Tag Archives: Technology Review

A New Type of Touch Sensor

A new story of mine is up at Technology Review. It’s about a novel touch sensor that’s quite versatile—good for wires, fabrics, rubber, paper, and hard flat surfaces like walls, floors, and coffee tables. The researchers, Patrick Baudisch (Hasso-Plattner Institute) … Continue reading →

Posted in design, technology | Tagged baudisch, design, diy, HCI, tdr, Technology Review, time domain reflectometry, touch sensor, wimmer | Leave a comment

The Twilight of Moore’s Law?

For decades, the computer industry has been driven by Moore’s law, which started as an observation by Intel’s Gordon Moore that computer chips doubled in capability (or shrink in size by half) every 18 months or so. But at this … Continue reading →

Posted in technology | Tagged computer, energy efficiency, eniac, Intel, koomey's law, mobile phones, moore's law, power saving, Technology Review, trends | Leave a comment

Programming the Tubes

Computers and smart phones can be improved with software updates and new apps. Not so for networks. The way servers, found in company IT rooms and massive data centers, communicate with each other is essentially static, with instructions for traffic … Continue reading →

Posted in technology, video | Tagged cisco, facebook, google, networks, nick mckeown, onf, open networking foundation, openflow, programmable networks, software-defined networking, stanford, Technology Review, uc berkeley | Leave a comment

On Building a Quantum Internet

The Internet we all know and love is made up of photons that cruise through millions of miles of fiber around the globe. Soon researchers could take the Internet to the quantum level. Using entangled photons, particles that are linked … Continue reading →

Posted in lasers, physics, technology | Tagged entangled photons, fiber optics, internet, network switch, photonics, prem kumar, quantum communication, quantum computers, quantum internet, Technology Review | Leave a comment

Stretchable Electronics Update

It’s been about five years since I first wrote about John Rogers’ stretchy silicon research out of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He had the idea that high-quality silicon–the kind that usually comes as a rigid chip–could work even … Continue reading →

Posted in lasers, technology, writing | Tagged athletic apparel, circuits, electronics, flexible electronics, imaging, John Rogers, neuroscience, rubber, silicon, stretchable silicon, surgery, Technology Review, The Economist | Leave a comment