News tagged with photo diode

Let me hear your heart beat

(PhysOrg.com) -- What if monitoring your heart rate were as easy as listening to music while you jog? Thanks to advances in space technology, an iPhone will soon be able to do double duty: keep you in tune ...

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 25, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Wireless optical transmission key to secure, safe and rapid indoor communications

Light is better than radio waves when it comes to some wireless communications, according to Penn State engineers. Optical communications systems could provide faster, more secure communications with wider bandwidth and would ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 27, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Sony Debuts Digital Still Camera with Back-Illuminated 'Exmor R' CMOS Sensor

Sony today announced two new Cyber-shot cameras (DSC-TX1 and DSC-WX1 models) that provide unprecedented advances in low-light performance with approximately twice the sensitivity of cameras with traditional ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Review: New HTC phones are Ones to look for

When it comes to smartphones, I'm an iPhone guy. But I've long appreciated HTC's Android phones.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

3-D, after-the-fact focus image sensors invented

(PhysOrg.com) -- At the heart of digital photography is a chip called an image sensor that captures a map of the intensity of the light as it comes through the lens and converts it to an electronic signal.

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Review: New iPad screen is eye-opening upgrade

(AP) -- Beware the new iPad, not because it's an inferior product, but because it's a superior one. Using one is like living the life of a millionaire for a day, then getting dumped back in your regular life. Your eyes are ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (10) | comments 4

Review: Vita sets new standard for portable games

(AP) -- The PlayStation Vita won't replace your smartphone. For starters, it isn't a telephone (although it will eventually let you use Skype). And it's too big to fit in your pants pocket, unless you're wearing ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Feb 21, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 3

Faster colloidal fluorescence emitters: Nanoplatelets

(PhysOrg.com) -- Significant advances in the application of colloidal structures as light emitters and lasers may soon be realized following the discovery of very fast fluorescence emission rates in colloidal ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

OMEGA at the top of the data transfer game

Researchers in Europe have successfully developed a new transfer technology for video data. An outcome of the OMEGA project, the team transferred data at an extremely fast rate of 100 megabits per second (Mbit/s) ...

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Data are traveling by light

Regular LEDs can be turned into optical WLAN with only a few additional components thanks to visible light communication (in short, VLC). The lights are then not just lighting up, they also transfer data. ...

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Samsung LED seeks US import ban on Osram products

(AP) -- A Samsung unit is raising the ante in a patent dispute with a German rival over energy-saving LED lighting amid intensifying legal disputes among global companies jockeying for supremacy in key consumer technologies.

Technology / Business

created Jul 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Nano-LEDs emit full visible spectrum of light

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists from Taiwan have designed and fabricated nano-sized light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that emit light spanning the entire visible spectrum. Although the tiny full-color LEDs aren't intended ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 17, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (18) | comments 2 | with audio podcast feature

Panasonic develops new high picture quality MOS image sensor with industry's highest sensitivity

Panasonic Corporation has successfully developed high sensitivity and high picture quality technologies for new MOS image sensors by improving the sensitivity of the company's νMaicovicon MOS image sensor ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created May 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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