Newegg, the hardware hacker's playground, is making an initial public offering valued at $175 million, according to Reuters. The venture-backed e-tailer has been profitable every year since it opened its doors in 2001, scooping up ...READ»
A new study suggests that the key to outsize growth and innovation is a strong protection of copyrights and other intellectual property. Is its argument convincing?READ»
Greenpeace's Guide to Greener Electronics produces a new series of incendiary videos to alert people about how the big video-game system makers need to do more to rid their consoles of toxic chemicals.READ»
Circuits are usually made out of toxic chemical-filled silicon, but Professors David Thiel and MadhusudanRao Neeli at Australia's Griffith University think that plastic circuits could be cleaner and greener. The pair's Circuits ...READ»
Alison Burdett
Director of Technology
Toumaz
Abingdon, England
Building the Plumbing
Alison Burdett, 42, developed the Sensium, a tiny chip-based wireless system for medical-device developers that is sold through Texas ...READ»
A few years ago, E3 made a mistake. It went invitation-only, lost the hot booth babes dressed as Lara Croft and Jill Valentine, and killed the buzz. Now E3 is once again open to the public -- or "qualified computer- and ...READ»
Cambridge Who's Who, the leading company for professional development, corporate branding and global networking, has announced the launch of an affiliate program for its members.READ»
Electronics recycling is notoriously difficult--so difficult, in fact, that Greenpeace has an entire campaign devoted to improving it. But Sony took a giant leap forward yesterday in making recycling easier with its GreenFill ...READ»
Paper goes in the paper recycling bin, plastic goes in the plastic recycling bin, trash goes in the trash bin, and electronic waste goes...on the street? Not for much longer, at least in New York City. As of next year, NYC will ...READ»
Green IT is all the rage these days, with companies like Apple, Dell, Oracle, and Microsoft touting the energy efficiency and low carbon footprints of their data centers. But is IT ever really environmentally ...READ»
One of the most important goals of elicitation is to find out what concerns need to be solved through system boundary identification. A key development tool that can tremendously help in this “capturing good requirements” endeavor ...READ»
A critical step in Requirements Engineering is the ability to capture a new product’s features and functions. The criticality of this step is based on not creating GIGO (Garbage-In- Garbage Out) of the intended product’s ...READ»
Carbon nanotubes have been proposed as solutions to a host of modern technical problems, from space elevators to pin-point accurate drug delivery. But a more viable role for the 'tubes is as a computer memory storage device. And a ...READ»
The old computer adage “Garbage –In- Garbage Out (GIGO) is quite true when developing new consumer products. One of the key reasons new products fail in the marketplace is because of bad feature/function set requirements presented ...READ»
Flexible circuitry is a big upcoming trend in electronics, but there remain a few challenges to overcome before it can really take off. Now Polyera, a US company that makes specialist chemicals for flexible electronic devices, may ...READ»
"An atomically-thick layer of bonded carbon atoms in a hexagonal array, that can be made by peeling a layer off a graphite block with sticky-tape" doesn't sound like a particularly wondrous material. But that's an approximate ...READ»
Personal Fabrication is what Neil Gershenfield sees as the next evoution for Digital Technology. By merging the desktop pc or notebook with automation tools such as laser printers that can etch circuits onto paper, the lone inventor ...READ»
The technique of generating New Product Ideas via Brainstorming is not new to the Creativity Industry. Brainstorming was conceived back in the 1930's when Alex Osborne of the advertising agency Batten, Barton, Durstine, and Osborne ...READ»
Creating electronic products is as easy as installing software and connecting an electronic circuit board (Evaluation Board)to your desktop or notebook computer's USB port. Semiconductor manufacturers are developing and selling ...READ»
In creating the next "Big Thing", the main question asked by novice Entrepreneurs is, "How to Build a Working Prototype?" Well, the answer is by using parts from existing devices that have elements your design ...READ»
In creating a new product or modifiying an existing one, the physical attributes, function/feature sets, and ID (Industrial Design) must be contained in one document, the Product Specification. The specs I write for wireless ...READ»
According to Don Debelak in his book, How to Bring a Product To Market for Less Than $5,000, a product can be developed by "taking apart existing products and use their parts to make a new product." Well, that ...READ»
A few months ago I did a piece for FastCompany.com called LinkedIn Meets eBay, about a web startup that allowed salespeople to sell each other their contacts. If the sales world already had its eBay, it now has its iTunes: a place ...READ»
Plenty of companies spend extra money to try to squeeze more productivity out of their employees; FastCompany, for example, keeps their employees stocked with coffee, soda, snacks and comfortable seating areas as amenities. The ...READ»
