Five Infamous Arcade-Game Glitches
Classic arcade games provided great entertainment with limited hardware, but not everything always worked as designed
iCandy: June 2010
IEEE Spectrum's monthly slideshow proves that a picture is worth a thousand bytes
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The Five Missing iPad Accessories
The iPad has many flaws. These gizmos will fix them
The 25 Most Striking IEEE Spectrum Covers of All Time
We dug through our dusty archives to bring you the best cover images-and also some strange ones-in IEEE Spectrum's history. What's your favorite?
The Power of Batteries
Author Henry Schlesinger talks about the birth and evolution of the battery
iCandy: 2010 Shanghai World Expo Edition
This month, we look at the world's vision of Earth's future
Tesla's Power Tower
At the turn of the 20th century, Nikola Tesla built a laboratory and a huge tower for transmitting electrical power, only to abandon the site a few years later
iCandy: April 2010
IEEE Spectrum's monthly slideshow proves that a picture is worth a thousand bytes
Ode to the Uncanny Valley
The concept of the "uncanny valley'' that humanlike robots become creepy when lifelike appearance is approached but not attained has been the subject of several studies and has gained notoriety in popular culture, but it remains a controversial notion in some robotics circles. Is it a valid scientific conjecture or just pseudoscience? Watch our slideshow and tell us what you think.
DIY Analog Synths
Baltimore artist Jay Dilisio couldn't afford the vintage analog synthesizers he craved. So he built his own