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ATEN Introduces New Compact LCD Console for Network Administrators

ATEN today announced a new compact, PS/2/USB console with an integrated 19" LCD monitor that features a dual rail 1U housing.

5 May 2010

New LED-Based Imaging Device for Night Vision

A University of Florida engineering researcher has crafted a nickel-sized imaging device that uses organic light-emitting diode technology similar to that found in cell phone or laptop screens for night vision.

5 May 2010

Olympus Partners with Siemens Healthcare to Develop Magnetically Guided Capsule Endoscope

Olympus Medical Systems Corporation and Siemens Healthcare are collaborating on the development of a technology for a magnetically guided capsule endoscope (MGCE) system.

4 May 2010

New HALOS-Based Adaptive Optics for Military Applications

Air Force Office of Scientific Research-supported holographic, adaptive, optics research may help transform software into computer-free, electronics for unmanned aerial vehicles, high energy lasers and free-space optical communications that will enable each to run faster and more efficiently than before.

4 May 2010

New Plastic-Based Technology Helps to Develop Smaller, Flexible Optical Communication Devices

It looks like a piece of gel that slips into the sole of your sneaker, but it's a new nano-based technology that can make computers and the Internet hundreds of times faster ¯ a communications technology "enabler" that may be in use only five or ten years in the future, currently being created by Dr. Koby Scheuer of Tel Aviv University's School of Electrical Engineering.

4 May 2010

QD Vision Receives Silver at Edison Awards for its Quantum Light Optic

QD Vision (www.qdvision.com), developer of Quantum Light™ nanotechnology-based products for solid state lighting and displays, took home the Silver at this year’s Edison Best New Products Awards for its Quantum Light™ optic in the Energy and Sustainability awards category.

4 May 2010

New Treatment for War Injuries Using Light-Activated Technology

Airmen's traumatic battlefield injuries may be more effectively treated by using a new light-activated technology developed as a result of research managed by Air Force Office of Scientific Research and supported by funds from the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

4 May 2010

LightLab to Exhibit its Optical Intravascular Imaging System at SCAI Meeting in San Diego

LightLab Imaging, Inc., the pioneer in development and world leader in sales of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) systems for vascular and other imaging applications, will exhibit at the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) meeting in San Diego, CA May 5 to 8, in booth 28.

3 May 2010

Boston Scientific to Present Study Results on its Endoscopy Products at DDW Event

Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) today announced that multiple clinical abstracts examining the diagnostic and therapeutic utility of its SpyGlass® Direct Visualization System, Radial Jaw® 4 Biopsy Forceps and WallFlex® Duodenal Stent will be presented at Digestive Disease Week® (DDW®), May 1 – 5 in New Orleans.

3 May 2010

Nuclear Physicist Discovers New Attribute in Electron Cryogenic Emission Using Photomultipliers

Science is detective work so it was not unexpected that new questions would follow old ones as Indiana University Bloomington nuclear physicist Hans-Otto Meyer's work progressed on testing a fundamental symmetry of nature that could lead to understanding the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe.

30 Apr 2010