September 2010 The Evolution of the Airplane Black Box      Flight data recorders and cockpit voice recorders are reactive devices. If they aren't found they can't help the investigators determine why the plane crashed.      TheTerrastar in-flight monitoring system uses proactive black boxes that transmit the data that it collects during the actual airplane flight. Company leaders feel that their system can pick up flight anomalies and provide the information to the flight crew and ground crew while the plane is flying long before a catastrophic problem causes an airplane to crash. Click to Read the Full Story	Click to Read the Full Story Click to Read the Full Story Evolution_of_Airplane_Black_Box.pdf Read/Download as a PDF	August 2010  The Artificial Leaf Scientists have created the artificial leaf Significance of the Breakthrough In time artificial photosynthesis could become an inexpensive way to produce hydrogen from water. eThis hydrogen could then be used as a fuel to run electric generators and fuel cells. Split water using solar during the day and then use the hydrogen to generate electricity at night. Artificial photosynthesis could become the dream energy storage system for solar power. Click to Read How it was Done	Click to Read
May 2010 Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) ='s Clean Inexpensive Electricity      The engineers and technologists at eSolar, and the company’s key investor, Google, believe they are now ready to build rapidly deployable concentrating solar power (CSP) plants throughout the world. They expect their CSP plants to eventually produce electricity at coal-electricity generated prices.      A concentrating solar power plant uses relatively inexpensive components to generate electricity. The concept behind CSP is easy to understand: Mirrors are used to focus the sun’s heat onto a boiler. This solar heating is intense enough to generate steam, which spins an electric generator to produce electricity.	Click to Read Concentrating_Solar_Power.pdf Read/Download a PDF	April 2010 The Telephone Joins the Internet Phone services, many free,  are now being performed over the Internet. 1. You can now make phone calls on your IPod touch. 2. Your smartphone can work with a Wi-Fi connection. So you can use VOIP to transmit voice and data over a Wi-Fi connection when home and then automatically connect to your cellphone provider when Wi-Fi isn't available. 3. Why pay your Internet provider for phone service when you can just buy parallel equipment and forget monthly bills?	Click to Read Telephone_Joins_Internet.pdf Read/Download the PDF
March 2010 SSD vs HDD the Battle Begins      Google’s new Chrome OS is about to show up in a slew of new netbook computers that will all have SSDs.      SSDs are already the mass storage system of choice in cell phones, many iPod models, and most other small handheld electronic devices. Is the SSD about to become the mass storage device of choice? How is an SSD superior to an HDD? How difficult is it to replace an HDD with an SSD in a Netbook Computer?	Click to Read Emergence_Solid_State_Drive.pdf Click to Read or Dowload as a PDF	February 2010 EBF3 A ‘Star Trek’- Worthy Replicator      EBF3 Is a new manufacturing technology recently invented by NASA scientists. This mfg process has already been tested in zero gravity.      Here on earth, EBF3 must be performed in a vacuum chamber. Without a doubt, what it can actually create parallels the function of the Replicator from Star Trek.      EBF3 is not a prototyping process. EBF3 creates metal products that astronauts in space and people here on earth might use right out of the machine.	Click to Read
January 2010 TV Joins the Internet Over time, television went from black-and-white to color, from fuzzy images to super sharp highdefinition images, and from small screens in very large, heavy cabinets to relatively light, giant screens that you can hang on your wall. Many new TV models now come with built-in modules that allow viewers to easily stream Internet content from their home broadband wired or wireless network. This column explores TV's  evolution to the internet. Click to Read	Click to Read Click Icon for a PDF Download	December 2009 A Second Chance at Sight      The bionic dream is to one day be able to replace human parts with biomedical cellular reconstructed organs or electro-mechanical systems. These systems will restore or enhance physical abilities to pre-damaged conditions.      The eye implant described in this month's column is the product of twenty years of research and development. The collaborators include engineers, scientists, and medical doctors from MIT, Harvard Medical School, Cornell University, and the Boston VA Medical Center. Click to Read	. Click to Read
November 2009 Recharging Electronic Devices with Ease      A recent MIT breakthrough in resonant magnetic coupling (WiTricity) will one day allow all battery operated devices to recharge without wires. Imagine a new technology that lets you charge everything (hearing aides to electric cars) wirelessly by drawing power through the air.      Powermat is the first company to introduce a very interesting WiTricity product. Energizer has come up with a less high tech but extremely effective way to get rid of all the chargers that came with your electronic devices. These topics are all covered in this column.	Recharging Electronic Devices with Ease Just click to Read the Full Story	October 2009 Drive by Wire     The drive-by-wire concept calls for the transfer of the control of a vehicle from the driver to an automated system that controls the vehicle’s steering, engine throttle, and brakes.      Today’s automotive engineers are now taking an incremental approach to turn new car safety technologies, over time, into an autonomous vehicle navigation drive-by-wire system. How close are we now to the dream?	The Dream Becomes an Incremental Reality Click to Read Online
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