Archive for February, 2004

Earthquake!

Wednesday, February 4th, 2004

Around the world, earthquakes are actually pretty common — more than a thousand every day.

On, off, on, off, on, off …

Wednesday, February 11th, 2004

As Rodney Dangerfield might say, microchips wouldn’t be nothin’ without transistors.

Remote controls

Wednesday, February 18th, 2004

Changing channels on your television starts with an engineer and a microchip.

Metal detectors

Wednesday, February 25th, 2004

Metal detectors sound the alarm using magnetic fields.