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Wireless charging: convenience over efficiency?
From phones and cameras to notebooks and fitness monitors, there’s a whole array of portable electronic tools helping us to work, play or stay informed. Until recently the only way to charge these...
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Do engineers need to be designers, or even artists?
Allowing people to build almost anything, simply and cheaply, 3D printing is the hobbyist’s dream tool. It’s also a technology which brings a new meaning to the term ‘rapid prototyping’, and gives...
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People, pundits and hi-tech companies have been raving about the ‘Connected Home’ for many years now. The necessary technologies were developed some time ago, and products based on these technologies...
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Online learning: Who is the teacher?
In the past, learning required going to school or university and taking classes. Nowadays, with the high speed internet connections becoming ubiquitous, online courses are also becoming commonplace....
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Ubiquitous processing power and single-board computers
Back in the dim, distant past, the personal computer revolution began. Small, low-cost PCs gave everyone the chance to discover the art of programming and carry out simple tasks. But with an 8-bit Z80...
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