circuits in photos
Photos: Artificial eyes and airport scanners - what's hot in R&D
Photo The device uses application-specific integrated circuits to transform digital images from a camera into electrical signals in the eye that the brain uses to create a visual image. Before they became household names,... [21 Aug 2009]
Photos: Early analogue torpedo simulator
Photo Peter Chilvers, volunteer at the National Museum of Computing, said: "In the early days of computing, digital computers weren't fast enough to do certain sorts of calculations, so analogue computers would work by having electronic... [09 Sep 2008]
Photos: Modern computing balancing on the head of a pin?
Photo This hulking forefather was shrunk down to become the brains of integrated circuits in everything from computers and mobile phones to guided missiles and heart pacemakers. They don't make them like this anymore -... [29 Jan 2008]
Photos: Six unusual power sources
Photo Currently it is "not realistic" to try to power a mobile phone using the thermo-generators, said Peter Spies, group manager at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, because the energy from the human body is... [19 Nov 2007]
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