NASA's rover Curiosity is expected to touch down on Mars in August 2012. Preceding the mission by a few months, its science measurements will begin much closer to Earth.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) awarded API's subsidiary, Picometrix, LLC a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract for $100,000 over six months. The company will exhibit the feasibility of integrating a hand-held time-domain terahertz (TD-THz) inspection wand combined with special sensor technologies to create a multi-sensor based approach for detection of concealed threats.
SAW Instruments has released a novel sam5 bio-sensing device for studying live, biomolecular bonding and its kinetics.
Mechanical force plays a major role in regulating various biological processes, ranging from replication of genes to strengthening the bones.
Lockheed Martin, an international security firm, has entered into a $65 million deal with the US Army to carry out advancement of the Modernized Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensor (M-TADS/PNVS) system for the Apache helicopter.
Defentect Group, a manufacturer and supplier of rapid smart messaging services and applications, proclaimed that the company has assigned Arkfeld Security Technologies, as an authorized integrator, to market and integrate Defentect’s Global Threat Awareness system employing its Immediate Intelligent Messaging software base.
Murata has developed two ultra-small energy-harvesting systems for supplying power to sensing devices and wire-free elements by eliminating the necessity of an exterior electricity provision.
RAE Systems launches a new compact gas monitor called the QRae Plus Four Gas Confined Space Gas Detector, featuring up to four plug-in intelligent sensing units, for the detection of Oxygen, Hydrogen Sulfide, Combustibles and Carbon Monoxide.
Barco has released a novel DPM-3 robust computer, along with its MR sequence recorders for audio as well as video recording at the Association of the U.S. Army’s (AUSA) annual conference in Washington.
Telephonic calls can be made using cell phones by virtue of the signals that have been transmitted wirelessly between huge base stations.
A Tel Aviv University research team has developed a powerful electronic sensor to detect different types of explosives. Existing methods used for the detection of explosives, be it champion sniffer dogs or any other electronic devices, are high cost, have lengthy decoding time, are cumbersome and require an expert for analysis. "There is a need for a small, inexpensive, handheld instrument capable of detecting explosives quickly, reliably and efficiently," said lead researcher Fernando Patolsky of Tel Aviv University.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
11 Nov 2010
OmniVision has unveiled its brand new camera sensor. The new design is touted to be the most sophisticated image quality found in smartphones. It is however believed that the new sensor could find a perfect home within the next generation iPhone.
American and Turkish scientists are developing various sensing devices that can be integrated into the body to gather information regarding any sort of fracture healing.
ITT proclaimed that its Global Water Instrumentation, a global supplier of water sensing solution and a unit of the recently established ITT Analytics, is releasing two innovative water quality sensing devices called the WQ-Cond Conductivity Sensor, and the WQ-FDO Optical Dissolved Oxygen Sensor.
CyberOptics Semiconductor’s director of Sales and Marketing, Mark Hannaford will be demonstrating the company’s WaferSense series solutions, encompassing its wire-free range of monitoring devices for gapping, leveling and guiding in semiconductor instruments, at the ISMI Manufacturing Week conducted in Austin, Texas.