With the "reasonable consumer" standard satisfied, the dispute over Nestle's diabetes-related health claims goes back to District Court On December 13, 2023, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit ...

The increasing use of color LCDs in handheld equipment has created a need for smaller and cheaper sources of white backlight. In the past, cold-cathode fluorescent ...

In the midst of all the festivities, it’s very normal for working out to take a bit of a backseat, but it doesn’t have to, especially when there are full-body workouts available like this one. Not ...

There’s nothing worse than reaching the top of a flight of stairs and feeling like you’ve done an entire workout, is there? If that’s you, then you probably need to up your cardio game. This ...

The LED backlight in an LCD panel is the biggest power hog in notebook and tablet applications. As screen resolution and brightness level increase, the input power consumed by the LED backlight ...

Lighting a string of LEDs at a constant brightness requires driving it with a regulated current. A boost converter is commonly used to step up the voltage to a level high enough to bias the LEDs on ...

Find a downloadable version of this story in pdf format at the end of the story. Boost power converters have been widely used for Power Factor Correction (PFC) in ac-dc conversions [1] and for power ...

Using a molecular dimmer switch that smoothly dials up glowing lights in bacteria, researchers can make calculators in living cells that add, subtract, divide, and even do logarithms. These analog ...

Combining the operation of a boost regulator and a negative voltage converter can generate a negative supply from a single low voltage supply. The circuit in Figure 5 shows a standard application ...

A single-molecule logic circuit has shown that using carbon nanotubes instead of silicon pathways could someday soup up integrated circuits to near-terahertz processing, up from today’s low-gigahertz ...