Spinoff: Consumer, Home, and Recreation

Damping Goes The Distance In Golf

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

In the late 1980s, Dr. Benjamin Dolgin of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory developed a concept for a high-damping graphite/viscoelastic material for the...

Spinoff: Consumer, Home, and Recreation

Hot And Cold Therapy Eases Pain

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

In the 1960s, NASA civil servant Tom Hughes worked for Marshall Space Flight Center's Quality Control Laboratory as a systems engineer. Reporting directly...

Spinoff: Consumer, Home, and Recreation

A Natural Way To Stay Sweet

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

A revolutionary, low-calorie sugar is now available to the food and beverage market, offering an all-natural alternative to table sugar and artificial...

Spinoff: Consumer, Home, and Recreation

Artificial Muscle Kits For The Classroom

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

Commonly referred to as "artificial muscles," electroactive polymer (EAP) materials are lightweight strips of highly flexible plastic that bend or...

Spinoff: Consumer, Home, and Recreation

Heating And Cooling Efficiency For Homes

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

Over 40 years ago, NASA developed Radiant Barrier technology to protect astronauts in the Apollo Program from temperatures that ranged from 250...

Spinoff: Consumer, Home, and Recreation

Amorphous Alloy Surpasses Steel and Titanium

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

In the same way that the inventions of steel in the 1800s and plastic in the 1900s sparked revolutions for industry, a new class of amorphous...

Spinoff: Consumer, Home, and Recreation

NASA Technology Takes Center Stage

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

In today's fast-paced business world, there is often more information available to researchers than there is time to search through it. Data mining has...

Spinoff: Consumer, Home, and Recreation

Students Soaring High With Software Spinoff

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

An educational software product designed by the Educational Technology Team at Ames Research Center is bringing actual aeronautical work...

Spinoff: Environmental and Agricultural Resources

Water Treatment Systems Make A Big Splash

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

In the 1960s, NASA's Manned Space Center (now known as Johnson Space Center) and the Garrett Corporation, Air Research Division, conducted a...

Spinoff: Environmental and Agricultural Resources

Supporting Weather Data

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

Since its founding in 1992, Global Science & Technology, Inc. (GST), of Greenbelt, Maryland, has been developing technologies and providing services in support...

Spinoff: Environmental and Agricultural Resources

Multi-channel Scaler Cards Improve Data Collection

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

Scientists interested in exploring the intricacies and dynamics of Earth's climate and ecosystems continually need smaller, lighter...

Spinoff: Environmental and Agricultural Resources

Diesel Goes Digital To Save Energy, Lower Emissions

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

Forty years ago, actuators requiring constant energy to help power the Apollo spacecraft in space were replaced by magnetically holding...

Spinoff: Environmental and Agricultural Resources

Securing Safety With Sensors

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

The Robot Systems Technology Branch at NASA's Johnson Space Center collaborated with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to design Robonaut , a...

Spinoff: Environmental and Agricultural Resources

A View From Above Without Leaving The Ground

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

In order to deliver accurate geospatial data and imagery to the remote sensing community, NASA is constantly developing new image-processing...

Spinoff: Environmental and Agricultural Resources

Tree-mendous Timber Evaluation

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

Funded and administered by NASA, the Affiliated Research Center (ARC) program transfers geospatial technologies from the Space Agency and participating...

Spinoff: Computer Technology

Wireless Communications In Space

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

In 1992, NASA and the U.S. Department of Defense jointly commissioned the research and development of a technology solution to address the challenges and...

Spinoff: Computer Technology

Managing Content In A Matter Of Minutes

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

NASA software created to help scientists expeditiously search and organize their research documents is now aiding compliance personnel, law...

Spinoff: Computer Technology

Improving The Flow

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

In early 1995, NASA's Glenn Research Center (then Lewis Research Center) formed an industry-government team with several jet engine companies to develop the National...

Spinoff: Computer Technology

From Video To Photo

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

Ever wonder whether a still shot from a home video could serve as a picture perfect photograph worthy of being framed and proudly displayed on the mantle? Wonder no...

Spinoff: Computer Technology

Conversing With Computers

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

I/NET, Inc., is making the dream of natural human-computer conversation a practical reality. Through a combination of advanced artificial intelligence research...

Spinoff: Computer Technology

Hearing In True 3-D

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

In 1984, researchers from Ames Research Center came together to develop advanced human interfaces for NASA's teleoperations that would come to be known as virtual...

Spinoff: Industrial Productivity & Manufacturing Technology

Reading Through Paint

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

Two-dimensional data matrix symbols, which contain encoded letters and numbers, are permanently etched on items for identification. They can store up to 100 times...

Spinoff: Industrial Productivity & Manufacturing Technology

Material Analysis And Identification

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

KeyMaster Technologies, Inc., develops and markets specialized, hand-held X-ray fluorescence (XRF) instruments and unique tagging technology used to...

Spinoff: Industrial Productivity & Manufacturing Technology

Providing A Turn For The Better

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

Engineers are tasked with designing new systems every day to meet changing or unexpected technical requirements. After the tragic explosion of the Space...

Spinoff: Industrial Productivity & Manufacturing Technology

Fluid Flow Technology That Measures Up

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

From 1994 to 1996, NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center conducted a Center Director's Discretionary Fund research effort to apply artificial...

Spinoff: Industrial Productivity & Manufacturing Technology

A Coating That Cools And Cuts Costs

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

To enable low-cost space access for advanced exploration vehicles, researchers from NASA’s Ames Research Center invented and patented a protective...

Spinoff: Industrial Productivity & Manufacturing Technology

New Glass Serves As Window To Cutting-edge Lasers

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

Since 1997, Marshall Space Flight Center’s Electrostatic Levitator  (ESL) facility has been used to study the characteristics of...

Spinoff: Industrial Productivity & Manufacturing Technology

Smart Camera Technology Increases Quality

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

When it comes to real-time image processing, everyone is an expert. People begin processing images at birth and rapidly learn to control their...

Spinoff: Industrial Productivity & Manufacturing Technology

Helping Aircraft Engines Lighten Up

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

High-temperature polyimide/carbon fiber matrix composites are developed by the Polymers Branch  at NASA’s Glenn Research Center. These...

Spinoff: Industrial Productivity & Manufacturing Technology

Hybrid Tank Technology

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

Researchers have accomplished great advances in pressure vessel technology by applying high-performance composite materials as an over-wrap to metal-lined pressure...