Mechanical

If last year’s Logitech Pop Keys wireless mechanical keyboard was all style and no substance, then Logitech’s newly announced MX Mechanical keyboards are the polar opposite. These are aggressively functional keyboards with sensible feature sets, sensible designs, and sensible layouts. That can make the $169.99 MX Mechanical and $149.99 MX Mechanical Mini seem like outliers in the world of mechanical keyboards, which often use flashy designs, RGB lighting, and colorful keycaps to grab your attention. But Logitech’s new…

Logitech has launched two new mechanical keyboards and an ergonomic mouse to its Master Series. The Logitech MX Mechanical and MX Mechanical Mini come with the latest generation of low-profile mechanical switches. The MX Mechanical Mini keyboard is the compact variant of the full-size MX Mechanical keyboard. The new ergonomic mouse, MX Master 3S, is the improved version of the MX Master 3 mouse. The company claims that the mouse is 90 percent quieter than the MX Master 3. The new keyboards and the mouse are currently…

Logitech’s MX Master series of wireless mice is renowned for its comfort, customization and ability to switch seamlessly among up to three different devices. If you’re working with more than one computer at a time, the company’s Logi Flow feature is really helpful because you can drag the mouse pointer across from one desktop to another and the wireless connection will switch with you, even taking the clipboard contents along for copy and paste. Up until now, if you wanted a wireless keyboard that would work with Logi…

Logitech has announced the MX Master 3S mouse and two wireless MX Mechanical keyboards. The mouse is the update to the uberpopular MX Master 3, while the MX Mechanical keyboards are totally new products that promise to leverage Logitech’s expertise in gaming keyboards. The MX Mechanical keyboard comes in a full size and a compact 75% variant known as the MX Mechanical Mini. Both look to combine the strengths of mechanical keyboards with the productivity-focused features of the company’s MX Keys membrane keyboard.…

When it comes to computing peripherals, Logitech has built a legacy that's hard to match. The MX Master Series, for one, is highly regarded for its productivity-enhancing keyboards and mice. While Logitech's G-line, for gaming, offers a slew of quality gear that have earned rankings on ZDNet's best lists. Today, Logitech is bringing a new entrant to its MX Master Series; a mechanical keyboard that promises the productivity chaps of its…

By this time tomorrow, every drop of blood in your body will have passed through your kidneys dozens of times. With each pass, water saturated with waste is removed to form urine, and freshly cleaned blood then returns back into circulation.  We might imagine this vital task as a kind of force-fed filtration driven by the thumping pressures of our heartbeat. But, according to a new study co-authored by Johns Hopkins mechanical engineer Sean Sun, that description isn't quite as accurate as once thought."Everyone hears…

A couple of years ago, I switched from using a Brydge keyboard with a Google Pixel Slate and enjoyed the clicky experience of a Keychron K2 wireless mechanical keyboard. For the past few weeks, I had the opportunity to enter text on various devices with the new Keychron K8 Pro QMK/VIA wireless mechanical keyboard.The new keyboard was sent along as a barebone keyboard with a keycaps kit and a set of Gateron G Pro mechanical brown…

Quantum non-demolition measurements refer to observing certain quantum states without destroying them. It's a difficult process. Having a functioning quantum computer that does not break down while calculations are made can go a long way in addressing the problems. So, scientists have discovered a new technique for recording quantum non-demolition measurements. This technique involves mechanical quantum systems – objects relatively large in quantum computing terms but otherwise exceedingly tiny.The scientists used a thin…

There's a key aspect of quantum computing you may not have thought about before. Called 'quantum non-​demolition measurements', they refer to observing certain quantum states without destroying them in the process.  If we want to put together a functioning quantum computer, not having it break down every second while calculations are made would obviously be helpful. Now, scientists have described a new technique for recording quantum non-demolition measurements that shows a lot of promise.In this case, the research…

Optical microscope image of the acoustic resonator viewed from above (two larger disks, the inner of which is the piezoelectric transducer) and of the antenna connected to the superconducting qubit (white structure). Credit: Adapted from von Lüpke et al. Nat. Phys. DOI: 10.1038/s41567-022-01591-2 (2022)New experimental work establishes how quantum properties of mechanical quantum systems can be measured without destroying the quantum state.Systems in which mechanical motion is controlled at the level of individual quanta…