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Articles: Aerospace
NASA Ames Research Center is located in the heart of California’s Silicon Valley, surrounded by high-tech companies, universities, and laboratories. With over $3 billion in capital equipment, 2,500 research personnel, and...
Articles: Software
Sharing 3D Designs: Compatibility is the “Word”
In last year’s roundtable, one of our executives predicted that one day, sharing 3D designs would be as easy as sharing Microsoft Word documents...
Articles: Photonics/Optics
The majority of laser types in current use produce output beams with circular or elliptical crosssections, with either Gaussian or near- Gaussian intensity profiles....
Articles: Software
In our annual poll of executives in the Design and PLM Software market, we asked our experts about topics ranging from mobile applications and CAD in the cloud, to improving productivity and enhancing the user...
Articles: Lighting
As lighting technologies transition from power-hungry incandescents to coldcathode fluorescent lamps (CCFLs), and now to light-emitting diodes (LEDs), it is clear that while end-users are willing...
Articles: Lighting Technology
Highly regarded for their maintenance-free, energy-efficient operation, and environmental friendliness in a wide range of industrial applications, light-emitting diode (LED) lighting solutions are quickly becoming a...
Articles: Imaging
In a world where oil production is declining, and where both nuclear energy plant and spent-fuel storage safety have proven to be inadequate, there is increased pressure on solar power generation to...
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Vote for Product of the Year
Voting is officially open for the 2011 NASA Tech Briefs Readers’ Choice Product of the Year awards. You can cast your vote for one of 12 nominees featured this year as Products of the Month.
Articles: Imaging
Machine vision systems have three basic components: a camera to acquire images; software to extract actionable information about the objects in the images; and a computer to run the image processing...
Articles: Motion Control
Reducing design time is critical in engineering because the result is lower costs and faster time to market. Design time often includes a number of non-value-added activities such as re-design,...
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
It’s that time of year when we ask NASA Tech Briefs readers to vote for the annual Readers’ Choice Product of the Year Awards.
Articles: Software
The evolution of operator interfaces has moved quite far beyond the pushbutton. Once, the intelligence resided in the operator’s brain, and considerable experience and training were required to...
Articles: Research Lab
Innovators at NASA’s Glenn Research Center design game-changing spaceflight technologies that advance exploration of our solar system. They have also established themselves as global leaders in aeronautics by...
Articles: Imaging
New Video Documents Three-Year Trek by Mars Rover
A new video compiles 309 images taken by NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, providing an historic record of a three-year trek that totaled about 13 miles across a Martian plain pocked with smaller craters. While Opportunity was traveling from Victoria crater to Endeavour crater, between...
Articles: Materials
As the sustainable design movement continues to grow rapidly throughout the US, architectural engineers, building product manufacturers, and construction business...
Articles: Materials
New NASA Material Redefines “Dark”
NASA engineers have produced a material that absorbs, on average, more than 99 percent of the ultraviolet, visible, infrared, and far-infrared light that hits it -- a development that promises to open new frontiers in space technology.
Engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD, developed...
Articles: Photonics/Optics
NASA Looks to Make Tractor Beams a Reality
Tractor beams — the ability to trap and move objects using laser light — are not just “Star Trek” science fiction, and are not beyond current technology. A team of NASA scientists has won funding to study the concept of remotely capturing planetary or atmospheric particles, and delivering them to a...
Articles: Software
One of the advantages resulting from a slow economy is the increased scrutiny placed on reducing expenses and improving efficiency. This has been the case during the past few years in the...
Articles: Test & Measurement
In the 1960s, NASA’s John C. Stennis Space Center, all but hidden away in the piney woods of south Mississippi, built a reputation of excellence in testing the massive first and second stages of the Saturn rocket...
Articles: Photonics/Optics
Everywhere we look we are bombarded with 3D. It’s in movies, in-home entertainment, digital camcorders, gaming systems, laptops, and even in our labs. What is it about 3D that is so...
Articles: Software
In our annual poll of executives in the Analysis & Simulation Software market, we asked our experts about growth in a struggling economy, how software is evolving, strides in...
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Monika Weber, Christopher Yerino, Hazael Montanaro, Kane Siu Lung Lo, and Mark Reed, Yale University, New Haven, CT Every year, food-borne bacteria cause thousands of infections in humans and animals. Outbreaks of E.Coli and...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
iPecs
Michael Leydet, College Park Industries, Fraser, MI
The College Park Industries iPecs® (In telligent Prosthetic Endo-Skeletal Com ponent System) is a medical research device that will provide researchers with...
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
UVA+B SunFriend
Karin Edgett, Washington, DC, and Shahid Aslam, Greenbelt, MD
About 90% of non-melanoma and 65% of melanoma skin cancers are associated with ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the Sun. About...
Articles: Robotics, Automation & Control
Hybrid Rotor Compressor for Natural Gas Extraction
Jeremy Pitts and Pedro Santos, OsComp Systems, Boston, MA
Natural gas is a booming industry in the U.S. and represents a bridge energy solution to a...
Articles: Medical
XVIVO Organ Perfusion System
Chris Jaynes, Tom Taccini, and Tim Klug, XVIVO Perfusion, Englewood, CO
In the United States, only 15% of available donor lungs are transplanted into critical recipients due to the...
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
AquaSonus Passive-Sonar Pool Alarm
William C. Roberts, Bob Hoenig, and Paula Bailey, AquaSonus.com, Merrimack, NH
Drowning is the second leading cause of death for children, and most drownings occur in...
Articles: Transportation
Dynamic Aero-Shroud Oscillating Jet
Rebecca Farr, Endwell Daso, Victor Pritchett, and Dr. Ten-See Wang, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL
Applying supersonic counter-flowing cold gas jets of a...
Articles: Green Design & Manufacturing
TO:CMA Spherical Generator
Angel Francisco Martinez, Delia Beatriz Martinez, and Trupti Bulbule, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
The TO:CMA Spherical Generator creates copious amounts of clean...
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