Japan lives in a cyberpunk-styled future that twines tech in the most mundane of things. You can find robots performing repetitive tasks at restaurants, like peeling a banana or frying chips, while ...

If you're searching for crisp, clear audio from your car's stereo, you'll want a set of quality tweeters. Despite their descriptive name, tweeters are not social media experts. Rather, they are tiny ...

If you do FDM 3D printing, you know one of the biggest problems is sensing the bed. Nearly all printers have some kind of bed probing now, and it makes printing much easier, but there are many ...

Piezo elements are electromechanical transducers that convert mechanical forces (pressure, tensile stress or acceleration) into voltages. The inverse piezoelectric effect, precisely the opposite, ...

Abstract: Nowadays there is a growing demand for smart devices to offer more integrated functions. In this work, a multifunctional piezoelectric MEMS actuator is designed as tweeter and ultrasonic ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

It’s not surprising that many in our industry started their careers in some aspect of the music and audio industries. Some were in garage bands, front-of-house volunteers at their church, or selling ...

One of the reasons gold is so valuable is because it is highly unreactive—if you make something out of gold, it keeps its lustrous radiance. Even when you can react it with another material, it’s also ...

Traveling Wilburys featured some of the finest musicians of the ‘60s and ‘70s getting together to form an ‘80s supergroup. But it was a fellow legend not in the band who was indirectly responsible for ...

Twitter is now paying creators for a share of the ad revenue earned from ads served in the replies to their posts. Users who subscribe to Twitter Blue and have earned more than 5 million tweet ...

One of us is a Twitter addict; the other not so much. In the end, we were both unsure how people might use Threads in the long run. By Brian X. Chen and Mike Isaac Brian X. Chen writes Tech Fix, a ...