Digital photography clicks
Cameras contain several highly interdependent subsystems and rely on other hardware and software to complete the picture. When everything clicks, the results are impressive.
--Brian Dipert, Technical Editor

Take your hands off that car!
Hands-free computer-controlled vehicles promise to improve safety and reduce emissions, fuel consumption, and traffic congestion on our highways. Believe it or not, the long-envisioned highways of the future are beginning to emerge.
--Maury Wright, Technical Editor

High-tech security: The eyes have it
In the race to create the ideal personal-identification system, design engineers are turning to the human iris as the biometric of choice.
--Warren Webb, Technical Editor

The transistor at 50: not even considering retirement
Two mass-market products demonstrated what the transistor could enable, as the "solid state" came to dominate electronics.
--Bill Schweber, Technical Editor

Graphical technique lets you optimally bias
bipolar-junction-transistor circuits
You can bias a bipolar junction transistor in several ways. Determining the best method for your application is easy with a graphical technique.
--Lawrence Grover, Southwest Missouri State University