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1. TG Daily’s Dads and Grads Product Giveaway: Play along and win!

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Friday, 19 June 2009

   ... versatility. Retailing for $39.99, it’s a more affordable alternative than laser hair removal and can be used in or out of the shower.  Its summertime, so this is a tool every guy will want to own ...

2. Red giant Betelgeuse is mysteriously shrinking

   (Space/Space Features)

   Wednesday, 10 June 2009

   ... said Charles Townes, the UC Berkeley professor emeritus of physics who won the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing the laser and the maser. "We will be watching it carefully over the next few years ...

3. Laser makes light bulbs super-bright

   (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

   Sunday, 31 May 2009

   Ordinary incandescent light bulbs can be made super-efficient using a laser process, say optics researchers at the University of Rochester. Rochester, NY - Ordinary incandescent light bulbs can be made ...

4. UPDATED: Possible natural explanation found for West Antarctica's warming

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

   Friday, 23 January 2009

   ... could be. It gradually became brighter over 100 days, and then gradually became dimmer over the next 100 days. Here's another one: Scientists have been using lasers for years. Our DVD players and CD drives ...

5. Insight from within the solar system provides new ideas about clean energy

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Friday, 24 October 2008

     A team of scientists led by the University of Oxford and researchers from the Science and Technology Facilities Councils Central Laser Facility have discovered more information about the hot, ...

6. African locusts could help make better cars

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Friday, 19 September 2008

   ... scanning lasers or LIDAR instead of regular vision cameras and webcams.  Regular cameras sense objects through pattern recognition and contrast detection, something that doesn’t work too well in bland ...

7. Kick those DVDs to the curb with Real DVD

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Monday, 08 September 2008

   ... Rob Glaser, the program will then store an “exact” copy of the DVD to your hard drive.  The copying takes about 20 minutes and of course, you’ll need about 4-8 gigabytes of free space for each DVD. ...

8. New tech increases yields and performance of organic circuits

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Friday, 05 September 2008

   ... which require complex and expensive vacuum as well as high heat and laser processes to manufacture, organic semiconductors are basically sprayed onto a thin film with a type of ink-jet printer. Polymer ...

9. 3D texture graphics in a flash

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Tuesday, 02 September 2008

   ... often complex and dangerous pieces of hardware (such as lasers) all working in coordination. Whereas these processes produce hyper-accurate models of the 3D surface, the reality is that for most applications ...

10. Xerox sees the future with re-usable paper, cell technology

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 01 May 2008

    Xerox's research lab is one of the big technology hot spots around the world, and it recently highlighted some of the innovations it is working on to pave the way to the future.  The high-tech firm ...

11. Getting inside Steve Jobs’ head

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Friday, 25 April 2008

    ... in general are not his strengths) and delegate the things he isn’t good at. Instead, he is focusing like a laser on building great products and marketing.  From the quality of the offering, to how ...

12. Scientists working towards Terahertz handheld devices

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    Friday, 28 March 2008

    ... operating temperature for a terahertz quantum cascade laser. That may sound strange, but makes sense if you consider the fact that these lasers only work at temperatures of minus 100° Celsius. A room-temperature ...

13. Red light ... green light ... 5 millivolts

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Sunday, 02 December 2007

    ... opinion When I toured Intel's debug laboratory recently where they work on future microprocessors, finding bugs, fixing problems, increasing clock speeds, etc., they showed me a device called a laser ...

14. Tech Tour Intel: Gainestown spotted in the microsurgery silicon debug lab

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 06 November 2007

    ... be read by something called a Laser Voltage Probe (LVP).  The LVP then can report back to the debug teams what state the circuit is in at a given time.  Intel also uses other tools which perform ...

15. Tech Tour Terascale: Developing Terascale 2

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 05 November 2007

    ... Everything we've seen up until now will later be viewed as the typewriter equivalent of the color laser printer's abilities, which are coming. Those children being born today will use computers ...

16. DARPA Urban Challenge: NC State/Insight Racing Lotus

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 26 October 2007

    While many of the Urban Challenge teams are using big SUVs, the team from NC State and Insight Racing are using a very low-to-the-ground Lotus Elise.  Bristling with lasers, cameras and of course ...

17. Scientists make light bend over backwards

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 16 October 2007

    ... infrared and laser research in the years to come.  New types of optics could be constructed which allow for better focusing, smaller distortions, less loss of photons through scattering or absorption, ...

