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Vuzix to Showcase M100 Smart Glasses at 2013 ShowStoppers Event

Vuzix Corporation's M100 Smart Glasses will be making their European debut during the showstoppers media event on Sunday, February 24th. Mobile industry participants and gadgeteers can test out the world's first smart 'hands free' display and communications system for on the go data access, paired to their smartphone and connected to the Internet.

22 Feb 2013

CEA-Leti to Coordinate Photonic Libraries and Technology for Manufacturing Project

CEA-Leti today announced that it will coordinate a four-year project aimed at building a European-based supply chain in silicon photonics and speeding industrialization of the technology.

21 Feb 2013

Researchers Explore Atomic-Scale Transformations in Photosynthesis Using Ultrabright X-Ray Laser

Opening a new window on the way plants generate the oxygen we breathe, researchers used an X-ray laser at the Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to simultaneously look at the structure and chemical behavior of a natural catalyst involved in photosynthesis for the first time.

16 Feb 2013

TAG Optics Receives Prism Award for Ultra High-Speed Variable Focus Device

TAG Optics Inc. is pleased to announce that its ultra high-speed variable focus device, the TAG Lens 2.0, has been selected as this year's Prism Award winner in the category of Optics and Optical Components. This prestigious international industry award is presented each year by SPIE (the International Society for Optics and Photonics) and Photonics Media to the best new innovations marketed in the preceding year as judged by a large panel of industry experts and key opinion leaders.

14 Feb 2013

Cranfield University Manufactures Lenses for the E-ELT (European Extremely Large Telescope)

Cranfield University has this week completed the grinding of mirror segments to be used for the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) – the largest optical telescope in the world.

From Cranfield University 14 Feb 2013

New Technique Holds Potential to Revolutionize Medical Imaging Field

Researchers from the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO), in collaboration with the CSIC and Macquarie University in Australia, have developed a new technique, similar to the MRI but with a much higher resolution and sensitivity, which has the ability to scan individual cells. In an article published in Nature Nanotech, and highlighted by Nature, ICFO Prof. Romain Quidant explains how this was accomplished using artificial atoms, diamond nanoparticles doped with nitrogen impurity, to probe very weak magnetic fields such as those generated in some biological molecules.

13 Feb 2013

Digital Touch-Table Brings Innovative Optical Devices and their Images to Life

A digital touch-table that brings the experience of pre-cinema and early filmmaking back to cinema audiences and museum visitors has been developed by researchers at the University of Bristol and UWE Bristol, working in partnership with Aerian Studios.

12 Feb 2013

Vuzix Introduces New Gen Digital See-Through Augmented Reality Eyewear

Vuzix Corporation today announced that it is now shipping the next generation of its award winning digital see-through Augmented Reality eyewear, the Wrap 1200AR. This new gen product retains the familiar sunglass style look, now with a wider field of view, adjustable eye-separation and other enhanced features not previously available in digital see-through AR eyewear.

12 Feb 2013

Virtual Geomatics Introduces Stand-Alone LiDAR Point Cloud Visualizing Tool

Virtual Geomatics' is pleased to announce its PanoLiDAR™ Viewer; a stand-alone tool, designed to visualize the LiDAR point cloud along with the 360 degree panoramic images collected by laser scanning systems.

12 Feb 2013

Intevac Receives Northrop Grumman Order for LIVAR Digital Imaging Cameras

Intevac Photonics, a subsidiary of Intevac, Inc. today announced the receipt of two production orders during the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2012, for its LIVAR® (Laser Illuminated Viewing and Ranging) digital cameras from Northrop Grumman Corporation.

11 Feb 2013