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Tesla Motors, Inc. started with the Tesla Roadster high performance car and has now launched it’s latest consumer-focused vehicle, the S-Coupe. Peter Rawlinson, VP and Chief Engineer walks us through the new generation of energy efficient sports cars...
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With the auto industry, “changing gears” on how they design cars, one company started with the idea of a green sports-coop and never looked in the rear-view mirror. With more open engineering jobs than they can fill, you might want to watch and see what...
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MSI’s Rajiv Kothari talks to Electronic Design’s Bill Wong about the demo system they crafted to showcase their new Big Bang Fuzion motherboard, and takes us on a walkthrough of the key highlights. Fuzion features Lucid’s HYDRA technology, a fresh approach...
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For high-end PC gamers, the Big Bang Fuzion motherboard from MSI features Lucid HYDRA 200 chipset to allow users to install multiple cross-vender GPUs in a single system. Other features include 100% Hi-c Cap design, THX Audio Tech and OC Genie. For more...
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Bob Heile, Chairman of the ZigBee Alliance, discusses some of the innovative products and technologies on display by their partners at the CES 2010 ZigBee Pavilion, including the ZigBee RF4CE standard for RF remote controls and what the future holds in...
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At CES 2010, Electronic Design's Lou Frenzel had a chance to chat with Bob Heile, Chairman of the ZigBee Alliance, who updates us on how ZigBee gives consumers new ways to control lighting, HVAC, water, appliances and security systems from anywhere...
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Devices equipped with Marvell Mobile Hotspot technology provide users—both business travelers and consumers on the go—with an “always-on, always-available” Internet connection for laptop computers and other clients enabled with Wi-Fi. The patented MMH...
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At CES 2010, Marvell hosted a celebrity meet-and-greet to unveil the latest in eReader trends. Holding the New York Times' Bestsellers List record with 51 bestselling titles, award-winning author James Patterson proclaims that the year of the eReader...
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The Marvell ARMADA family of application processors is the first to offer customized silicon solutions for market segments ranging from smartphones to consumer, embedded, and smartbook devices combined with fully optimized support of industry standard...
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General Dynamics Robotic Systems’ (GDRS) Second Generation Tactical Autonomous Combat-Chassis (T2) addresses the military’s need for a rugged custom vehicle that can be equipped for manual, teleoperated, semi-autonomous or autonomous operation. GDRS developed...
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The General Dynamics Robotic Systems Safe Operations (SafeOps) team is integrating technologies that will enable high-reliability detection and avoidance of humans and moving vehicles in close proximity to Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs). The key challenge...
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Honeywell’s T-Hawk Micro Air Vehicle (MAV) is a ducted fan UAV that can take off and land vertically from complex desert and urban terrains without using runways or helipads. It can easily fly down to inspect hazardous areas for threats without exposing...
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Clipper Windpower’s advanced electrical system for their Liberty wind turbines is based on the permanent magnet MegaFlux generator. Unlike the industry's most commonly used, doubly fed generators, permanent magnet is simpler, nearly maintenance free...
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The Liberty wind turbine's patented distributed generation powertrain, "Quantum Drive," a compact two-stage helical distributed configuration, moves gearbox technology well beyond the vulnerabilities found in standard three-stage planetary...
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A critical issue for successful commercialization of complex thin film solar technology is the ability to transfer technology that is demonstrated in the laboratory and in pilot production into high throughput, high efficiency and highly reliable module...