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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

PMC’s Single-Chip Processor Supports 10G, 40G and 100G Speeds for OTN Transport

PMC®, the semiconductor innovator transforming networks that connect, move and store big data, announced today the introduction of PM5440 DIGI 120G, the industry’s only single-chip OTN processor supporting 10G, 40G and 100G speeds for OTN transport, aggregation and switched deployments.

21 Mar 2013

US Air Force Successfully Launched Lockheed Martin-Built Infrared Surveillance Satellite

The U.S. Air Force’s second Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO-2) spacecraft, built by Lockheed Martin, was successfully launched today at 5:21 p.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.

20 Mar 2013

Olympus Expands Scope of Most Advanced IX83 Inverted Microscope Frame

The scan^R 2.4 high content screening station is the latest addition to the growing collection of microscopy systems based upon the new IX3 high-end inverted microscope frame. Thanks to its unique “open source” design concept, the IX3 is offering a completely modular and flexible approach to live cell imaging.

20 Mar 2013

NASA's Aqua Satellite Captures Infrared Image of Cyclone Tim

Infrared satellite imagery tells the temperature of the cloud tops within a tropical cyclone as well as the sea surface temperatures around the storms. A recent infrared image from NASA's Aqua satellite showed very little strength in the remnants of ex-cyclone Tim offshore from southeastern Queensland.

20 Mar 2013

NeoPhotonics Introduces micro-Integrated Tunable Laser Assembly Technology for High Speed Communications Networks

NeoPhotonics Corporation, a leading designer and manufacturer of photonic integrated circuit, or PIC, based modules and subsystems for bandwidth-intensive, high speed communications networks, today announced a small form factor, narrow-linewidth, micro-Integrated Tunable Laser Assembly (micro-ITLA) technology.

20 Mar 2013

JDSU to Highlight Tunable SFP+ Transceiver at OFC/NFOEC

JDSU today announced that it will highlight solutions from its leading optical communications and communications test and measurement portfolios at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference/National Fiber Optics Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC) at the Anaheim Convention Center from March 19-21, 2013.

20 Mar 2013