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The exhibit floor at APEC was filled with exhibitors showing the latest in power electronics products, helping to enable the smart energy revolution. One of the leading semiconductor manufacturers, Texas Instruments, took advantage of APEC to showcase some of the leading edge applications of their power management products including: solar micro-converter reference design, green energy power converters for notebook PCs, contactless charging pad technology, and LED reference designs including an LED light bulb for Edison sockets with a 25 year…

In 2010, the Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC) celebrated their 25th anniversary. The conference was held in Palm Springs, California, and focused on practical and applied aspects of the power electronics business. The conference looked into topics including electric cars, solar power, digital power and nanotechnology. This video contains highlights from the conference and gives you a look into the exhibition that focused on renewable energy and power efficiency.

Robert Doug Hopkins, University of Buffalo, discusses his presentation at APEC 2010, “Power Electronics in a Smart-Grid Distribution System.” Power Electronics affect power flow in grid distribution and distributed energy system, and power controller design can offer a greater system stability and better use of economic resource.

Robert V. White, Chief Engineer of Embedded Power, talks about digital power being in the early adopter stage. After his plenary talk “Digital Power: After the Hype,” at the APEC 2010, White explains the technologies that are being designed using digital power, and how it is slowly crossing over the power electronics spectrum.

See the effect of a major earthquake in Southern California. The Tera-Shake project uses a multitude of visualizations to interpret simulation output based on the Southern San Andreas Fault. A video supplement to IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications magazine’s “Visual Insights into High-Resolution Earthquake Simulations,” by Amit Chourasia, Steve Cutchin, Yifeng Cui, Reagan W. Moore, Kim Olsen, Steven M. Day, J. Bernard Minster, Philip Maechling, and Thomas H. Jordan. Purchase the full article PDF at http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MCG.2007.138.

Engineers have always tried to come up with better controllers and input devices for video games, but many PC gamers still use their keyboards. Gaming gloves have always seemed like a good idea in theory, but in practice they could never compete. But now there’s the Peregrine glove, which uses simple conductive strips to replace numerous hotkey commands with simple hand gestures. The Peregrine is a flexible glove that’s simple enough to compete with keyboards.

Humanitarian Technology Challenge, HTC, seeks to develop and implement technological solutions to selected humanitarian efforts in developing countries. The mission is to solve three global challenges selected based upon input from leading humanitarians for their potential impact on humanity, and create solutions that are sustainable, scalable, and adaptable to multiple environments. This video looks more into what the HTC is hoping to accomplish with its participants.

The transistor has been honored with an IEEE Milestone in Electrical Engineering and Computing. To commemorate the historic development, a ceremony was held on 8 December at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, N.J., the place where the transistor was developed more than six decades ago. The program features highlights of some keynote speakers at the ceremony, shots of the first transistor and the exterior of the lab where it was developed, as well as brief interviews with two colleagues of…

In Jordon, they are working on rebuilding a particle accelerator with 30-year-old components. Take a tour of the Middle East’s first Synchrotron, SESAME, a project donated to them by Germany, and learn about the hard work and efforts being put into to reconstruction this technology.

The 2010 IEEE International Microwave Symposium was held in Anaheim, California, and welcomed technologists from all over the world. This is the premier annual international meeting for technologists involved in all aspects of microwave theory and practice. This video highlights the conference, including clips from awards and presentations, lectures, the exhibit and interviews.