Photo: Rami Shlush Lossless data compression seems a bit like a magic trick. Its cousin, lossy compression, is easier to comprehend. Lossy algorithms are used to get music into the popular MP3 format and turn a digital image into a standard JPEG file. They do this by selectively removing bits, taking what scientists know about […]
Photo: Robert Howe “All engineers should anticipate that they will have to make big domain shifts in their careers,” says Carl Howe, who has worked on everything from electronic music to large-scale networking and parallel processors. “The life cycle of technologies going from adoption to obsolescence has been shortening over the last century. New engineers […]
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Photo: Eric Schlaepfer/Tube Time Light Show: A two-color LED sanded almost in half, with still-functioning light-emitting junctions. As we’ve remarked in these pages before, oftentimes some of the best engineering around is invisible, hidden inside black boxes of one sort or the other. If the black box is sufficiently important in some way, professional forensic […]
Photo: ArcAttack Going to Eleven: ArcAttack makes its own Tesla coils to produce giant sparks for live performances—and a wearable Faraday cage to perform in. If you’ve ever wanted to play guitar while giant bolts of lightning ground themselves around you—and to you—then Joe DiPrima can hook you up. DiPrima is the cofounder of ArcAttack, […]
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