Casual Friday: Robot wins in foosball, Shock therapy curtails Facebook use, Teleportation, more

Volume 2 • Issue 35 August 30, 2013 Now that the week is winding down, you can (finally) catch up on some of the most popular articles from these past five days on ElectronicProducts.com. Top industry news, insightful career advice, helpful how-to’s, and more - it’s all right here. Our Casual Friday newsletter gets you up to speed before you take off for the weekend! Keyboard add-on shocks users when they try signing on to Facebook After studying the amount of time they spent on Facebook each week — and coming to the conclusion that it was way too much, 2 MIT doctoral candidates went…more Electronic Products Word of the Week: Teleportation Robots - the “artificial” agents around the house Four renewable energy sources to replace fossil fuels Yahoo is starting to rebuild its research unit. First step — hire 50 new Ph.D's by the end of 2013 More Education Center Articles >> Students develop a robot that will probably beat you at foosball Students from the Automatic Control Lab in Switzerland have developed a foosball-playing robot for a school project that has the potential to far surpass a mere human’s abilities.…more The modern evolution of gas detection technology Electronics dissolved by droplet of liquid Image of the Day: Up-close-and-personal with the NASA Ames Research Center Spoofing on the High Seas More D.I.Y. Articles >> Precision voltage references are rad hard The ISL71090SEH12 and ISL71090SEH25 precision voltage references feature initial voltage accuracy of +/-0.05%, and accuracy of +/-0.15% over the entire -55° to 125°C military temperature range…more 40 Gbits/s over twisted-pair copper cable is on the way Recently the IEEE P802.3bq Task Force was formed to create a standard for 40-gigabit Ethernet over copper twisted-pair cabling (40GBASE-T). This is the next generation following 10-gigabit Ethernet over copper…more Freescale Kinetis K21/22 Low-Power Development Board in stock at Mouser Mouser Electronics, Inc. is the first to stock Freescale’s Development Board for the Kinetis K Low-Power 32-Bit ARM Cortex-M4 MCUs with floating point unit, USB connectivity, and enhanced security…more AVX Introduces SPITANIII V2.0 Tantalum and Niobium Oxide Capacitor Simulation Software AVX Corporation has released an updated version of its SpiTanIII tantalum and niobium oxide (Oxicap) capacitor simulation software, which helps electronic design engineers model and build stable, robust, and reliable designs…more Advertisement