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Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
This approach could result in developing chemical sensors that are sensitive at a very low level to a specific chemical in the environment.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The technology shines through fabrics to show notifications for email messages, time, weather, or other forms of basic information.
Briefs: Data Acquisition
This system enables fast analysis of hyperspectral images in disaster response or target detection scenarios.
Briefs: Imaging
In an airport, the scanner could eliminate the need for passengers to remove shoes at the checkpoint, speeding the screening process.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The camera could have uses in faster disease diagnosis and thinner cellphones.
Briefs: Imaging
The camera captures pulse and respiration signals from a video of a person’s face.
Briefs: Energy
Using ambient light, the reflective screen keeps energy consumption to a minimum.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
Applications include aircraft-mounted and space-based interferometers, electronics fabrication, and military optics.
5 Ws: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Imagine a tablet or Kindle that can display braille on command for the visually impaired.
Blog: Photonics/Optics
There are some things you just can't do at a virtual trade show. Editor Bruce A. Bennett walks the floor at SPIE Photonics West.
INSIDER: Imaging
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope successfully launched on December 25 on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, South America. A joint effort with ESA (European...
INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Scientists at the University of Birmingham have succeeded in creating an experimental model of an elusive kind of fundamental particle called a skyrmion in a beam of light. The breakthrough...
INSIDER: Imaging
Shortwave Infrared (SWIR) QVGA Camera
Attollo Engineering (Camarillo, CA) has introduced a quarter-VGA format camera (320 x 256 resolution), based on indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) shortwave infrared technology. The miniature...
INSIDER: Unmanned Systems
Self-flying drones and autonomous taxis that can safely operate in fog may sound futuristic, but new research at Sandia National Laboratories’ fog facility is bringing the future...
Question of the Week: Imaging
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.
Special Reports: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Space Technology - January 2022
Read about the most powerful telescope ever launched into space, the NASA rocket that will carry humans back to the moon, the nanosatellites that are dramatically reducing the cost of space science, and much more...Products: Communications
The PM-50 graphical panel meter is available as a 3.5" or 4.3" graphical touchscreen display.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Engineers have developed a sensor system and manufacturing process for smart contact lenses. The sensor system contains a photodetector for receiving optical information, a temperature sensor for...
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Biological insights of fruit fly eye movements could enhance robotics.
UpFront: Imaging
Private stations get NASA funding; a camera "sees the unseen," and more.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
Applications include avionics, data storage, process control, reconfigurable manufacturing lines, and civil and structural engineering.
Products: Test & Measurement
Microwave measurement receivers, oscilloscopes, longwave infrared cameras, and more.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Better detection of microwave radiation will enable improved thermal imaging, electronic warfare, radio communications, and radar.
Articles: Internet of Things
In the high-tech sector, there's been a shift from “just-in-time” to “just-in-case” inventory strategies.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Large machines can breathe in and out cooling blasts of water to keep their systems from overheating.
Articles: Test & Measurement
With the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), mankind’s understanding of the universe — and its origins — will increase exponentially.
Products: Test & Measurement
Fiber laser machinery, polishing pitch, beam collimators, and more.
Briefs: Aerospace
NASA's NEID tool delivered its first batch of data on the nearest and best-studied star, our Sun.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The "AOM" performs complex observations with ten observation modes and 175 strategies.
Top Stories
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INSIDER: Unmanned Systems
World’s Smallest Programmable, Autonomous Robots
Blog: Robotics, Automation & Control
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INSIDER: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Webcasts
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