Is That Really an Audio Speaker?

  Speakers used to be big boxes that took up a lot of space and looked—for the most part—ugly. Speakers should be heard and not necessarily seen. Now, they can be. There’re in the room but you just don’t see them. One ingenious way is an in-wall speaker that is...

HDMI = High Performance

The High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) was invented in 2002 by several major electronics manufacturers. HDMI is the first uncompressed all-digital interface that carries audio and video signals.  As the specifications evolved, a different version was...

The Camera Has Many Eyes

The combination of aperture size and depth of field affects the decisions made before a photographer presses the exposure button, and these two elements are fundamental to a good photograph.  The sharpness of an image is dependent on these two elements.  The...

A 3D Printing Primer

To science fiction writers this was just a dream, but if we look at most of our technology today, we first learned about these wondrous ideas from science fiction writers, such as Jules Verne. I remember reading about moving sidewalks and doors that automatically...