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The app detects fluid behind the eardrum using a piece of paper and a smartphone’s microphone and speaker.
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The software could help reduce cost and waste for companies using additive manufacturing to mass-produce parts in factories.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Movements of individual particles of light are reconstructed to see through clouds, fog, and other obstructions.
Briefs: Materials
Using gold nanomaterials, this disk can hold data securely for more than 600 years.
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A smartphone, combined with nanoscale porous silicon, enables inexpensive, simple, home diagnostics.
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The wearable prototype can stream, in real time, an identifying signature based on the electrical activity of a person's heart.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
Applications include monitoring of earthquakes and tsunamis as well as manmade infrasonic sources such as boats.
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Programmed magnetic nanobeads are used to detect the virus in 55 minutes or less.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Study shows improvements to chemical sensing chip that aims to quickly and accurately identify drugs and other trace chemicals.
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A "smart building" platform incorporates hardware, software, and cloud analytics to form a digital "backbone."
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This built-in security measure would prevent hackers from getting enough information about the circuit to reverse-engineer it.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
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The software automatically maps designs from CAD software to additive manufacturing to help cut unnecessary steps.
Briefs: Software
This quantum language is the first of its kind that is as elegant, simple, and safe as classical computer languages.
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Once confined to the role of machine visualization, modern unified HMI software now delivers better user interfaces, containerization, and remote device management.
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The chip combines two functions — logic operations and data storage — into a single architecture, paving the way to more efficient devices.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The material, commonly found in house paint, can be used in a device to more efficiently process information.
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The smartwatch app identifies sounds that a user is interested in and sends a friendly buzz and information about the sound.
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As ICs continue to become smaller and chip complexity increases, manufacturers still need to ensure reliability to their customers.
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Computations are done solely with beams of light.
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
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Future robots could be taught how to outperform humans.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A NIST method employs a neural network to detect patterns like geometric objects in imaging data.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The software assesses the quality of parts in real time, without the need for expensive characterization equipment.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The algorithm provides an extra layer of safety and security against hackers of electronic devices.
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