One of the more spectacular and entertaining is the plasma speaker, and it’s one [Marcin Wachowiak] has been experimenting with. A continuous plasma in the form of a discharge between two ...

Definitely not in the meme category, though, is this overkill vacuum tube 555 timer. It comes to us via [David Lovett], aka [Usagi Electric], who has lately caught the “hollow state ...

Vacuum tubes are still used in specialized engineering applications such as high-power radio frequency transmitters, audio amplification, and in some display devices. Vacuum tubes act as insulted, ...

A vacuum tube is just that: a glass tube surrounding a vacuum (an area from which all gases have been removed). What makes it interesting is that when electrical contacts are put on the ends ...

The telephone company had problems with vacuum tubes, too, and hoped to find something else to use for switching telephone calls. The idea of somehow using semiconductors (solid materials such as ...

Image credit: Handbook of Modern Sensors Ionization gauge Vacuum gauges which use ions are similar to vacuum tubes. The relationship between the ion current and the filament is a nearly linear ...

iZotope has announced the release of a new plugin that it says is the "world's first" intelligent tube ... of the audio or to focus exclusively on transients or sustained elements. Plasma ships ...

The first of five vacuum vessel sectors for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) has been completed.

My husband dug deep into the rabbit hole of dust mites and what regular vacuums blow out and we will never have a regular vacuum in our home again. We even picked our son's preschool specifically ...

There are many Bluetooth speakers on the market, but finding the best one for you can be hard. See what our CNET experts recommend after testing many of the models out there. Executive Editor ...

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