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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...
Question of the Week: Software
Would You Use A.I-Driven Laser Cutters like SensiCut?
Laser cutters are a popular tool for today’s design engineers. Users, however, still face difficulties distinguishing among stockpiles of metals, woods, papers, and plastics.
Articles: Photonics/Optics
See top suppliers and manufacturers in over 20 categories, including high-speed cameras, sensors, and optical components.
Blog: Imaging
Tech Briefs readers ask two industry experts about the effectiveness of CT scans when you want a deeper look at a battery.
INSIDER: Photonics/Optics
Sometimes photos cannot truly capture a scene. How much more epic would that vacation photo of Niagara Falls be if the water were moving?
Products: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Temperature transmitters, robotic tool changers, epoxy adhesives, and more.
INSIDER: Data Acquisition
Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) working in collaboration with colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University, the University of St Andrews and the University of...
Products: Imaging
Multi-sensor imaging systems, eyesafe laser finders, machine vision algorithms, and more.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
VR/AR devices can simulate some of the key difficulties experienced due to glaucoma.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Video can be recreated from motion-blurred images and new cameras may someday retrieve 3D data from 2D medical images.
Briefs: Imaging
Multiple commercial applications include defense, search and rescue, and disaster relief.
Products: Software
Industrial PCs, power modules, processor blades, and more.
Blog: Photonics/Optics
An empty airport tells you more than you might think.
Facility Focus: Aerospace
This NASA center hosts the world’s greatest collection of wind tunnels and flight simulation facilities
Briefs: Imaging
This system places virtual objects within real-world backgrounds on cellphone screens and lets people interact with those objects by hand as if they were really there.
Products: Software
Varjo™ Technologies announced a 2D/3D immersive "Workspace."
INSIDER: Imaging
Imagine a fleet of 100 Hubble Space Telescopes, deployed in a strategic space-invader-shaped array a million miles from Earth, scanning the universe at warp...
NASA Spinoff: Test & Measurement
Spinoff is NASA's annual publication featuring successfully commercialized NASA technology. This commercialization has contributed to the development of products and services in the fields of health and...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Real-time 3D lidar is poised to be the third leg of the trifecta of sensor technologies enabling both advanced driver-assistance (ADAS) and autonomous vehicles. The other two pieces are cameras and radar. David Hall, CEO...
Briefs: AR/AI
A robot is being developed that tracks facial movements to perform human tasks. The robot resembles large, squiggly arms holding tiny cameras. Sitting in a rolling office chair across from one of the arms, the robot's...
NASA Spinoff: AR/AI
Spinoff is NASA’s annual publication featuring successfully commercialized NASA technology. This commercialization has contributed to the development of products and...
Blog: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
A new app opens up robotics to a large user base.
Briefs: Imaging
Researchers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center improved their Flash Thermography capabilities by incorporating transient and lock-in thermography. By adding...
Briefs: Transportation
Design Software Identifies a Product's Performance Tradeoffs
Designing any product — from complex car parts to wrenches — is a balancing act with conflicting performance tradeoffs. Making something lightweight, for instance, may compromise its durability.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Optimal Computational Vision Pipeline (OCVP)
Optimal Computational Vision Pipeline (OCVP) software uses a novel algorithm that allows overlapping point clouds obtained from sensors with displaced position and orientation to be fused together in a common coordinate system with a rigorously linear solution for position and orientation parameters;...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The ability to fly at supersonic speed without producing unsettling sonic booms would re-open a path to faster commercial aviation. In pursuit of aerodynamics that would...
Briefs: Imaging
A new method of X-ray scanning will allow for the visualization of many more biological molecules, providing critical information about what is inside molecules to scientists who...
Products: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Data Acquisition Devices
The USB-1808 Series simultaneous-sampling data acquisition devices from Measurement Computing Corp., Norton, MA, provides synchronous and concurrent voltage I/O, waveform output,...
Briefs: Imaging
Many low-cost sensors (or cameras) may spatially or electronically under-sample an image. Similarly, cameras taking pictures from great distances, such as aerial photos, may not obtain detailed...
Top Stories
Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
2025 Holiday Gift Guide for Engineers: Tech, Tools, and Gadgets
INSIDER: Energy
Scientists Create Superconducting Semiconductor Material
Blog: Software
Blog: Materials
This Paint Can Cool Buildings Without Energy Input
Quiz: Automotive
Blog: Semiconductors & ICs
Webcasts
Upcoming Webinars: Manufacturing & Prototyping
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Podcasts: Medical
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Podcasts: Automotive
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Podcasts: Test & Measurement
