IEEE Spectrum Consumer Electronics Channel

Modern smartphone touchscreens offer edge-to-edge glass and use advanced bonding that makes the screen nearly flush with the surface of the phone. Beneath it, however, there’s still layer upon ...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/led-display-perovskite-charger

Advanced manufacturing techniques like 3D printing have opened the door to the easy creation of complex shapes and forms with high accuracy. Now imagine that you could unlock the full potential o...

https://engineeringresources.spectrum.ieee.org/free/w_dasa541/prgm.cgi

Thermal management has always been a challenge for modern electronics, especially with ever increasing demands for more powerful, yet smaller devices. A 'cool' electronics device requires careful...

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EMC simulation is of significant interest to both engineering and business, owing to the possible capability to predict EMC failures, root causes, and offer design guidelines through data—all w...

https://engineeringresources.spectrum.ieee.org/free/w_dasa540/prgm.cgi

Rapid and resourceful technological improvisation has long been a mainstay of warfare, but the war in Ukraine is taking it to a new level. This improvisation is most conspicuous in the ceaselessl...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ukraine-hackers-war

Sensors, controllers, and other electronic devices embedded in clothing could change the way we interact with computers and with each other. But efforts to turn T-shirts into electronic devices h...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/electronic-textiles-chipless-batteryless

The stretchable battery is gaining momentum in the electronics industry, where it might one day serve as an energy storage medium in fitness trackers, wearable electronics, and even smart clothin...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/stretchable-electronics-batteries

When we think about robotic manipulation, the default is usually to think about grippers—about robots using manipulators (like fingers or other end effectors ) to interact with objects. For mos...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/humanoid-robot-tri-punyo

The potential use cases for smart contacts are compelling and varied. Pop a lens on your eye and monitor health metrics like glucose levels; receive targeted drug delivery for ocular diseases; e...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/power-smart-contact-lenses

The Mobile World Congress (MWC), a technology convention held each year in Barcelona, placed a spotlight on rollable phones like the Phantom Ultimate, a scroll-like concept from Tecno Mobile, an...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/rollable-smartphone

Apple’s Vision Pro headset might just be the breakthrough product that the augmented-reality industry has been waiting for to catalyze the widespread adoption of AR technology, according to th...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ieee-alliance-advancing-augmented-reality

IN THE EARLY 1980S, offices were noisy places, filled with the sound of metal striking inked ribbons to mark characters on paper. IBM Selectric typewriters clacked, daisy wheel printers clattere...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/inkjet-printer

Last weekend, X.ai released the world’s largest “open-source” large language model (LLM), Grok-1 . At 314 billion parameters, it’s the largest open-source model yet, far exceeding predece...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/open-source-ai-grok-llm

Newly developed intrinsically stretchable circuits are thousands of times as fast as and possess 20 times as many transistors as previous intrinsically stretchable electronics. The researchers at...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/stretchable-electronics

The Chinese consumer electronics company TCL Technology recently unveiled a monstrous, 163-inch 4K Micro-LED television that one home theater expert described as “tall as Darth Vader .” Each ...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/virtual-reality-head-set-8k

Turning garbage into gold sounds like alchemy, not science. But researchers at ETH Zurich have demonstrated an efficient, sustainable method to extract gold nuggets from common electronic waste ....

https://spectrum.ieee.org/electronic-waste-recycling

The Apple Vision Pro teleports you to a parallel universe, one where you can summon apps and flick through web pages with a wave of your hands. It’s a feat made possible by an array of cameras...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/apple-vision-pro-privacy

Diversity of thought in industrial design is crucial: If no one thinks to design a technology for multiple body types, people can get hurt. The invention of seat belts is an oft-cited example of ...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/motion-capture-standards

ChatGPT’s release on 30 November 2022 was met with much fanfare and plenty of pushback. It quickly became clear people wanted to ask AI the same questions they asked Google—and ChatGPT often...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/perplexity-ai

A novel disc the size of a DVD can hold more than 1 million gigabits—roughly as much as is transmitted per second over the entire world’s Internet —by storing data in three dimensions as op...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/data-storage-petabit-optical-disc

There are many constraints on the design of augmented-reality systems. Not the least of which is that “you have to look presentable when you’re walking around,” Meta research scientist Tony...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/meta-ar-glasses

A lot has happened in robotics over the last year. Everyone is wondering how AI will transform robotics, and everyone else is wondering whether humanoids are going to blow it or not, and the rest...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/hello-robot-stretch-3

Citing “no path to regulatory approval in the European Union,” Amazon and iRobot have announced the termination of an acquisition deal first announced in August of 2022 that would have made...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/irobot-amazon

In 2013, Canon introduced its first dual-pixel autofocus , a technology that allows almost every pixel in a photo sensor to help focus the image it takes. Now Canon researchers say they’ve deve...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/autofocus-canon-twisted-diode

Last month, Meta began rolling out default end-to-end encryption to Messenger, its one-billion-plus-member messaging platform spun off from Facebook. The long-standing app has incorporated end-...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/end-to-end-encryption-messenger

Gone are the days of humdrum fibers that do nothing beyond holding together the clothes we wear and bags we carry. In a paper published on 3 January in Science Advances, researchers from Purdue ...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/electroluminescent-wire

Most people are probably aware of the privacy risks posed by the front-facing camera on their mobile device or laptop, and so can take steps to reduce those risks. But now research shows a deter...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ambient-light-sensor-cybersecurity-risk

As health care wearables for various medical conditions and situations proliferate, patients inevitably want their wearable tech as inconspicuous and worry free as possible. As a case in point, c...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/wearable-medical-devices-lora

At CES this past week, the trucking startup Nikola showed off a hydrogen-fueled semi truck, one of its first ever built in the United States. But the troubled company with a convicted founde...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/hydrogen-truck

If you believe the hype, AI will someday generate Hollywood films, cure cancer, and make driving a historical oddity. But at CES 2024, it’s tackling some more immediate and achievable goals. ...

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