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Question of the Week: Imaging
Would You Use ‘PocketView?’
Ever need your phone but your hands are full? A new display being developed at the University of Waterloo uses LEDs to display phone messages through fabrics. The “PocketView” shows notifications for email or messages, time, weather, or other forms of basic information.
Technology Leaders: Imaging
InGaAs is interesting, but is it useful?
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
See how hyperspectral imaging adds value to food inspection systems.
Application Briefs: Unmanned Systems
An expert compares Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) LiDAR systems with Time of Flight tech.
Articles: Photonics/Optics
See how solid-state lasers have grown and diversified over the years.
Briefs: Imaging
For the first time, a team has measured the volume of individual droplets smaller than 100 trillionths of a liter, with an uncertainty of less than 1%.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Columbia researchers are reducing both the size and the power consumption of a visible-spectrum phase modulator, from one millimeter to 10 microns.
Briefs: Imaging
A new imaging method measure temperature in 2D.
Products: Test & Measurement
Spectrometers, digital microscopes, high-speed imaging, and more.
Articles: Materials
A metal-coated fiber capable of withstands high temperatures.
Technology Leaders: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The method combines concepts of global and local stereo methods for accurate, pixel- wise matching at low runtime.
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
See what integrated building systems can do to enhance the working and living environment inside a commercial building.
Application Briefs: Imaging
Learn the internal functioning of an AI processor that pulls from a variety of sensors, including radar, lidar, sonar, and cameras.
Briefs: Wearables
A study seeks to understand how different parts of the brain communicate with other.
Briefs: Wearables
Researchers successfully demonstrated the use of the human body as a medium for transmitting and harvesting energy to power wearables.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Design of miniature optical systems could lead to future cell phones that can detect viruses and more.
Articles: Internet of Things
The biggest challenge in the provisioning process: ensuring that a device and the connection to the network and server are secure.
Articles: Test & Measurement
Automation can crumble, even when only one cog is loose, says Brad Walters from Monnit.
Application Briefs: Connectivity
The grid’s growing size and complexity increases vulnerability to cyberattacks.
Articles: Wearables
A smart roof coating, a wearable RFID sensor tag, and a 3D-printed OLED display.
Articles: Electronics & Computers
Find the right components that protect your electronics from the effects of temperature and moisture.
Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
Researchers have created an electronic microsystem that can intelligently respond to information inputs without any external energy input, much like a...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The method could support the semiconductor industry and facilitate development of next-gen devices.
Briefs: Materials
Applications include power and energy, communications, and sensors.
Briefs: Energy
In-wall capacitors power lights, phones, and laptops without wires.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The material could potentially provide a platform for error-free quantum computing.
Briefs: Nanotechnology
The nanothin material could advance self-powered electronics, wearable technologies, and even deliver pacemakers powered by heartbeats.
Briefs: Wearables
The test can simultaneously diagnose cases, track variants, and detect co-infections.
Briefs: Imaging
The technology could benefit firefighters, miners, the military, plumbers, and households.
Briefs: Wearables
The smartphone-based device could reduce the pressure on testing laboratories during a pandemic.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This testing method ensures that an exoskeleton and the person wearing it are moving smoothly and in harmony.
Briefs: Imaging
The test uses a smartphone microscope and could deliver results in about 10 minutes.
Briefs: Energy
Invisibly small nanotubes aligned as fibers and sewn into fabrics can turn heat from the Sun or other sources into energy.
Briefs: Energy
This process could improve large touchscreens, LED light panels, and window-mounted infrared solar cells.
Briefs: Packaging & Sterilization
The coatings eradicated human influenza and coronavirus in five minutes.
Briefs: Nanotechnology
Mechanical properties, such as strength and ductility, can be improved for car, plane, and building components.
Briefs: Wearables
These textiles could help performers and athletes train their breathing and potentially help patients recovering from post-surgery breathing changes.
Briefs: Energy
This scalable power processing unit (PPU) is for use with low-power Hall effect thrusters.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
A new catalyst and microchannel reactors improve efficiency and cost of the process.
Briefs: Energy
The system could allow for flight speeds of Mach 6 to 17 and would have applications in air and space travel.
