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Helikite to add new dimension to aerial surveillance

The TULA is a stabilised platform, using an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) based on micro-electro mechanical system technology. Optical sight line correction is inferred based on the processing of the signals from the TULA IMU. A fibre-optic cable is ...

today defenceWeb - MEMS technology

Jawbone makes Bluetooth headsets cool with the Era

The device is packing small MEMS microphones (micro-electro-mechanical systems) that haven't been used in a Jawbone headset before, as well as custom DSP algorithms (digital signal processing), which adjust the loudness and work to deliver the best ...

today Shiny Shiny - MEMS technology

Viscometer, Rheometer Combo Boasts Fast Measurement

The system is a hybrid microfluidic and MEMS (micro-electromechanical system) sensor-based instrument. It determines viscosity by controlling sample volume flow rate and measuring changes in pressure as the sample passes along a microfluidic scale flow ...

yesterday Laboratory Equipment - MEMS technology

New Collagen Matrix Biomaterial Helps Keep Liver Cells Alive in Microfluidic ...

Microfluidics can create microenvironments into which investigational drugs can be added, the temperature changed, and any number of other variables controlled. The new nanoscale biomaterial is made out of collagen that was carefully applied to liver ...

today Medgadget.com - MEMS technology

Tiny Particles May Pose Big Risk

Using microfabrication technology, single cells can be trapped in tiny microwells within the matrix. This approach makes it possible to process as many as 1,000 samples in the time that it used to take to process just 30 samples — allowing researchers ...

today MIT Technology Review - MEMS technology

Review: Fitbit Flex Activity Tracker Wristband

For those interested in the tracking technology under the hood, the Fitbit Flex uses a MEMS (Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems) 3-axis accelerometer that measures your motion. Fitbit then pushes that data through its “special-sauce” algorithms to ...

yesterday We Got Served - MEMS technology

MEMS business

Inspired by a music box, Stanford bioengineer creates $5 chemistry set

These chips, called microfluidics chips, are increasingly common in research labs, but require expensive equipment and electricity to run. The expense and equipment required is a bottleneck in adapting the technology for science education and global ...

today Stanford Report - MEMS business

Sony: A Surprising New Competitor in Health Care

Sony's Digital Audio Disc Corporation (DADC) then collaborated with at least three life science companies -- RainDance, Quanterix, and Caliper -- to invest in microfluidics, a liquid-handling technology used in DNA chips and lab-on-a-chips. In 2011, it ...

yesterday Motley Fool - MEMS business

Spectroscopy Shines Brightly at Pittcon

Texas Instruments' DLP technology represents an expansion of MEMS technology into the worlds of transmittance In a presentation at Pittcon, Robertson and his colleague Chip Cody, MS product manager, illustrated how they used multimodal microscopy on ...

today Laboratory Equipment - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

Process Turns Cellulose into Energy Storage Devices

These carbon membranes at the nanoscale are extraordinarily thin – a single gram of them can have a surface area of nearly 2,000 square meters. That's part of what makes them useful in supercapacitors. And the new process used to do this is a single ...

today Laboratory Equipment - Nanotechnology

A $1000 Proteome? Protein Sequencers Raise the Question

A $1,000 Proteome? Protein Sequencers Raise the Question. A succession of amino acids can be identified by trapping them between nanoscale electrodes coated with recognition molecules and measuring the electron tunneling current across the junction.

today Genetic Engineering News - Nanotechnology

Domain walls in nanowires cleverly set in motion: Important prerequisite for ...

Magnetic nanowires have small regions of uniform magnetization called domains, which can be used as storage units (bits). The site where domains of different alignment meet each other is called a domain wall. Information can be stored in the domain ...

today Nanotechnology News (press release) - Nanotechnology

Featured Event

The Design Automation Conference (DAC) is recognized as the premier event for the design of electronic circuits and systems, electronic design automation (EDA), embedded systems and software (ESS), and intellectual property (IP). The conference is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Electronic Design Automation Consortium (EDA Consortium), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and is supported by ACM's Special Interest Group on Design.

Event Calendar

The 9th Annual IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems 2014-04-13 - 2014-04-16 Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
RF MEMS: A Solution for the LTE Advanced Standard and future 5G 2014-04-17 Online - 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM EDT Hosted by Guillaume d'Eyssautier, DELFMEMS
2014 Biosensors & Analytics Conference 2014-04-23 - 2014-04-24 Cleveland, OH Sensing the Future of Healthcare
MEMS Industry Group Conference 2014-04-24 Tokyo, Japan The Global MEMS Supply Chain
IEEE SF Bay Area MEMS Chapter 2014-04-30 Qualcomm Cafe, Santa Clara, CA - 7:45pm MEMS WARS: A New Hope - Dr. Kurt Petersen, Palios Inc.
MicroManufacturing Conference & Exhibits 2014-05-06 - 2014-05-08 Hartford, CT
MIG M2M Forum 2014 2014-05-20 - 2014-05-21 Berkeley, CA The MEMS Supply Chain - It Takes a Village
12th Annual MEPTEC MEMS Technology Symposium 2014-05-22 San Jose, CA Advances in MEMS - Foundations in Design, Process, Packaging and Test
Medical MEMS and Sensors 2014 2014-05-28 - 2014-05-29 Detroit, Michigan
Design Automation Conference (DAC 2014) 2014-06-01 - 2014-06-05 San Francisco, CA
IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS2014) 2014-06-01 - 2014-06-06 Tampa Bay, FL For technologists involved in all aspects of microwave theory and practice
Hilton Head 2014 2014-06-08 - 2014-06-14 Hilton Head Island, SC A Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Workshop
Microtech 2014 2014-06-15 - 2014-06-19 Washington, DC Addressing advancements in traditional technologies, emerging technologies and business practices.
Sensors Expo & Conference 2014-06-24 - 2014-06-26 Rosemont, IL
MicroTAS 2014 2014-10-26 - 2014-10-30 San Antonio, TX
AVS 61st International Symposium and Exhibition 2014-11-09 - 2014-11-14 Baltimore, MD Science and Technology of Materials, Interfaces, and Processing
The 28th International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems 2015-01-18 - 2015-01-22 Estoril, Portugal
Transducers 2015 2015-06-21 - 2015-06-25 Anchorage, Alaska