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  • OBD II Scanner, iWave's Car Connected Device for Automotive Industry

    iwavesys
    iwavesys
    Vehicletelematics has revolutionized the automotive industry offering a completely new perspective by providing OBD II Scanner in not only how we commute but also in ways we interact with our vehicles. Underpinning this revolution is the development ...
    • 14 Dec 2018
  • tinyCurrent low Current Measurement Shunt and Amplifier

    vanthome
    vanthome
     A low cost yet professional low current measurement shunt and amplifier combination to overcome the issue of high burden voltage as seen with multimeters and to enable low current measurement by using voltage measurement devices such as oscillo...
    • 25 Oct 2018
  • Prieto Teams Up with Intel to Advance a Rechargeable 3D Solid-state Battery

    GardenState
    GardenState
    Prieto Battery and Intel have announced a business collaboration to accelerate the introduction of Prieto’s 3D solid-state battery cell into the marketplace. Prieto, a spinoff company out of Colorado State University, has agreed to complete a series ...
    • 9 Nov 2015
  • The Next Big Thing in Police Technology: PredPol, the Predictive Policing Software

    Catwell
    Catwell
    PredPol maps this red box onto areas where heightened crime is predicted to occur. Also.. it's their logo. (via Predpol) With budget cuts and shortages of officers, police departments are feeling the pressure to become smarter about preventing c...
    • 3 Nov 2015
  • French League 1 Soccer Team uses Ingestible, Wireless Pill to Monitor Player Body Temperature During Matches

    GardenState
    GardenState
    BodyCap, a French start-up company that specializes in miniaturized wireless monitoring devices today announced it has tested its e-Celsius Performance connected pill for temperature monitoring on ten FC Nantes soccer platers during two French League...
    • 2 Nov 2015
  • Using Silicon Anodes in Li-Ion Batteries Could Boost Energy Density by 40-60 percent

    GardenState
    GardenState
    Schematic of electrode process design: (a) Components mixing under ultrasonic irradiation, (b) an optical image of the as-fabricated electrode made of SiNP, SG and PAN, (c) the electrode after SHT, (d) Schematic of the atomic scale structure of the e...
    • 28 Oct 2015
  • “Morphing” Escape Systems Being Studied for Hypersonic Transport Aircraft

    GardenState
    GardenState
     Future commercial hypersonic flight will require an orbiter stage which, after main engine cut-off, will enter a high-speed gliding flight phase and will be capable of attaining altitudes of 80 km and Mach numbers beyond Mach 20. This vehicle w...
    • 26 Oct 2015
  • Boeing, Lockheed join Military Research Program to Develop Faster, More Energy Efficient Undersea Vehicle

    GardenState
    GardenState
    Artist's impression of "Blue Wolf" The range of underwater vehicles is limited by the amount of energy available for propulsion and the power required for a given underwater speed. Underwater propulsive power varies roughly with the cube of spee...
    • 22 Oct 2015
  • Zero-emission, Four Passenger Fuel Cell Aircraft is Scheduled to Fly in 2016

    GardenState
    GardenState
    By announcing its HY4 four-seater aircraft, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) is taking a big step towards making zero-emission commercial flying a reality.  Powered solely by a hydrogen fuel cell batte...
    • 19 Oct 2015
  • Sixth-Generation Eye Tracking Platform Targets Consumer Devices, VR

    GardenState
    GardenState
    Powered by the Tobii EyeChip, an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) developed specifically for eye tracking, the new Tobii IS4 eye tracking module provides OEMs and integrators with a lightweight platform featuring near-infrared sensors, ...
    • 18 Oct 2015
  • Laser Weapons Development is Heating Up

    GardenState
    GardenState
     In creating a laser weapon for military use the biggest challenges for researchers are: 1) creating a laser that can reach high enough power to partially destroy or disable a target; 2) tracking numerous target objects simultaneously and 3) pro...
    • 12 Oct 2015
  • Smart Munitions Technology Takes a Step Toward Naval Use

    GardenState
    GardenState
    Raytheon has successfully fired its new Excalibur N5 projectile during a recent live guided flight test at Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz.  It was fired from a 5-inch naval gun during testing (shown, top photo). Excalibur N5 (bottom photo) is a 5-inc...
    • 7 Oct 2015
  • IBM‘s Nanotube Contact Solution Could Enable 1.8nm Devices

