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- MEMS
- MicroElectroMechanical Systems Tiny mechanical devices that are built onto semiconductor chips and are measured in micrometers. In the research labs since the 1980s, MEMS devices began to materialize...
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- Always-On or Always-In
- When I first started writing about the World of Always-On, almost five years ago, I envisioned sensors worn on clothing which would interact with wireless networks to monitor health in real-time. As the field evolved Always-On has become Always-In. A Body Computing Conference in October saw industry...
- Tags: Sensor, Health Care, MEMS, Wireless Network, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-12-03
- A wireless power transmission plastic sheet
- Several companies have started to sell power pads that can charge your cellphone when you put it on the pads surface. But these silicon-based pads are expensive -- and relatively specialized. Now, Japanese researchers have built a plastic sheet which could power all the devices placed close to it. So...
- Tags: Wireless &, Telecom, Engineering &, Innovation, Energy &, Environment, Computers &, Internet
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- Cornell researchers develop projector in your pocket
- Coming soon to a cellphone near you ... the latest Hollywood blockbuster on HDTV. MIT Technology Review reports that researchers at Cornell University have developed a laser technology that could lead to the ability to project high-definition television images from devices the size of cell phones. The new technology...
- Tags: Cornell University, mirror, MEMS
- Blog posts 2006-09-06
- Beyond Corporate Walls: Symbol Mesh Networks
- There has been plenty of publicity recently about the use of MEMS in a laser scanner. The manufacturer of a MEMS based scan engine is promoting the idea that simply replacing a single component of an otherwise conventional laser scanner, somehow results in significant performance improvements. This claim ignores the...
- Tags: Mesh Networking, Network, MEMS, Laser, Wall, Laser Scanner, Scanners, Hardware, Peripherals
- White papers 2006-04-01
- 2 bln microphones sold worldwide in 2005, 5% of them MEMS
- The MEMS silicon microphone market has become a hotbed of activity, spurred by record-breaking growth in consumer electronics products such as hearing aids, cellular phones, cordless phones, headsets, and headphones, according to The Information Network. The market is geared to reach 5% of the nearly 2 bln microphones sold worldwide...
- Tags: microphone
- Blog posts 2005-12-07
- MEMS to grow at 19.87% a year
- Buoyed by a strong, eventful 2004, the MicroElectroMechanical Systems MEMS market will grow over the next few years in terms of unit shipments at a Compound Annual Growth Rate CAGR of 19.87% to nearly 6 bln units in 2009, reports In-Stat. Funding for MEMS companies increased by 43.9% in 2004...
- Tags: MEMS
- Blog posts 2005-09-09
- 5% of all microphones sold in 2005 will be MEMS microphones
- The MEMS microphone market is geared to reach 5% of the nearly 2 bln microphones sold worldwide in 2005 and grow to 15% of the nearly 3 bln microphones sold in 2008, a compounded growth rate of 240%. A similar growth rate in the speaker sector will propel the MEMs...
- Tags: MEMS, microphone
- Blog posts 2005-06-06
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- A robotic brain-computer interface
- California Institute of Technology Caltech engineers have developed a robotic device able to act as a brain-computer interface. This is the 'first robotic approach to establishing an interface between computers and the brain by positioning electrodes in neural tissue.' According to the researchers, their approach 'could enhance the performance and...
- Tags: Algorithm, Electrode, California Institute Of Technology, Positioning, Telecom & Utilities, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- 100 GB memory chip coming in 2009
- Bytes, not bits. Oh, and it's fast, too. Nanochip, a Silicon Valley-based fabless semiconductor firm, just received $14 million in funding to complete work on a 100 GB storage chip. Intel Capital, who should know something about chips, is an investor. The goal: ". . . allow Nanochip to...
- Tags: Memory Chip, Chip, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-01-22
- Too much glare when you look at your cameraphone photos? Could be a thing of the past
- Yesterday at CES, chip-maker Qualcomm's subsidiary Qualcomm MEMS Technologies, Inc. made a series of announcements that IMHO will do no less than revolutionize image quality factors on mobile devices. At first blush, the announcement of Qualcomm MEMS teaming up with communications device manufacturer Foxlink Group for a...