Briefs: Imaging
The engine could make rockets not only more fuel-efficient, but also more lightweight and less complicated to construct.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This system would extend the life of CubeSat satellites.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The aerogels safely remove contaminants from water without releasing any problematic chemical residue.
Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
The long-lasting, environmentally benign fire-retarding treatment, if used on high-risk areas, could dramatically cut the number of fires that occur each year.
Briefs: Materials
This remote forest fire detection and alarm system is powered by nothing but the movement of the trees in the wind.
Briefs: Materials
The sustainable material offers a zero-waste solution to boost recycling and support the circular economy.
Briefs: Energy
Carbon nanotubes are used to create solar cells with unprecedented flexibility and resistance.
Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
A method converts cotton into sugar, which can be turned into spandex, nylon, or ethanol.
Briefs: Materials
The handheld printer deposits sheets of skin to cover large burn wounds and its bio-ink accelerates healing.
Briefs: Wearables
The patch enables unobtrusive drug delivery through the skin for the management of skin cancers.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The tool diagnoses a stroke based on abnormalities in a person’s speech and facial movements.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The lenses enable the painless diagnosis or early detection of ocular diseases including glaucoma.
Briefs: Materials
The bandage captures and holds a pro-healing molecule at the site of a bone break to accelerate and improve the natural healing process.
Briefs: Medical
3D bioprinting using bioink from engineered stem cells enables treatment of myocardial infarction and other cardiovascular diseases.
Briefs: Wearables
The mobile phone app enables regular monitoring of glucose levels in people with diabetes.
Briefs: Connectivity
The technology is aimed at protecting physical targets, such as utilities and infrastructure.
Briefs: Manned Systems
The simulations provide insight on the models needed to simulate a full-scale landing event.
Application Briefs: Aerospace
What began as a research tool to collect aerodynamic data from research aircraft is now solving technical challenges for NASA.
Products: Test & Measurement
Smart contactors, an industrial edge platform, tiny engines, and more.
Facility Focus: Energy
Michigan engineers and collaborators are improving smart infrastructure, autonomous transportation, weather prediction, nuclear non-proliferation, and more.
Products: Test & Measurement
Instron has announced its 3400 and 6800 Series high-force universal testing systems.
Products: Data Acquisition
A Smart Gadget, a simulator module, and a holographic display.
Special Reports: Automotive
Engine Technology - March 2022
From diesel to electric to hydrogen, SAE's Truck & Off-Highway Engineering magazine reports on the latest advances in commercial vehicle engines. Stay up to date with this compendium of recent articles...Special Reports: Electronics & Computers
Unmanned Systems - March 2022
Powering better battlefield drones...autonomous quadcopters that fly aerobatic maneuvers...a breakthrough in compact UAV satellite communications technology. Read about these and other advances in air, ground, and...INSIDER: Imaging
Two-Axis Laser Scan Head
Aerotech Inc. (Pittsburgh, PA) has released the AGV-XPO, a high-dynamic, two-axis laser scan head that combines low-inertia, high-efficiency motors with ultra-high resolution position feedback and...
INSIDER: Photonics/Optics
Inside every cellphone is a tiny mechanical heart, beating several billion times a second. These micromechanical resonators play an essential role in cellphone communication. Buffeted by the...
INSIDER: Photonics/Optics
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and ELI-Beamlines in the Czech Republic have reached a major agreement that will build on the relationship between the two organizations and ramp...
INSIDER: Data Acquisition
When thirsty residents of a permanent community on the Moon take a swig of fresh water brought in from the lunar south pole, they’ll be enjoying the benefits of a 30-pound spacecraft known...
Q&A: Materials
An inexpensive, clear coating has reduced snow and ice accumulation on solar panels, enabling them to generate up to 85% more energy in early testing.
Blog: Green Design & Manufacturing
An industry expert supports a “diesel engine without the diesel fuel.”
Question of the Week: Energy
Will Battery Recycling Efforts Take Off?
Have you listened to the latest episode of our podcast series Here’s an Idea?
5 Ws: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A newly designed wearable magnetic metamaterial could help make MRI scans crisper, faster, and cheaper.
Blog: Electronics & Computers
Makers of a brain-computer interface recall a memorable achievement in prosthetics: A presidential handshake.
INSIDER: Energy
Renewable energy has an intermittency problem — the sun provides no power at night, while winds can stop suddenly.
