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D-Link Launches Robust HD 720p PoE Day/Night Network Camera

D-Link today introduced the HD PoE Day/Night Network Camera (DCS-3511). The robust IP Camera employs a traditional "box camera" form factor, but in a compact package. The new DCS-3511 is perfect for applications where a strong surveillance presence is required, such as in banks behind teller counters or at gas stations visibly capturing activity at the pumps.

26 Oct 2015

COBAN Launches ECHO Rugged and Compact Body-Worn Cameras

COBAN Technologies an industry leader in body-worn and in-car video solutions for law enforcement, has introduced the ECHO line of rugged and compact body-worn cameras.

26 Oct 2015

New Software Creates 3-D Map of the Brain

The animal brain is so complex, it would take a supercomputer and vast amounts of data to create a detailed 3-D model of the billions of neurons that power it.

26 Oct 2015

Entries Invited for SPIE Startup Challenge 2016

New photonics entrepreneurs have through 20 November to enter the SPIE Startup Challenge 2016, an opportunity to pitch their light-based technology products to a team of business development experts and venture capitalists. The annual competition is held during SPIE Photonics West at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, running 15-17 February and hosted by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics.

23 Oct 2015

PhotoPlus Expo 2015: Canon to Showcase Latest Imaging Products

Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, will be showcasing its latest in high-quality imaging products for photographers of all skill levels in addition to hosting educational seminars and professional photographer print signings at PhotoPlus Expo 2015 in the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City, October, 22 – 24, 2015, in booth #121.

23 Oct 2015

NEC Display Introduces MultiSync Wide-Screen Desktop Monitor with LED Backlighting

NEC Display Solutions of America, a leading provider of commercial LCD display and projector solutions, today announced the MultiSync® E203Wi-BK wide-screen desktop monitor with LED backlighting. This feature-rich display gives corporate and small-to-medium-sized business users a key tool to enhance productivity.

23 Oct 2015

Light Corporation Introduces Economically Priced Under-Bin LED Light

Light Corporation, a leader in high-tech lighting products for office and industrial environments, has launched CLIQUE, the newest and most economically priced linear LED (light-emitting diode) fixture in the company’s under-bin lighting family.

22 Oct 2015

Astronomers Compile Largest Astronomical Image

Astronomers at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum have compiled the largest astronomical image to date. The picture of the Milky Way contains 46 billion pixels. In order to view it, researchers headed by Prof Dr Rolf Chini from the Chair of Astrophysics have provided an online tool. The image contains data gathered in astronomical observations over a period of five years.

22 Oct 2015

New Movie Shows Evolution of Stellar Spots on a Star

Astronomers from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP), present for the first time a movie that shows the evolution of stellar spots on a star other than our Sun.

22 Oct 2015

New Way to Display Full-Color Images

A team of researchers at Disney Research and Dartmouth College has developed a new way to display full-color images using only two black patterns printed on transparencies affixed to two sides of a prism.

22 Oct 2015

Berkeley Lab Part of Consortium to Build World's First Total-Body PET Scanner

Scientists from the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have set out to help build the world's first total-body positron emission tomography (PET) scanner, a medical imaging device that could change the way cancers and other diseases are diagnosed and treated.

22 Oct 2015

Carestream Introduces New Lower-Priced Portable Mobile X-Ray Imaging System

Carestream unveiled a new lower-priced mobile X-ray imaging system that can be purchased as a CR system and easily upgraded to wireless DR technology to gain faster image access and automated features.

22 Oct 2015

Laser Components IR Reflecting Mirrors are too Hot to Handle

By adding a transparent conducting oxide layer to the rear surface of a standard hot mirror, the reflected wavelength range can be extended far into the infrared region to give superior results.

From Laser Components (UK) Ltd. 22 Oct 2015

LandMark Optoelectronics expands capacity with AIXTRON technology

Taiwanese epitaxial wafer supplier placed repeat order for AIX 2800G4-TM System

22 Oct 2015

Resolve Optics Announce Focus Corrected SWIR Lenses

Resolve Optics announces focus corrected SWIR lenses that benefit from a novel design that maintains maximum performance throughout the Short Wavelength Infrared spectral range (900 – 1700 nm) without the need for refocusing.

22 Oct 2015