Sales of peripherals could get a boost this year as the two primary technologies for connecting external devices to PCs get turbocharged. PC makers in recent months have begun installing a high-speed ...

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 ...

Most modern Macs—except for the MacBook Air and some MacBook models—offer both FireWire and USB connections. When shopping for an external hard drive, then, you have many options for something that ...

This document describes how to use the DLP LightCrafter with the global trigger function of industrial USB, FireWire, and GigE CCD cameras from The Imaging Source ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Whether you have a compact or mirrorless camera or even a DSLR, it likely has a USB port where you can plug it into your computer or other ...

A number of companies are working toward a new USB technology that will connect the world of gadgets without the need for a PC to act as middleman. The Universal Serial Bus, originally viewed as a ...

Sometimes also called IEEE-1394, the FireWire standard allows for high-speed connections to external drives. FireWire 400 is roughly comparable to USB 2.0, and drives and ports using FireWire 800 are ...