powerconverter

Latest

  • Getty Creative

    MIT researchers built an energy-sipping power converter

    by 
    Andrew Dalton
    Andrew Dalton
    02.21.2017

    Researchers from MIT's Microsystems Technologies Laboratories have built a new power supply system designed specifically for powering electronic sensors, wireless radios and other small devices that will eventually connect the Internet of Things. While most power converters deliver a constant stream of voltage to a device, MIT's new scheme allows low-power devices to cut their resting power consumption by up to 50 percent.

  • HD-DVD external drive the next big thing

    by 
    Ken Weeks
    Ken Weeks
    08.03.2006

    This pic of the Xbox 360 HD-DVD external drive gives you a little (or should I say alot) more perspective on the size of the beast. El Jefe, aka the big black power converter, is pleased.[Thanks Zack]