November 8, 2007

A single-pixel camera? Yes, there is such a thing and it promises to be more useful than it at first might appear.

This is a driver’s car.

Design firm Kairos Autonomi in Sandy, Utah, uses CAD/CAM software to speed up development of retrofit kits for making autonomous military vehicles.

OnColor BIO Colorants from PolyOne Corp., Cleveland, give the Indoor Gardening Kit a greener footprint.

Freescale Semiconductors, a leading manufacture of embedded semiconductors based in Austin, Tex., is looking for innovative and environmental designs that make use of its components.

Watertown, Mass.-based startup A123Systems thinks it has solved the problem of overheating in lithium-ion batteries.

After making his latest prototype all but disappear, Swiss automotive visionary Frank K. Rinderknecht may be the Houdini of concept cars.

If you devote more thought to your outdoor Christmas lights than your retirement plans, we want to hear from you.

I agree with your editorial on engineering Masters’ degrees versus MBAs (“What good is an MS?” Oct. 11), but I think you missed a bigger picture.

Imagine you are on a long road trip and your destination is only a few hours away. It's getting late and you're getting tired but you think you can push through and make it that night.

A group of Israeli and Belgian researchers has successfully broken the cipher algorithm in KeeLoq, the anti-theft digital keys used by Chrysler, Daewoo, Fiat, General Motors, Honda, Jaguar, Toyota, and Volvo.

The IronHorse line of generalpurpose ac motors includes rolled-steel and cast-iron styles in single and threephase models from 0.33 to 300 hp.

An old adage says just because you have a hammer doesn’t mean everything should look like a nail.

Carpeting small areas of a semiconductor device with tiny pits adjusts its electrical resistance and could usher in a new class of magnetic sensors and ultradense data storage, say researchers with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

It’s a good thing the emergency brake worked well on our test 2007 Kia Spectra test car.

Alcoa Wheel Products, a Cleveland business unit of Alcoa, is the exclusive supplier for all wheels on the special edition Lamborghini Murcielago Reventon .

High-school teams will strut their robotic stuff at the Automation Fair, Nov. 14-15, at New McCormick Place West, Chicago, IL.

The ethics dilemmas typical engineers face in their careers are probably not the stuff that sells newspapers.

The largest ship ever powered solely by a kite in U.S. waters — a 308,000-lb. barge — recently glided across San Francisco Bay as part of the second annual Family Day Kite Festival.

Minarik Corporation, Glendale Calif., a motion control and automation distributor, has recently acquired Applied Motion Products (AMPRO).

What did the light bulb say to the generator? “I really get a charge out of you!”

Mazda Motor Corp. uses a proprietary single-nanotechnology to build a new automotive catalyst.