Category: Engineering

In the early 1990s, Toyota saw that environmental awareness and tighter emissions regulations would shape the future of the automotive industry. The company aimed to create an eco-friendly, efficient vehicle that would meet future standards.

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Universal translators in science fiction, such as the Babel fish in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, have long offered the dream of instantaneous translation from one spoken language to another. Now, in what may be a key step toward making…

In-hub wheel motors are among the most tantalizing and yet elusive of electric-vehicle technologies. And now, after decades of failures and near-misses, a donut-shaped electric hub motor was among the sweetest offerings at the recent CES show in…

At CES 2025, Lenovo won the race to deliver something various companies have teased for years but never took beyond a prototype: A rollable OLED laptop with an expanding display.

Lenovo’s ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, the first rollable OLED laptop,…

Automakers got one thing right: Electrified cars are the future. What they got wrong was assuming that all of those vehicles would run on battery power alone, with gasoline-electric hybrid technology bound for the technological scrap heap.

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Aside from having four wheels, it’s hard to see what a US $30,000 Toyota Camry has in common with a $3 million Ferrari F80. But these market bookends are examples of an under-the-radar tech revolution. From budget transportation to hypercars,…

This weekend, I’m on my way to Las Vegas to cover this year’s Consumer Electronics Show. I’ve scoured the CES schedule and lists of exhibitors in preparation for the event, where I hope to find fascinating new tech. After all, some prep is…

Buried in the inner workings of your laptop is a secret blueprint, dictating the set of instructions the computer can execute and serving as the interface between hardware and software. The instructions are immutable and hidden behind proprietary…

IEEE Spectrum‘s transportation coverage drew just under half a million visitors in 2024. Readers came to learn the latest news about advances in electric vehicles and battery technology, sustainable energy alternatives, transit infrastructure…

2024 was a year of paradoxes in consumer electronics. While artificial intelligence, augmented reality, and cutting-edge display technology changed how people use their devices, the year also saw a surge in demand for simple, tactile controls and…