A chance "eureka moment" by a Scottish physicist solved a problem that had plagued the transatlantic cable -- and made a lord out of the man who had the insight. One of the fundamental problems of ...

With its planar, highly integrated XY scanner for industrial use (PIXIE), an upcoming spin-off of the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT in Aachen aims to set new performance standards. The ...

The creation, development, and implementation of today's high-speed circuits and passive interconnections requires a good understanding of how electrons, traveling through a medium, behave at various ...

ALL who have had the experience of attempting to exhibit to a large audience the simple phenomena of dynamical electricity will bear testimony to the difficulty of rendering apparent over the whole of ...

GALVANOMETERS of innumerable kinds abound, and each form has some special merit which renders it useful for certain restricted services. The old astatic instrument of Nobili is still preferred by many ...

Tech companies like Google and Microsoft have been working on augmented reality (AR) wearables that can superimpose images over your field of view, blurring the line between the real and virtual.

I suppose I can take credit for introducing the super awesome [Fran Blanche] to Hackaday’s very own crotchety old man and Commodore refugee [Bil Herd]. I therefore take complete responsibility for ...