I’ve been leading you astray about data cable in the last couple of columns (April 24, June 5). Many broadcast facilities now have a huge percentage of data cables, such as Category 5 or 5e or 6, in ...

As previously reported, some retractable FireWire cables offered by IOGEAR and other manufacturers may not be suitable for use with portable hard drives because they usually aren't shielded. We've now ...

Keeping tabs on proper FireWire use Making sure that everyone in your organization is properly using FireWire ports is key to avoiding failure. Bryan McGill, a Macintosh administrator, writes: "This ...

Machine-vision hardware technology has become more complex in recent years. Ten years ago, machine-vision engineers would choose an inexpensive analog camera that followed one of the broadcast-video ...

Seagate have announced their third-generation of portable hard-drives, the Seagate GoFlex Storage System, which debuts a system of interchangeable connection adapters that can be used to turn a ...

Of all the designs and inventions Apple patents and trademarks every week, some are really interesting and provide good indication of things to come in Macs and iOS devices. Whilst we’ve recently seen ...

Designed to meet the demands associated with motion-control and vision systems, GORE FireWire High Flex Cable Assemblies from W.L. Gore & Associates can be flexed and bent without causing bit errors ...

Continuous-flex FireWire cables can be used for machine vision applications with long transmission distances of up to 20 meters. Industrial standard FireWire cables can fail prematurely over long ...

Intel has finally launched its new peripheral interconnect technology—formerly codenamed “Light Peak”—now branded “Thunderbolt.” Developed in cooperation with Apple, which introduced Thunderbolt on ...

LaCie’s descriptively-named FireWire Speakers are unique among speakers we’ve tested: rather than connecting to your computer using a standard audio cable, or even a USB cable, these compact (5.3″ ...