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Quantenna debuts 802.11n 4x4 MIMO wireless video bridge ref design

Quantenna Communications Inc. has debuted a complete reference design based on its QHS600 IEEE 802.11n wireless LAN (WLAN) 4x4 multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) chipset.
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Lattice adds over 90 reference designs for PLDs

Lattice Semiconductor Corp. has released more than 90 reference designs optimized for the MachXO and ispMACH 4000ZE PLDs.
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Duck! Low-flying pizza!

Clive Maxfield

Can you imagine a future in which the skies (and restaurants) are jam-packed with miniature copters?

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I really am getting to the stage where I'd like to build a hexa-copter or octa-copter ... I want to ...
An interesting little patent today that shows how simple a patent can be...

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In my previous blog we pondered the past. In today's column I'd like to contemplate, ruminate, and speculate about the future…

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Obligatory link relating to mini bars (WARNING: may contain bad ...
In which we peruse and ponder some electronics articles published in a daily newspaper circa the 1920s.

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If I might suggest: you could try to _carefully_ photograph the pages and try to find somebody with ...
How exciting – I just created my first drawing using my iPad Camera Lucida app!

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Sad Dog Diary

Clive Maxfield

This video consists of a series of images of dogs with a human narrator saying what they are thinking.

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How many of you have a pet snake and want to take it for slither? Well, you just may need this invention...

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The text of the abstract and claim shows up the apparent inability of patent attorneys to construct ...
Check out an amazing image created by someone who knows what she's doing… and then we discover what I've been up to…

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The interesting thing is that there's speculation that the great masters used a version of this ...
I think Wile E. Coyote was the kind of person who created many of the patents I find to write about in my “what were they thinking” series. You know what I mean – those absurdly complicated gadgets...

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To tell you the truth ... I would have used a pressurized canister of ethyl ether as the 'blower'. ...

Video: Funny magic trick

Clive Maxfield

I just ran across a video on YouTube (where else) billed as "Easily the funniest magic trick I've ever seen!" So, of course, I had to take a look…

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Given there is actually no shortage of engineers in the US I would suggest that the H-1B visas ...
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Obviously its saturation point that Junko meant. "tipping point" is normally used to refer to start ...
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Etmax  06.17.2013
Microsoft office comes to iPhone
I would have thought the point was obvious, to help MS sell Office 365 which very few people seem to ...
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Job offer as Senior FPGA Engineer

By jaranguren on 09.29.2010

Hello, everyone.

Through a personal contact I came across a job offer posting from Accelogic, a Ft. Lauderdale based high technolgy company, on

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I think we should have regular job section where job seekers and job providers can share the info. ...

 

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