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Metascreen Invisibility Cloak Holds Potential to Advance Biomedical and Optical Instrumentation

Up until now, the invisibility cloaks put forward by scientists have been fairly bulky contraptions – an obvious flaw for those interested in Harry Potter-style applications.

26 Mar 2013

Intense Lighting’s ORBIS LED Track Luminaire Wins NGL Awards

Intense Lighting, Inc. a leader in providing high quality, specification grade lighting solutions, proudly announces that it is a 2013 recognized winner in the Next Generation Luminaire (NGL) Solid-State Lighting Design Competition.

25 Mar 2013

Photodynamic Therapy Session Part of 33rd American Society for Laser Medicine & Surgery Conference

Laser 2013 will offer a session on Photodynamic Therapy, Friday, April 5, as part of the 33rd Annual Conference of the American Society for Laser Medicine & Surgery, Inc. (ASLMS), April 3-7, 2013, Boston, MA.

25 Mar 2013

Nano Labs’ LED Intelligent Illumination System for Greenhouses Granted Provisional Patent

Nano Labs Corp. is pleased to announce it has been issued a provisional patent number for the Company's "intelligent illumination system" for greenhouses, that works with commercial light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to reduce energy consumption and improve processes contributing to the growth of plant life in agricultural greenhouses.

25 Mar 2013

Larson Electronics Introduces IP67 Rated LED Light for Boating Applications

Larson Electronics announced the release of the LEDSM-1X30-C LED surface mount courtesy light for boating and other small form factor lighting applications. This crescent shaped LED light is IP67 rated, draws 30ma and illuminates small areas of 10 to 15 feet.

25 Mar 2013

New Low-Light Method Improves Microscopic Imaging of Single Molecules

UT Dallas researchers are developing a new low-light imaging method that could improve a number of scientific applications, including the microscopic imaging of molecules in cancer research

25 Mar 2013

MultiTouch Installs Fully Interactive, Unlimited Multi-Touch Display at QUT, Australia

MultiTouch Ltd., world leader in multi-touch systems, today announced the world's largest fully interactive, unlimited multi-touch installation with the biggest continuous array of touch displays at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Australia.

22 Mar 2013

LG to Launch Ultra-Short-Throw Projector Laser TV

LG Electronics is launching the LG Laser TV, an ultra-short-throw projector system which requires a mere 22 inches of clearance from the wall, in the United States next month.

22 Mar 2013

ChromaGen Lenses Help Improve Reading Speed in People with Dyslexia

Words that move from left to right or up and down, words that are blurry or come in and out of focus or words that appear to float on the page, seeing double words or double sentences, re-reading the same lines -- these are some of the reading difficulties that students at the Brighton School recently described.

22 Mar 2013

OSINO Specialty Lenses Compatible with Smart Phone Cameras

Smartphones are fast becoming one of the most popular cameras in the world. This is due in part to the image quality of their built-in camera and the wide array of photo software available.

22 Mar 2013

Researchers Demonstrate Pulse Tailoring on Large Krypton Fluoride Gas Laser

Researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory have successfully demonstrated pulse tailoring, producing a time varying focal spot size known as 'focal zooming' on the world's largest operating krypton fluoride (KrF) gas laser.

21 Mar 2013

Aurrion’s Breakthrough Lasers to be Demonstrated at Optical Fiber Communications Conference

Aurrion, Inc., a world leader in silicon photonics and pioneer in photonic heterogeneous integration, will present a recent breakthrough demonstration of lasers, for both telecom and datacom applications, monolithically integrated with silicon photonic circuits on March 21, 2013 as part of the post deadline session at the Optical Fiber Communications (OFC) Conference in Anaheim, California.

21 Mar 2013

NASA Practices Placement of Primary Mirror Segments on James Webb Space Telescope

NASA engineers and scientists have been making practice runs to ensure the placement of primary mirror segments on the James Webb Space Telescope go perfectly when the flight equipment is ready. NASA issued a video and photos showing the practice run in the giant clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

21 Mar 2013

Most Green Laser Pointers Not in Compliance with Safety Regulations

Using a low-cost apparatus designed to quickly and accurately measure the properties of handheld laser devices, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers tested 122 laser pointers and found that nearly 90 percent of green pointers and about 44 percent of red pointers tested were out of compliance with federal safety regulations. The NIST test apparatus was designed so that it can be replicated easily by other institutions.

21 Mar 2013

Spectral Imaging Solutions for Environmental Monitoring and Industrial Quality Control

In the near future, spectral imaging will provide new solutions for environmental monitoring and industrial quality control. The University of Eastern Finland and Olympus Corporation, a Japanese designer and manufacturer of imaging equipment, have joined forces and are now working on a collaborative research project.

21 Mar 2013