Takes Full Control of Your Life

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The simply named Personal Robot brings artificial intelligence to your home or office using a combination of components ...

View this email in your browser. FEB 05   IN THIS ISSUE   NEWS     Photos of the Day: Wind Turbine Floats 2,000 Feet     NEWS     Ferguson Testing Device Aimed at Reducing Fatal Encounters     NEWS     Takata Expects Worse Red Ink Amid Global Air-Bag Woes     VIDEO     The Woman Who Saved the U.S. Space Race     NEWS     Europe's ATR in Focus Again After 2nd Taiwan Air Disaster     BLOG     Surface Pretreatment for Improved Adhesion   We are now accepting entries for the 2015 Young Mind Awards! Our mission is to inspire youth at the Middle and High School levels, as well as students at the undergraduate level, to pursue their passion and bring forth Design Engineering and Research and Development as desirable education and career options for scholars. Learn More   Featured Story Engineering Newswire 126: A.I. Takes Full Control of Your Life Today on Engineering Newswire, we're changing the face of the Navy, having our lives taken over by A.I., and fighting fires with the shipboard autonomous robot ...                       Share Full Story   New Clippard Miniature Pneumatic Products Catalog Clippard provides thousands of standard and special pneumatic products to design engineers and manufacturers around the world. Cylinders, valves, fittings and more! Send catalog today     NEWS To Catch a Drone: Govts Seek Ways to Counter Tiny Fliers What's the best way to counter an unwelcome drone: a bigger, faster drone, laser guns, sky-high netting or devices that block remote controls? Scientists, governments and companies are now scrambling to find out ...       Full Story     VIDEO Brain-to-Brain Communication Has Arrived You may remember neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis - he built the brain-controlled exoskeleton that allowed a paralyzed man to kick the first ball of the 2014 World Cup. What's he working on now? Building ways for two minds to send messages ... Full Story     Vibration / Shock Absorption Mounts J.W. Winco Inc.'s inch size GN 352.1 cylindrical vibration / shock absorption mounts with threaded stud are used as end-stop bumpers or sound dampers. They absorb most of the accumulated kinetic energy on impact, and prevent damaging shock and rebound. These mounts are also used as leveling feet. Mount body is vulcanized natural rubber, 55 durometer (shore hardness &plusmin;5°). Cover plate and threaded stud are zinc plated, blue passivated steel, molded in. Learn More     NEWS Samsung Launches Tizen-Powered TVs in Home Market South Korean electronics giant Samsung Electronics Co. has started domestic sales of high-end televisions powered by its Tizen operating system and plans to add washing machines, fridges and other appliances to ...          Full Story     NEWS Investors' Appetite for Startups Fed By Stock Market Gains Some Entrepreneurs looking for startup funding got a wad of money near the end of last year, but there are concerns the boom may not last. Startup iFunding is a beneficiary of the surge. The website focused on ...        Full Story     Engineering Newswire 125: Vampire-Bat Inspired Drone Walks & Flies This week on Engineering Newswire, we're flying - and walking - with vampire-bat inspired drones, showing off Russia's new ATV riding cyborg, and taking stomach acid powered joyrides in mouse stomachs ... Watch Now     ARTICLE Measurement Data Acquisition Used to Develop Washing Detergent In 1907 German manufacturer Henkel developed Persil, the first automatic washing powder, which made clothes washing much easier. Clothes washing went on to become even simpler and environmentally friendlier ...      Full Story     NEWS NASA Spacecraft Returns New Images of Pluto En Route to Historic Encounter NASA's New Horizons spacecraft returned its first new images of Pluto on Wednesday, as the probe closes in on the dwarf planet. Although still just a dot along with its largest moon, Charon, the images come on the ...        Full Story     VIDEO Repairing an Intercom System Join Dave step-by-step as he attempts to find the problem with a non-booting Aiphone GF NS building intercom system. Will a reset chip make a monkey out of him? And as always, a trap for young players is explained ...     Full Story     PRODUCT C2000 Piccolo F2806x InstaSPIN-MOTION LaunchPad Developers can control three-phase motors in minutes with the new C2000 Piccolo F2806x InstaSPIN-MOTION LaunchPad development kit from Texas Instruments. It provides a modular, quick-launch development tool containing ... Full Story     NEWS Floating Wind Turbines Bring Electricity Where It's Needed It's a balloon that lifts a wind turbine. That's the easiest way to describe the technology being developed by Altaeros Energies, led by Ben Glass, inventor and CEO of the young company. Glass has reimagined the possibilities of balloon and airship ... Full Story     BLOG Surface Pretreatment for Improved Adhesion Pretreating components becomes more important as the demand grows for highly reliable bond connections. Pretreatment provides better resistance to humidity, elevated temperatures and aggressive substances. The appropriate pretreatment method ... Full Story     NEWS Europe's ATR in Focus Again After 2nd Taiwan Air Disaster European aircraft maker ATR is in the spotlight again after the dramatic crash Wednesday of a TransAsia Airways turboprop into a river in Taiwan. It's the second time in seven months that a TransAsia ATR has been involved in a fatal accident ... Full Story     VIDEO The Woman Who Saved the U.S. Space Race One saved the U.S. space program, another invented a better treatment for leprosy, and a third spawned an industry in the American Midwest. Mary Sherman Morgan, Alice Ball and Rachel Lloyd all had amazing accomplishments in ...   Full Story     NEWS Takata Expects Worse Red Ink Amid Global Air-Bag Woes Takata Corp., the Japanese seatbelt and air-bag maker at the center of a defect scandal, is expecting more red ink for the fiscal year through March. It is projecting a 31 billion yen ($264 million) loss, worse than the ...     Full Story     NEWS Ferguson Testing Device Aimed at Reducing Fatal Encounters As police in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson seek alternatives to the sort of lethal force that led to Michael Brown's death, they're testing a new device that attaches to a handgun barrel and is designed to turn a bullet into a ...     Full Story     NEWS Photos of the Day: Wind Turbine Floats 2,000 Feet Most wind turbine manufacturers are competing to build taller turbines to harness more powerful winds above 500 feet, or 150 meters. Altaeros is going much higher with their novel Buoyant Airborne Turbine: the BAT. The Altaeros BAT can reach... Full Story   Please include your company information in the 2014 Prototyping Directory. SUBSCRIBE • UNSUBSCRIBE • EDITORIAL FEEDBACK • ADVERTISE This email was sent by: Product Design & Development 100 Enterprise Drive - Suite 600 - Rockaway, NJ 07866-2129 We respect your right to privacy - click here to view our policy. ©2015 Product Design & Development. All rights reserved.