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Two Retinal Imaging Display Devices at Prototype Stage

(PhysOrg.com) -- NEC and Brother are both developing wearable prototype devices that use Retinal Imaging Display (RID) technology to project images directly on the wearer's retina. NEC's gadget is designed ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (29) | comments 9 weblog

Laser sparks revolution in internal combustion engines

For more than 150 years, spark plugs have powered internal combustion engines. Automakers are now one step closer to being able to replace this long-standing technology with laser igniters, which will enable cleaner, more ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 20, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (27) | comments 34 | with audio podcast

World's largest laser gears up for ignition experiments

(PhysOrg.com) -- Construction of the National Ignition Facility (NIF), the world's largest and highest-energy laser system, was essentially completed on Feb. 26, when technicians at Lawrence Livermore National ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (23) | comments 25

Beaming rockets into space

Space launches have evoked the same image for decades: bright orange flames exploding beneath a rocket as it lifts, hovers and takes off into the sky. But an alternative propulsion system proposed by some ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 21, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (22) | comments 49 | with audio podcast

Laser shoots down drones at sea (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- An infrared laser developed by Arizona company Raytheon Missile Systems has been demonstrated shooting down incoming drones over the ocean off the coast of California.

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 21, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (22) | comments 35 | with audio podcast report

Engineers turn noise into vision

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new technique for revealing images of hidden objects may one day allow pilots to peer through fog and doctors to see more precisely into the human body without surgery.

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 01, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (19) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Digital quantum simulator realized

(PhysOrg.com) -- The physicists of the University of Innsbruck and the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) in Innsbruck have come considerably closer to their goal to investigate complex ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (16) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Miracle light: Can lasers solve the energy crisis?

Next year will mark the 50th birthday of the laser, one of the most productive and widely used mega-inventions of the last century. Scientists hope that 2010 also will see the launch of laser technology's greatest challenge: ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 4

MIT Lincoln Lab spinout unveils new more powerful direct-diode laser

(PhysOrg.com) -- TeraDiode, a spinout company from MIT Lincoln Lab and located nearby in Littleton, MA, has unveiled, a new powerful direct-diode laser capable of cutting all the way through steel up to half ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 08, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 32 | with audio podcast report

Nanotube-based terahertz polarizer nears perfection

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Rice University are using carbon nanotubes as the critical component of a robust terahertz polarizer that could accelerate the development of new security and communication ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Light on silicon better than copper?

Step aside copper and make way for a better carrier of information -- light.

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Oct 21, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Laser light used to cool object to quantum ground state

For the first time, researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), in collaboration with a team from the University of Vienna, have managed to cool a miniature mechanical object to its lowest ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Australian laser system to track space junk

An Australian company Tuesday said it had developed a laser tracking system that will stop chunks of space debris colliding with spacecraft and satellites in the Earth's orbit.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 20, 2010 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (12) | comments 2

First ever direct measurement of the Earth's rotation

A group with researchers of the Technical University of Munich, Germany, are the first to plot changes in the Earth's axis through laboratory measurements. To do this, they constructed the world's most stable ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

New ultra-small laser opens up a world of possibilities

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computing and medicine are among the many fields which could be revolutionised by a new form of ultra-small laser.

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast