Feature: Mesh Networking

Mesh networking components such as zigbee radios amongst others seem to enjoy a certain popularity amongst open source hardware advocates, …



DIY Educational Kits

Botanicalls: DIY Arduino Based Kit

The Wired Store, as part of their green tech merchanitis, recently added the Botanicalls Twitter DIY kit, an arduino/x-port based DIY kit. …


Open Spec Microcontrollers


Memory Cell Research Identifies Neurons Memory Location

From the newsdesk: Scientists working on localizing memory in brain cells have observed brain cells in the act of summoning a memory. FTA:
The researchers were even able to …

IBM Quicksilver SSD passes 1 million IO operations per second mark

In the field of SSD enterprise-level flash drives, IBM Research has hit a new benchmark. Based on their own  SAN Volume Controller SVC, and using SSD developed by Fusion-io, their …

Asus 901 eee pc Netbook: Low Voltages Arrival?

The spate of recent intel ATOM low-voltage processors has made a variety of products available that bask in the glory of the emerging market …

The Great Green Debate

The roiling debate over green products in the electronic manufacturing sector is a strange hybrid of cultural assumptions: there seems to be a background cultural trope that says, technology is …