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
In a milestone for renewable energy integration, General Electric (GE) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) operated a common class of wind turbines in grid-forming mode, which...
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
A new, internet-connected lighting system for greenhouses could sharply reduce a farmer’s electrical bill, according to a study by University of Georgia researchers.
INSIDER: Power
The largest ever simulation of its kind, modeled on the Texas power grid, concluded that consumers stand to save about 15 percent on their annual electric bills by partnering with...
Podcasts: Electronics & Computers
Marcus Gerhardt and his company at Blackrock Neurotech are creating a brain-computer interface that restores senses for paralyzed patients.
Blog: Energy
A reader asks how to check the longevity and capacity of vehicle batteries.
Application Briefs: Aerospace
How CSEM and its partners are using magnetic levitation to counter unwanted vibrations from components aboard satellites.
Question of the Week: Electronics & Computers
Can 'Charging Rooms' Catch On?
One of the Tech Briefs highlighted in the second section of today’s INSIDER is a “charging room” from the University of Michigan and University of Tokyo that provides electricity over the air. The aluminum test area uses magnetic fields to deliver 50 watts and power-up devices, no matter their location within...
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
A haptic thumb-shaped sensor uses machine learning to accurately estimate where objects come into contact with the sensor and how large the applied forces are.
Blog: Energy
An MIT team has a water-free way to charge up dust on solar panels and repel it away.
Blog: Software
A reader asks about the role of simulation when automakers like Toyota have a more “model-based” design approach.
Question of the Week: Software
Are You Taking a ‘Model-Based’ Design Approach?
A reader had the following question for an industry expert from the Germany-based simulation services provider Siemens:
NASA Spinoff: Aerospace
NASA’s grip-strengthening glove technology aims to reduce workplace stress injuries.
Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
You can design something special when you begin with a blank piece of paper on a wall. Editor Ed Brown shares a lesson learned from his early days as an engineer.
Blog: Power
The wire harness is changing as vehicles become “computers on wheels.” A reader asks how electrification impacts the wiring harness.
INSIDER: Physical Sciences
Crane operators at a construction site can be guided to safely and quickly transport heavy loads using an equation derived from studying the motion of a tortional pendulum.
INSIDER: Propulsion
Carnegie Mellon University's Corey Harper, an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Heinz School of Public Policy, led a study that...
INSIDER: Motion Control
High-resolution solid-state lidar using an array of MEMS switches will reduce its cost to match that of inexpensive, chip-based cameras and radar systems — removing a major barrier to...
INSIDER: Motion Control
The first fully autonomous biohybrid fish from human stem-cell-derived cardiac muscle cells has been developed by Harvard University researchers in collaboration with colleagues from Emory...
Blog: Medical
The future of computing is in fabrics, says Prof, Yoel Fink from MIT.
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Rowheel, which was a winning technology at SAE’s Create the Future Design Contest in 2010, continues to roll forward.
Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
1 Year? 5 years? 10? A reader wants an industry expert to predict when 3D printing will truly catch on in automotive manufacturing.
Top Stories
Blog: Energy
Beyond Lithium: The Rise of Calcium-Ion Energy Storage
Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The Kitchen Tech Hack Aiming to Revolutionize 3D Printing
Blog: Design
A Shield for the Next Generation: Lithium Batteries Get a Major Upgrade
Blog: AR/AI
Trailblazing Innovators: Meet Rising Star Award Winner Sadiyah Sabah...
Quiz: Aerospace
How Much Do You Know About Jet Engine Components?
INSIDER: Motion Control
Webcasts
Webinars: Unmanned Systems
Driving Reliability: Simulation Driven EMI Techniques for Modern Vehicle...
Editorial Webinars: Defense
Smarter Aerospace Manufacturing & Design with Digital Twins and Agentic AI
Webinars: Materials
Superior Environmental Protection with Ultra-Thin Parylene and Multilayer...
Webinars: RF & Microwave Electronics
Where Time and Frequency Converge: Multi-Channel RF Analysis for Radar and...
Webinars: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The Over-Engineering Trap: Aligning Custom Equipment Specs with Operational...
Podcasts: Electronics & Computers
How AI Acceleration Strategies Are Changing Embedded Computing Architectures
