7th April 2011 — The electro expo consortium test the date of his second free event for electronics design and test engineers has announced. The venue? A return to Bletchley Park Mansion, former home of the WWII code breakers and now the National Museum of Computing host.


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Oxford PV was spun from the University of Oxford to develop solar cell window.

From the Clarendon Laboratory, its basic technology, a screen-printable Solid-state dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) is.


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University of Manchester researchers have transformed graph in a semiconductor.

The key has been fully fluorinated material, turning it into the two-dimensional equivalent of the Teflon-dimensional molecule.


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Designer viruses to produce one day nanoscale logic.

Or as one of the researchers speculated share their thoughts before the conference on the future of nanoscience.


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Where to find the most accurate digital-analog converter (DAC) in the world, and the fastest oscilloscope on the planet?

Middlesex is the answer, at the National Physical Laboratory — the home of British precision measurement and guardian of his physical standards.


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Nobody likes bills. And with the number of «must-need» services rising, thrifty consumers are looking for ways to consolidate services and shave off unnecessary expenses. One such move that more people are making is cutting out the cable bill and getting their entertainment fix via satellite internet. For some, it's a savings of nearly $100 each month, which can add up pretty quickly in today's economy. But how exactly is this done? Here are some ways consumers can replace traditional cable television service with satellite internet:


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Eventhough the storage of films and music on a DVD is part of our digital world, the physical basis of the storage mechanism is not understood in detail. In the current issue of the leading journal Nature Materials, scientists from JяПНlich, Finland, and Japan provide insight into the read and write processes in a DVD. This knowledge should enable improved storage materials to be developed. (DOI: 10.1038/NMAT2931).


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They said it could be done and now they've done it. What's more, they did it with a GRIN. A team of scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California, Berkeley, have carried out the first experimental demonstration of GRIN — for gradient index — plasmonics, a hybrid technology that opens the door to a wide range of exotic optics, including superfast computers based on light rather than electronic signals, ultra-powerful optical microscopes able to resolve DNA molecules with visible light, and «invisibility» carpet-cloaking devices.


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Tablet devices are bursting back onto the scene and stand to be on the most-wanted gadget list for many geeks in the near future. Rallied by the success of Apple’s iPad, manufacturers are charging back into the tablet form factor, offering both familiar and innovative ways for us to interact with our machines. In this TechTip, we’re talkin’ tablets!


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