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Hi-Res 3D Printing: Printing Curved, Flexible Electronic Circuits

By Dick Weisinger

Miniature 3D Printers.  That’s what researchers from South Korea have recently created.  The new technique operates at room temperature enables the printing of tiny intricate structures like arched bridges, pillars, and zig-zag shapes.  The process works with a variety of…

Industry 4.0 and the Internet of Things: Innovation on the Manufacturing Floor

By Dick Weisinger

Manufacturers are talking about moving on to a new phase, Industry 4.0.  It’s a term that started in Germany and is now being used by analysts like McKinsey and Gartner. But if we’re already at 4.0, then what were the…

Graphene: Miracle Substance that is the Strongest, Lightest and Best Electrical Conductor Ever Known

By Dick Weisinger

Graphene has the potential to become a super material.  While it  doesn’t occur naturally, it has some interesting properties.  It is only a one-atom thick lattice of carbon, but it has incredible strength and electrical conductivity properties.    In fact, it…

Databases: Strong Movement from Commercial to Open Source

By Dick Weisinger

The future of databases is open source.  Gartner predicts that within the next three years more than 70 percent of all new applications will be based on open source databases and that half of existing applications that are using commercial RDBMS…

Enterprise Mobile App Development: Growing 5x Faster Than IT Can Respond

By Dick Weisinger

Demand for enterprise mobile applications is expected to grow five times faster than the ability of IT organizations to respond between now and the end of 2017, according to Gartner.  The growth is being fueled by the rapid increase in number…