The company says additive manufacturing will reduce the cost of building vehicles while lowering the weight and reducing fuel consumption

Researchers Develop Way to Improve 3D Holographic Displays

The development ups the performance of these displays by 2,600 times current technology

A2B® Transceivers Improve Bus-bandwidth Utilization

Analog Devices’ AD242x series Automotive Audio Bus transceivers transmit and receive audio and control data, plus clock and power, over a single, unshielded twisted-pair cable.

Material Technologies Bring Efficiency and Safety Reforms in the Lithium-ion Battery Market

The quest for freedom never ends—the most important being the freedom of mobility. It is due to this pursuit that urged mankind to invent machines that could take them to unexplored domains. It is the reason that people can fly at supersonic speed or can carry out long-distance commutes or communication.

Video: 3-D Printing Functional Human Skin

The development could be used for transplanting to patients or used in research for studying cosmetic, chemical or pharmaceutical products.

Umbrella Drone Helps You Fight the Rain

The adapted DJI Phantom 4 device automatically tracks and follows consumers via GPS.

U.S. Consumer Agency Calls for Higher Safety Standards in Lithium-ion Batteries

The lithium-ion battery used in HP notebook computers that were recalled because they can overheat, posing fire and burn hazards. Source: CPSC

Study Examines the Time it Takes to Regain Control of Self-driving Cars

Under non-critical conditions, drivers needed 1.9 to 25.7 seconds to take control from the autonomous driving system.

Junction Box Handles Solar Panels

TE Connectivity’s SOLARLOK PV Edge junction box offers shorter cross-connect foils and reduced dimensions for bifacial and half-cut solar panel applications.

ESD-rated Ceramic Caps Suit Automotive Apps

Kemet’s electrostatic discharge (ESD) rated ceramic capacitors come in 0603 EIA case sizes in a choice of automotive or commercial grades.

Finally, Graphene is a Superconductor!

Since the discovery of graphene in 2004, the scientific community has been waiting to prove that, besides all other characteristics, it has the capability to be a superconductor.