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On Keypads and Design Philosophy

December 3, 2009 5:15 am | Comments

ECN Editor-in-Chief Alix Paultre looks at numeric keypads and what they tell us about design philosophy.

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HIS HD 5970 2GB GDDR5 Video Card Review

December 3, 2009 3:22 am | Comments

The HIS HD 5970 2GB GDDR5 Video Card has a core speed on this product is 725MHz and the 2GB of GDDR5 256 bit memory is 4GHz DDR. It comes with 3200 stream processing units for vertex, pixel and geometry data, 160 texture units and 64 raster operators.

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Collin's Lab: Infrared heart sensor

December 2, 2009 4:34 am | Comments

The beating of the heart is often recorded via sound or simply with touch - but there's also another interesting and somewhat lesser known option - light. An infrared emitter/detector pair can be used along with a programmable microcontroller, to effectively visualize the effects of the human body's hardest-working muscle

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Ohio State Buckeye Bullet 2 tops 300 mph

December 1, 2009 3:22 am | Comments

For the second time this week, Ohio State's Buckeye Bullet 2 team has exceeded the international speed record it set in 2007. Late yesterday (9/25), the Bullet set an average speed of 302.877 mph, which is pending certification by the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile before it can be called an official record.

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Join the debate on ECN Online

November 25, 2009 5:59 am | Comments

Alix Paultre, Editor in Chief of ECN, discusses website editorial policy and invites participation.

Augmented Reality and You

November 24, 2009 2:45 am | Comments

I remember going to a demonstration of virtual tagging technology at the Kihara Research Center in Tokyo several years back, and the researchers frankly weren't quite sure what to do with the tech at the time.

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ECN's New Site

November 23, 2009 6:46 am | Comments

Our Editor-in-Chief, Alix Paultre, discusses the new ECN site, along with several of its most noteworthy features.

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