Short articles on modern technology from toys to tools. We love our lasers, CD players, GPS, cell phones, ATMs, mag stripes, bar code readers, computer aided design and even computer controled milling machines. This page is devoted to showing how things like these work.
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Modern Technology
At work, at play and everywhere in between We enjoy the ease, comfort and capabilities provided by modern technology. Robots build our cars, computers automate our daily repetitive tasks and machines give us power far greater than our own and communication with people and places all over the world and beyond. Most of us never know how these technologies work and even those of us that are expert in some advanced technologies might know little or nothing of others. That situation is not likely to ever change. There is far too much to know for any individual to become expert or even competent in more than a handful of the amazing technologies that make up our world.
Articles listed on this page will share some of the secrets of those technologies that you may not already be familiar with.
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Incoming Missile: What does it look like when you are the target of a missile? Cool Videos From the point of view of a target. Missile approach videos.
The Rogowski Coil. This article describes the theory of operation of a great tool for measuring fast pulsed currents or high frequency currents without direct contact.
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MagStripes Work? The technology behind the magnetic stripes on your credit cards. How does the magnetic stripe on the back of a credit card work?
News of the Phoenix spacecraft landing on mars from one of the insiders: Richard Warwick. This is a beautifully detailed description of the event along with some great photos from Phoenix and some from HiRis viewing Phoenix from orbit.
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