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Electro-Optical Products Corp. (New York, NY)has introduced the Model CH-62 Optical Chopper/Shutter, a low cost variable low frequency device (DC to 25Hz) that consists of a blade mounted on a motor with a limited...
Products
TRUMPF Inc. (Farmington, CT) has introduced the next generation of TruDiode lasers. The two newest additions to TRUMPF’s diode laser product line are the TruDiode 151, a 150 watt fiber-coupled laser and the TruDiode 301 which...
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Raptor Photonics (Larne, Northern Ireland) has added another product to its lineup of EMCCD cameras. The Falcon BLUE offers UV transmission using a MgF2 window which will pick up signals as low as 180nm. The...
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Latest Advances in Invisibility Cloak Technology
Michigan Technological University’s invisibility cloak researchers have moved the bar on one of the holy grails of physics – making objects invisible. Just last month, Elena Semouchkina, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Michigan Tech, and her graduate student,...
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Solar Panels As Inexpensive As Paint? Researchers Say It’s Possible.
According to recent polls, most Americans want the U.S. to place more emphasis on developing solar power. A major impediment, however, is the cost to manufacture, install and maintain solar panels. Simply put, most people and businesses cannot afford to place them on their...
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Tilt Sensor May Extend Capabilities of Ultrasonic Devices
Echolocation is a powerful technique that uses sound or ultrasound waves to locate objects and surfaces. Ships and submarines, for example, use it to avoid collisions, and dolphins and microbats use it to locate prey (see image). A team from the A*STAR Institute of Microelectronics in...
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NASA Designs Radiometer to Improve Climate Models
A NASA team designed a sophisticated microwave radiometer to overcome the pitfalls that have plagued similar Earth-observing instruments in the past.
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Is your product certified for use internationally by complying with the relevant safety standards worldwide?
In 2013, Littelfuse is taking engineers behind the scenes at NASA for a truly unique Exploration & Discovery experience. Speed2Design TechTalk events will be hosted at two premiere NASA facilities. Winners will meet face-to-face with NASA...
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Is It Right to Bring Back an Extinct Species?
Recently, Russian scientists discovered perfectly preserved blood and muscle tissue of a woolly mammoth buried in the permafrost of the Lyakhovsky Islands in Siberia. The blood had dripped out of the giant animal into a natural ice capsule. The news comes amid a debate on whether scientists should try...
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Tracking Gunfire With A Smartphone
Picture this. You are walking down the street with a friend when a shot is fired. The two of you duck behind the nearest cover and you pull out your smartphone. A map of the neighborhood pops up on its screen with a large red arrow indicating the direction from which the shot came.
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Army Develops New Aviation Sensors Test Trailer
The development of a new test asset for Army aviation sensors brings results and solutions at a faster pace. Named the Mobile Apache Sensors Telemetry Trailer, the new sensor test trailer, a collaborated development effort by the Apache Project Office and the Redstone Test Center's Aviation Flight...
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Fertilizer Fizzles If Used In Homemade Bomb
A Sandia engineer who trained U.S. soldiers to avoid improvised explosive devices (IEDs) has developed a fertilizer that helps plants grow but can’t detonate a bomb. It’s an alternative to ammonium nitrate, an agricultural staple that is also the raw ingredient in most of the IEDs in Afghanistan....
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Chemical 'Glue' Binds Molecules to Metal Surfaces
An MIT team has developed a method for attaching molecules to metal surfaces. The new approach uses a family of chemicals called carbenes to attach other substances to gold — and potentially to other material surfaces as well. Carbenes could function as “surface anchors” to link many...
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New Resin Enables Micro-Sculpting of Conductive 3D Structures
Combined with state-of-the-art micro-sculpting techniques, a new resin holds promise for making customized electrodes for fuel cells or batteries, as well as biosensor interfaces for medical uses.
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Researchers Turn Smartphone into Handheld Biosensor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers have developed a cradle and app for the iPhone that uses the device’s built-in camera and processing power as a biosensor to detect toxins, proteins, bacteria, viruses and other molecules.
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Advanced Paper Repels Liquids
By modifying the underlying network of cellulose fibers, etching off surface “fluff” and applying a thin chemical coating, researchers have created a new type of paper that repels a wide variety of liquids, including water and oil.
Question of the Week
Do Social Tools Make Employees More Productive?
According to a recent Microsoft survey conducted by research firm Ipsos, nearly 50% of employees believe social tools make them more productive while more than 30% of companies restrict the use or undervalue them. Typical professional uses for social networks include communicating with colleagues,...
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New Light-Controlled Hydrogel Has A Future in Soft Robotics
Inspired by the way plants grow toward the sun and light sources, researchers from the University of California, Berkeley have created a hydrogel that is controllable by light.
Products: Data Acquisition
VRmagic (Mannheim, Germany) has introduced the VRmDAVC-2, an intelligent version of the company’s USB frame grabber. In combination with analog cameras, the frame grabber provides users with a platform that performs image...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Edmund Optics® (Barrington, NJ) offers Mitutoyo Glass Thickness-Compensated Infinity Corrected Objectives. The components are suited for imaging objects through glass up to 3.5 mm thick. Applications for the G Plan...
Products: Imaging
FLIR Systems (Portland, OR) has released its SC6800 infrared camera. The device captures sensitive infrared imagery at up to 565 frames per second, in full 640 × 512 pixel resolution. The images can be thermographically and...
Products: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Cognex Corporation (Natick, MA) has announced the DS1000 3D laser profiling system. The system calibrates real-world units of measurement for inspections too difficult to perform with traditional two-dimensional...
Products: Imaging
IDS Imaging Development Systems (Woburn, MA) offers a new stereo 3D camera: the Ensenso ™ N10. The Ensenso™ N10 is fitted with two global shutter CMOS sensors and a pattern projector that projects a static,...
Products: Imaging
e-con Systems (St Louis, MO) has released the Full HD MIPI Camera Board, e- CAM51_44×, for Texas Instruments’ OMAP4 family of processors. The e-CAM51_44× camera board is interfaced to the PandaBoard, which is based on the...
Products: Imaging
The Imaging Source (Charlotte, NC) has announced monochrome and color FireWire 800 cameras. The cameras have an Aptina CMOS or Sony CCD sensor, 1/4'' to 1/1.8''. Other features of the 29 × 29 × 47 mm devices include resolution...
Products: Imaging
D-Link (Fountain Valley, CA) has introduced the DGS- 1100-08P switch. The DGS- 1100-08P delivers Power-over- Ethernet (PoE) capabilities for IP surveillance, VoIP phone, and access point deployment.
Articles: Robotics, Automation & Control
When airline passengers travel in coach class, expectations are fairly low with regard to comfort. For example, most seats only offer two positions: straight for takeoff and landing, and a slight recline for the journey. Coach seats are relatively simple and lightweight structures compared to their more sophisticated counterparts in business class, first class, and super first class. Whereas a coach seat weighs approximately 100 pounds, seats in higher classes weigh 200 to 300 pounds each, depending on their features.
Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
The AIRCAP® automatic draft stop, offered in the Mercedes-Benz E-Class convertibles, is distinctively different from conventional angular wind deflectors. It is entirely...
Products: Robotics, Automation & Control
The NV type STUDROLLER™ from NB Corp. (Hanover Park, IL) is designed for motion control applications with extremely fast acceleration and deceleration at dimensions ranging from 30 to 600-mm lengths. The slide features Anti-Creep Cage...
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