3 Steps to Intelligent Life-Cycle Management

By Dan Crippen

Most professionals are aware of what a product life-cycle is, how it works and why it matters. In short, a product gets introduced into the marketplace where it (typically) starts on a bell curve reaching maturity and then phasing out of relevance. For some industries like clothing this phase out may bleed into some new…

Self-Destructing Computer Chips

By Dan Crippen

Incredible! At the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center they have successfully developed a self-destructing microchip. What enables this awesome, spy movie-esque explosion is the fact that the chip is created using strained Gorilla Glass, essentially Gorilla Glass that is just waiting to break. Currently they are using laser light to trigger a special self-destruct resistor…