Intelligent Machines All (Digital) Eyes Are on Discovery Imaging and sensor technologies will play a key role in making NASA shuttle flights safer. by Eric S. Brown 2005-07-13T00:00:00-04:00
Intelligent Machines The Atomic Battery A breakthrough in betavoltaics could mean a 10-year battery life for sensors and medical implants. by Eric S. Brown 2005-06-16T00:00:00-04:00
News Adventures in the Skin Trade NTT Lab wants to build commercial technologies using its RedTacton technology, which enables devices to communicate by using the electrical fields on the human skin. by Eric S. Brown 2005-04-29T00:00:00-04:00
Intelligent Machines Strained Days Indeed With strained-silicon technologies such as the new Dual Stress Liner from AMD and IBM, semiconductor companies are focusing on power efficiency as much as they are on speed. by Eric S. Brown 2005-02-03T00:00:00-05:00
News The Call to Voice Voice over IP may be built upon broadband, but it doesn’t need to follow the same anti-competitive path. In fact, the VoIP business could remain wild and wooly (and cheap). by Eric S. Brown 2004-12-09T00:00:00-05:00
News The Selling of Cell Phone TV Qualcomm and Texas Instruments have unveiled two competing schemes for delivering video to cell phones that bypass 3G. Is the market big enough to get them off the ground? by Eric S. Brown 2004-11-11T00:00:00-05:00
Intelligent Machines Rightsizing TV Troubles in the rear-projection market may be a sign that TVs are finally getting too big. by Eric S. Brown 2004-11-02T00:00:00-05:00
News Can You See Me Now? Thanks to voice-over-IP, videoconferencing–the eternal technology of tomorrow–once again appears to be on the verge of success. by Eric S. Brown 2004-10-21T00:00:00-04:00
News Making Peace with the Phone Bill Sure, long distance costs are way down, but the typical household now spends vastly more on communications than before. MIT management professor Thomas Malone explains why that’s actually a good thing. by Eric S. Brown 2004-10-13T00:00:00-04:00
News 3G, American Style Broadband cell-phone services begin to roll out in the U.S., but face a standards mess–as well as competition from Wi-Fi. by Eric S. Brown 2004-09-22T00:00:00-04:00