December 2022 – ENGGtalks®

31 Dec 22

Future Transistors, Plastic Processors, and 3D Chips

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Metallurgy & Material Science

“Those who do not know their history are doomed to repeat it.” With the phenomenal success of the transistor’s first 75 years, it feels like maybe we should both know and repeat. That seems to have been the reaction you (dear devoted IEEE Spectrum reader) took with your semiconductor article…

31 Dec 22

Top Tech 2023: A Special Report

Aerospace & Aeronautical

Each January, the editors of IEEE Spectrum offer up some predictions about technical developments we expect to be in the news over the coming year. You’ll find a couple dozen of those described in the following special report. Of course, the number of things we could have written about is…

31 Dec 22

Always Break Yolks: The Joy of Microwave Cooking

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

As I write this month’s article, my house is a noisy, dusty construction zone. I am renovating my kitchen, which was originally built in 1964. Although I’m happy to be rid of some of the disastrous 1960s design missteps—seriously, only one electrical receptacle in the entire kitchen?—I was sad to…

30 Dec 22

13 Intriguing Engineering Milestones to Look for in 2023

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

This story is part of our Top Tech 2023 special report. A Sea-Monster-Proof InternetThe initial segment of what will be the first underwater fiber-optic link to skirt the North Pole, connecting Japan and Europe, will light up in early 2023. This stretch, called Iris, will link Iceland to Ireland. In…

29 Dec 22

Electronic Warfare, Hackable 5G Networks, and Cell Towers on the Moon

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

2022, like every year, saw the arrival of countless new telecom technologies. But it’s those technologies that really swing for the fences that capture the imagination. That’s why this year, IEEE Spectrum‘s readers spent their time learning about proposals to bring something like 5G to the moon, to change how…

29 Dec 22

Finally, an eVTOL You Can Buy (Soon)

Aerospace & Aeronautical

If electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft do manage to revolutionize transportation, the date of 5 October 2011, may live on in aviation lore. That was the day when a retired mechanical engineer named Marcus Leng flew a home-built eVTOL across his front yard in Warkworth, Ont., Canada, startling his…

29 Dec 22

Plastic Rad-Hard Package Offers a Smaller and More Thermally Efficient Alternative to QMLV

Aerospace & Aeronautical

TI has developed a new device screening specification called space high grade in plastic (SHP) for space-qualified devices constructed in plastic packaging traditionally used in industrial applications. SHP includes both plastic substrate ball-grid array (BGA) and plastic-encapsulated packages. The SHP qualification level produces devices suitable for tough mission profiles typically…

27 Dec 22

GFA Production (Xiamen) Co., Ltd. Issues Voluntary Nationwide Recall of Easy Care First Aid® Burn Cream and First Aid Kits Due to Microbial Contamination

Biotechnology & Biomedical

Audience: Patient, Health Professional, Pharmacy December 23, 2022 – Xiamen, Fujian, GFA Production (Xiamen) Co., Ltd. is voluntarily recalling one lot of Easy Care first aid® AfterBurn ® Cream, 0.9 g single-use packets. The single use...

27 Dec 22

Hospira, Inc. Issues A Voluntary Nationwide Recall For One Lot of Vancomycin Hydrochloride Injection, USP 1.5g/vial, Due To The Presence of Visible Glass Particulates

Biotechnology & Biomedical

Audience: Health Professional, Pharmacy December 22, 2022 - NEW YORK, NY., Hospira, Inc., a Pfizer company, is voluntarily recalling one lot of Vancomycin Hydrochloride Injection, USP, 1.5 g/vial Single Dose Fliptop Vial, lot 33045BA, to the user...

26 Dec 22

A New Treatment for Arthritis: Vagus-Nerve Stimulation

Biotechnology & Biomedical

Monique Robroek once had such crippling arthritis that, even with the best available medications, she struggled to walk across a room. But thanks to an electronic implant fitted under her skin, she managed to wean herself off all her drugs and live pain-free for nearly a decade—until recently, when a…

Month: December 2022

Future Transistors, Plastic Processors, and 3D Chips

Top Tech 2023: A Special Report

Always Break Yolks: The Joy of Microwave Cooking

13 Intriguing Engineering Milestones to Look for in 2023

Electronic Warfare, Hackable 5G Networks, and Cell Towers on the Moon

Finally, an eVTOL You Can Buy (Soon)

Plastic Rad-Hard Package Offers a Smaller and More Thermally Efficient Alternative to QMLV

GFA Production (Xiamen) Co., Ltd. Issues Voluntary Nationwide Recall of Easy Care First Aid® Burn Cream and First Aid Kits Due to Microbial Contamination

Hospira, Inc. Issues A Voluntary Nationwide Recall For One Lot of Vancomycin Hydrochloride Injection, USP 1.5g/vial, Due To The Presence of Visible Glass Particulates

A New Treatment for Arthritis: Vagus-Nerve Stimulation

Electronic skin can self-heal after a cut, researchers find

IEEE President’s Note: Connecting the Unconnected

3 stories of founders building apps for the LGBTQ+ community

5 ways you can personalize your smartwatch with Wear OS

Here’s how Unilever is harnessing AI to innovate your favourite products