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Laser Safety in an Increasingly Coherent World
Lasers are a critical tool in modern society. They can be found cutting steel, being used to study biological samples or delivering the internet to millions of homes among countless other applications. With so many lasers around us every day, it might be a good time to review some laser safety basics.
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Wearable Tech Trend Predictions for 2018
From smart cities to Blockchain, 2018 is going to be a huge year for technology. Wearable tech is no exception.
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Powering IoT's Next Generation
Semiconductor supplier Semtech is leveraging its experience in the IoT space to help shape the next generation of low-power, long-range wireless devices.
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Researchers Find Shoppers Are Less Likely to Press Buy if They are Browsing on Their Phones
Researchers have found that shoppers are less likely to go through with a purchase when they are browsing on their phones and tablets.
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Camera Solution for Indoor and Outdoor Surveillance to be Presented at CES 2018
OmniVision Technologies Inc. has teamed up with Vatics Inc. to release a high-performance near-infrared (NIR) IP camera solution for five megapixel indoor and outdoor surveillance systems.
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Human-like Virtual Assistants May Deter People from Seeking Help on Achievement Tasks
Research conducted suggests that human-like virtual assistants may actually deter some people from seeking help from humans on tasks that are supposed to measure achievement.
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New Battery has 4 Lithium Ions, 3 Times the Number of Today’s Batteries
Wolverton teamed up with Argonne National Laboratory. Wolverton’s group at Northwestern University developed rechargeable lithium ions than the common lithium-cobalt-oxide battery that can cycle more lithium ions than the common lithium-cobalt-oxide counterpart.
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Researchers Develop Method to Clean Nanotubes as Much as Possible
A research team has figured out how to get nanotubes clean and discovered why the electrical properties of nanotubes have been so difficult to measure.
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An Exoskeleton Engineered for Nano-electronics
A new platform has been engineered for the construction of micron sized origami machines that change shape in fractions of a second in response to environmental stimuli.
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MyKronoz Announces Availability of ZeTime Petite Hybrid Smartwatch at CES 2018
The hybrid device with mechanical hands over a color touchscreen offers the classic design of a Swiss timepiece with the advanced features of a smartwatch.
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Wearable Sensors for Plants Measure Water Use
Iowa State University plant scientists Patrick Schnable has described how he measured the time it takes for two kinds of corn plants to move water from their roots to low leaves and then the upper leaves.
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Researchers Create a Red Flare that is Human and Environmentally Friendly
Researchers at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany have developed an environmentally friendly red light flare that is popular in fireworks displays and among soldiers who use them in training and battlefield operations as signaling devices.
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Chassis Plans Announces Military Grade 2U Rackmount Bi-fold LCD Systems
The double 24-inch rugged bi-fold - MIL-STD 810G - LCD Monitor system is designed for a range of mission critical military, industrial and commercial applications.
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Laser Evaporation Could Create Better Solar Cells
Materials scientists from Duke University have developed a new method to create hybrid thin-film materials that have been difficult or impossible to make. This technique could be the gateway to new generators of solar cells, light-emitting diodes and photodetectors.
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WayRay to Present Holographic AR Navigation System with SDK Availability at CES 2018
WayRay, a Swiss developer of holographic augmented reality (AR) navigation systems for cars, will demonstrate its AR solutions at CES 2018.
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3M to Demo Medical Adhesive Selector Tool at CES 2018
3M's FindMyAdhesive interactive online tool is designed to make medical adhesive selection simple for engineers by asking a series of project-specific questions.
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Researchers Tweak Quantum Dots to Strengthen Double-Pane Solar Windows
With two types of “designer” quantum dots, researchers are creating double-pane solar windows that generate electricity with greater efficiency and create shading and insulation for good measure. It is all possible because of a new window architecture that utilizes two different layers of low-cost quantum dots tuned to absorb different parts of the solar spectrum.
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Researchers Aim to Standardize Perovskite Solar Cell Aging Measurements
Current research efforts on perovskite are continuously trying to improve perovskite stability. But the community is restricted by the fact that there are no general standards by which scientists can measure the stability of perovskite solar cells.
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ESA to Launch Butane-Powered Satellite
The agency will test the ability of a miniature satellite, assembled from six standard 10 cm CubeSat units, to change orbit.
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Single Metalens Can Focus All Colors of the Rainbow in One Area
A team of researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has developed the first single lens that can focus the entire visible spectrum of light—including white light—in the same spot and in high resolution.
