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In the ongoing drive to make circuitry ever smaller and more powerful, researchers in Canada have taken things to a very small extreme. They devised a method for turning individual silicon atoms into ...

Developed to inspire innovation in hardware, littleBits lets users create circuits in seconds, with no soldering, programming or wiring required. Part prototyping tool, part tech gadget, littleBits ...

Microchip needed to move into the 32-bit space, which was encroaching on its 8- and 16- bit market. But the company didn’t follow the line of ARM adopters. Instead, it looked at the silicon landscape ...

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In honor of Force Friday II, DIY electronic toymaker littleBits launched one of its coolest products yet. The Droid Inventor Kit allows kids to piece together an 11-inch tall, fully-functional R2D2.