Most of us haven’t given much thought to whether, or how, fish and other sea creatures see in the depths of dark, murky ocean water. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have thought about that and have combined the features of an African fish and a lobster to create [...]
Manufacturers understand they can save money on the lens manufacture process if they can utilize commercial off the shelf (COTS) products. In many areas of military design and government agencies, this COTS model is being adopted because it is a cost saving measure. The key factor to making this [...]
More and more biometric systems are being used for security in public places, buildings such as airports, or security-related areas like data centers. The greater the proliferation of such systems, the greater the probability of methods designed to circumvent or outwit them. This, in turn, requires the development of [...]
Researchers in the UK have been working on a tracking system that is based on eye-safe lasers to enable unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), aircraft and satellites to transmit data to ground stations quickly, security and efficiently. The concept has been tested successfully in-flight. The system, which aims a laser [...]
How is the Army in the United States able to protect its citizens? This was a question posed by lawmakers when questioning how close the Army is to “developing offensive and defensive directed-energy weapons”. An Army spokesperson said they believe they are very close and are looking at 2023 [...]
Physicians from the department of Cardiac Surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School have developed prototypes of cardioports to be used during a beating heart, image guided intra cardiac surgery for pediatric patients. The successful deployment of this device will rely in minimizing the size of the [...]
Researchers have developed a vision guided robotic inspection system that assists in manufacturing processes by providing automated inspection and computer-aided decision making. The system integrates an R12 articulated robot arm and an industrial camera that operates with software to calculate algorithms that work together to increase the quality of [...]
It’s not the size that matters in lenses that were created by engineers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The first-ever flexible Fresnel zone plate microlenses offer a wide field of view. The development of these lenses has the potential to allow items from security cameras to surgical scopes to [...]
Sports has long been a proving ground and frontier for more accurate and faster technology. High-priced athletes and the teams they play for need results quickly to get the superstars back onto the playing field. The same is also true for high school and college athletes to some extent. [...]
While mammograms are widely used to detect breast cancer, the use of MRI machines can now be used to further understand the effects of high saturated fatty acids in breast tissue in post-menopausal women. Women at high risk of breast cancer often have routine MRI scans to try to [...]