Boeing’s final test version of the 787 is getting ready for its first flight. The plane ran its engines for the first time recently and now it will enter a series of ground tests before taking to the skies. The company plans to use the 787 to test the airplane’s resistance to lightning and other electromagnetic interference.Read more in The Olympian. … [Read more...]
Technology Enables Wireless Recharging of Mobile Phones
Fujitsu Laboratories Limited has announced the development of wireless magnetic resonance-based charging technology that enables multiple portable devices to be charged simultaneously without any restrictions on their position with respect to the charger. Visit Fujitsu’s Web site to learn more … [Read more...]
FCC Likely to Open Airwaves to Wireless
The FCC is likely to approve the expansion of unlicensed airwaves, opening the door to supercharged Wi-Fi networks that will do away with the need to find a wireless hot spot and will provide the scaffolding for new applications that are not yet imagined, experts say.Read more in the New York Times. … [Read more...]
EMI’s Effect on Slot Machines
In the course of answering a reader’s question about whether his aunt’s pacemaker would increase her odds of winning in Vegas, online gaming magazine Casino City discussed electromagnetic interference’s affect on slot machines. Although slot machine expert John Robison determined that the pacemaker would most likely not interfere with the machines, he recounted his favorite … [Read more...]
Light Rail EMI Agreement Reached
The University of Minnesota and a local government agency have reached a tentative agreement on how to protect the university’s research facilities from vibration and electromagnetic interference caused by a light-rail line. Read more from the Minnesota Daily. … [Read more...]
FCC Meeting to Include White Space Discussion
The Federal Communications Commission has announced a tentative agenda for the next open meeting scheduled for Sept. 23. One item on the agenda is TV White Spaces Second Memorandum Opinion and Order that will create opportunities for investment and innovation in advanced Wi-Fi technologies and a variety of broadband services by finalizing provisions for unlicensed wireless … [Read more...]
Researcher Receives Patent for Electromagnetic Technology
The United States Patent Office has issued a patent to Dr. Mark DeCoster, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Louisiana Tech University, for his invention of an "Electromagnetic Probe Device" – a technology developed at Louisiana Tech's Institute for Micromanufacturing. DeCoster, in collaboration with co-inventor Dr. Nicolas Bazan of the LSU Health Sciences Center … [Read more...]
WHO Study Reports on Mobile Phone Cancer Risk
The World Health Organization’s Interphone Study Group has published the results of an international set of case-control studies in 13 countries around the world, focusing on four types of tumors in tissues that most absorb RF energy emitted by mobile phones.Learn more from the International Agency for Research on Cancer. … [Read more...]
Toyota's Acceleration Problem Could Be Customer-Based
Even after theNational Highway Traffic Safety Administration(NHTSA) got NASA involved in electronic-electromagnetic interference research regarding Toyota’s sudden acceleration problems, NHTSA analysis shows that in many cases, the driver didn’t apply the brakes or had stepped on the accelerator instead of the brake. Read more in the Washington Post. … [Read more...]
Who Said Catalogs Were Old School?
Issue: 5 September, 2010 In these days of electronic marketing, where new marketing tools appear almost daily, the old favorites like catalogs and product brochures are often ignored. In the EMC world, several companies have told me they have ceased producing catalogs (printed or electronic) because their products change too often, or because product information is available … [Read more...]
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