- Tags: Camera Phone, Qualcomm Inc., Mobile Device, Photograph, Nothing, Camera Phones, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-01-08
- Detecting individual cancer cells with silicon
- Take a silicon MEMS device as large as a business card. (For more on MEMS technology click here.) Coat it with tens of thousands of microposts, and coat the posts with antibodies which detect a molecule only found on cancer cells. Then run blood...
- Tags: Silicon, Blood, Cell, Cancer Cell, Semiconductors, Hardware, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-12-20
- Nano's new frontier, green tech
- At the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference in Davis, Calif., panel moderator David Scott Lewis, SVP of Zytech Solar leads a discussion with executives on nano and MEMS technologies that are being developed in next-generation green practices. The panelists are Pankaj Dhingra, CEO at Nanostellar; Deepak Srivastava, CTO at Nanoexa; and Vincent...
- Tags: Green Technology, Nano, Emerging Technologies, Green
- Videos 2007-09-19
- Autonomous insect cyborg sentinels
- In a very brief article, AZoNano reports that nanotechnology is turning insects into flying cyborgs. Researchers from Cornell University have implanted 'microfluidic devices in insects before they hatch into fully grown flying creatures.' Of course, when they grow, these insects still carry the sensors. And if this works, they'll be...
- Tags: Science &, Nature, Robotics, Nanotechnology, Engineering &, Innovation, Defense &, Security
- Blog posts 2007-06-22
- DARPA plans to turn moths into cyberspies
- In a project that seems like it was hatched from the brain of a science fiction writer, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA is growing computer chips around insects for use in surveillance, reports The Times.DARPA is implanting computer chips in moths while still in the pupa stage. The...
- Tags: Defense
- Blog posts 2007-05-30
- Blue crab nanosensor to fight terrorism
- A substance found in crab shells called chitosan has very useful properties. For example, it has been used in bandages to stop bleeding. But now, researchers at the University of Maryland have used the chitosan from blue crabs living in Chesapeake Bay as a component of a nanoscale sensor system...
- Tags: University of Maryland, substance
- Blog posts 2006-07-30
- Flying robots made from cellophane?
- Researchers have discovered that ordinary cellulose is a piezoelectric and smart material that can flap when exposed to an electric field. ScienceNOW reports that electricity can give life to cellophane. When you put a very thin layer of gold on each side of cellophane, and that you apply electric current...
- Tags: paper, EAPap Actuator
- Blog posts 2006-07-02
- Image stabilization for cameraphones
- According to ExtremeTech, a startup company named InvenSense has developed a MEMS gyroscope for cameraphones. This gyroscope will be integrated in new cellphones before the end of the year. These small dual-axis angular rate sensors (3.5mm x 3.5mm today and smaller soon) can provide a better image stabilization than current...
- Tags: InvenSense, gyroscope, camera phone
- Blog posts 2006-05-27
- Optical-Switch Benes Architecture Based on 2-D MEMS
- This paper presents a novel implementation scheme of the Benes network based on the 2-D MEMS technology. A recursive design procedure is proposed defining the switch geometry for any optical port-count. An analytical approach is adopted to provide a scalability evaluation of the architecture based upon basic parameters such as...
- Tags: 2D, Scalability, IEEE, Design Procedure
- White papers 2006-05-26
- 'Resistance is flea-tile'
- Under the theory that you can't kill a bug with an IED, DARPA, the military's research arm, is looking to create "insect cyborgs," reports UPI. The Pentagon is seeking applications from researchers to help them develop technology that can be implanted into living insects to control their...
- Tags: DARPA
- Blog posts 2006-03-15
- Robots with square wheels?
- About eighteen months ago, I told you about a tricycle with square wheels which needed a specially designed road. But now, Distributed Robotics, a company from Troy, N.Y., is developing robots with square wheels which don't need specific roads. These new 'cars' propel themselves on flat surfaces by taking advantage...
- Tags: Global Composites Inc.
- Blog posts 2005-12-05
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