One ever-pervasive piece of technology that has almost escalated into a necessity since its inception is the speaker. Almost every device we use has one or more of them: cell phones, televisions, iPods, hand-held game systems, etc. But do you know how they work?
Storage with Quantum Mechanics
One thing that almost everybody has used but don’t know how it works is a Universal Serial Bus (USB) flash drive. The only thing most people know about it is that you plug it in and you can store files on it. But what is it that happens inside that magical little stick that allows you to store massive amounts of data? Continue reading