    GardenState
    GardenState
    Silicon transistors have been made smaller year after year, but they are approaching a point of physical limitation. Continuing to shrink the size of the transistor – including the channels and contacts – without compromising performance has become a...
    • 5 Oct 2015
  • NASA Says Liquid, Flowing Water Exists Today on Mars

    GardenState
    GardenState
    Dark, narrow streaks on Martian slopes such as these at Hale Crater are believed to be formed by seasonal flow of water.  The streaks are roughly the length of a football field. Photo courtesy of: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona.Scientists rep...
    • 28 Sep 2015
  • Look and Shoot: The F-35 Gen III Helmet-Mounted Display System

    GardenState
    GardenState
     If you wait around long enough sometimes reality gets closer to science fiction. In the 1982 film “Firefox” Clint Eastwood plays an American pilot assigned to steal a highly advanced Soviet fighter aircraft which, among other things, uses a hel...
    • 24 Sep 2015
  • Air Force Generals Expect Airborne Laser Weapon Demos by the End of the Decade

    GardenState
    GardenState
    C-130 Hercules carrying a tactical laser When three top Air Force officers speaking separately at the same conference all say they expect the service to demonstrate airborne laser weapons by the end of this decade it wouldn’t be wise to bet against ...
    • 21 Sep 2015
  • DARPA Initiative Seeks Affordable Wafer-scale Infrared Sensors and Cameras

    GardenState
    GardenState
    The low cost of digital imaging devices has allowed them to become popular consumer products.  This low cost is made possible by leveraging a mature processing infrastructure and the ability to fabricate complete focal plane arrays (FPAs) at the...
    • 18 Sep 2015
  • Enormous Mars Underground Ice Deposit Discovered

    GardenState
    GardenState
    Combining data obtained from two powerful instruments aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), researchers at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (LPL) determined why the crater shown above is terraced — not bow...
    • 13 Sep 2015
  • World Land Speed Record Challenger to Make Public Debut in Two Weeks

    GardenState
    GardenState
    The Bloodhound SSC land speed record racing car will make its world debut at East Wintergarden, Canary Wharf, London on Thursday, 24 September before going on public display on Friday and Saturday the 25th and 26th of September from 9am to 5pm.Bloodh...
    • 11 Sep 2015
  • China Targeting 70% IC Self-sufficiency by 2025

    GardenState
    GardenState
    Photo source: Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC), Shanghai China China has been dominating global economic news for the past couple of weeks as its slowing economy caused jittery investors to sell stocks, resulting in major l...
    • 28 Aug 2015
  • Tiny Cooling System Enables Less Expensive Satellite Payloads, More Compact Sensors

    GardenState
    GardenState
     Highly sophisticated electronics like infrared instruments and other sensors need to be cooled to precisely detect what they're designed to capture, even to temperatures as low as -320 F (-195 C). The High Power Microcryocooler introduced t...
    • 26 Aug 2015
  • NASA Seeks Help Finding a Human Landing Site on Mars

    GardenState
    GardenState
     The Martian is an upcoming science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott and based on the 2011 novel of the same name by Andy Weir. The premise is that during a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm...
    • 23 Aug 2015
  • NASA is Building Micro-Satellites to Improve Hurricane Intensity Forecasts

    GardenState
    GardenState
    The science of tracking and predicting the path of Hurricanes has improved in accuracy over the years but there has been little improvement in the accuracy of determining how intense the storms are going to be. Now, ten years after Hurricane Katrina ...
    • 20 Aug 2015
  • Suntory is Sending Whisky to Mature aboard the International Space Station

    GardenState
    GardenState
    While examining the fluid dynamics behind whisky “mellowing” would appear to be the perfect dissertation topic for a high-living doctoral student, Japanese distillery Suntory is serious about studying the impact of microgravity on its signature produ...
    • 18 Aug 2015
  • DARPA Looking to Develop Next-Generation Vacuum Tube Electronics

    GardenState
    GardenState
    Travelling wave tubes (TWT) amplify signals by exchanging kinetic energy in the electron beam (shown as a blue line) with electromagnetic energy in the signal. This figure represents a cutaway view of a TWT with all of the critical components: electr...
    • 14 Aug 2015
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