18. CD-ROM drives turned into portable lab kits

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 25 September 2007

    ... for Blu-ray and HD-DVD drives which use finer laser beams, potentially capable of even greater precision, accuracy sample capacity and speed.  ...

19. SCO, Linux and Rob Enderle: A Conclusion

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Monday, 24 September 2007

    ... there was no “other” column). I saw this as a clear ethics problem and resigned the next day, focused like a laser on the Linux supporters I then viewed as criminals. And if they were criminals, ...

20. TG Daily Special: The bleeding edge of 3D face recognition

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 04 September 2007

    ... This data set makes the process far more accurate than the 3D image data alone.  But, it's not even limited to infrared. Laser scans are also available as an alternate source of 3D input.  ...

21. Silicon-based rainbow lasers transmit at 40 Gb/s

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 21 August 2007

    Researchers at the University of California in Santa Barbara last year were able to create a silicon-based laser capable of emitting 4 ps (picoseconds) light pulses. This remarkable achievement broke ...

22. DARPA Urban Challenge: Axion Racing Interview

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 15 August 2007

    ... types Axion’s “Spirit” car will be using stereo vision as its guidance.  Many of the other teams have focused on either RADAR or spinning Velodyne LADAR laser units for guidance.  ...

23. Intel is getting more serious about phase change memory

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 15 August 2007

    ... rewriteable CDs. Heat provided by a laser converts the chalcogenide alloy between its crystalline (conductive) and amorphous (resistive) phases to store data. PCM is believed to have some drawbacks that ...

24. Intel develops high-speed silicon laser modulator

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    Wednesday, 25 July 2007

    Intel today said that it has developed a laser modulator with a bandwidth of 40 Gb/s. What makes this device - it actually exists as a packaged prototype product – special is the fact that it runs ...

25. Scientists demonstrate room-temperature nanolaser

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    Wednesday, 20 June 2007

    Japanese scientists claim to have a come a step closer to a laser technology that could be used one day in optical integrated circuits. According to an article published in Optics Express, researchers ...

26. Opinion: Blu-ray not even close to winning format war

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

    Friday, 20 April 2007

    ... of my substantial laserdisc collection. We saw the exact same thing with Sony's proprietary PSP disc known as UMD.  Practically every top studio leaped onto that bandwagon, following a short-lived ...

27. Will Apple's Leopard bite? - analyst opinion

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Thursday, 22 February 2007

    ... sleeping, the danger is that this could focus Microsoft like a laser on them and a focused Microsoft, as Netscape discovered, is still potentially a very scary thing. Then again, we kind of said the same ...

28. First DVDs with HD capability produced

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Wednesday, 21 February 2007

    ... in single-layer (4.7 GB) and dual-layer (9.4 GB) formats and leverage red 650 nm wavelength lasers as compared to the HD DVD's / Blu-ray's blue 405 nm lasers. However, the 3x DVD is intended for ...

29. Logitech puts a double-spin on mice

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 24 August 2006

    Computer mice are fairly boring devices and companies have tried adding lasers, vibration sensors and scrolling wheels to spice them up. Now Logitech has announced its new MX and VX Revolution mouse line ...

30. Analysis: Khronos and OpenGL ARB merge

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 18 July 2006

    ... the architectural firepower of the OpenGL ARB and the laser market focus of OpenGL ES will be blended into a potent force for the 3D graphics industry. Conclusion While, on the face of it, the merger of ...

31. Hitachi launches 160 GB perpendicular mobile hard drive

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 14 May 2006

    ... "Winchester" technology to a new generation of hard drives, which are predicted to use lasers make read and write processes more reliable. But perpendicular may offer much more potential than to serve ...

32. Panasonic readies dual-layer Blu-ray disc burner for 10 June release

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 21 April 2006

    ... The latter uses two recording layers, one beneath the other, with the one closest to the surface being semi-transparent - like current dual-layer DVD. But with blue-laser technology, maintaining the necessary ...

33. Research shows lasers could see through walls one day

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 22 February 2006

    ... become transparent when hit by a laser. London (UK) - A report published by the Imperial College London and the University of Neuchatel (Switzerland) in the journal Nature Materials says that researchers ...

34. New Blu-ray member Warner Bros. would support iHD layer, oppose mandatory managed copy

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 28 October 2005

    ... in the business of choosing victors in technology battles, you may not want to count all the cards just yet. Warner convinces Blu-ray to adopt red laser as a fallback For Warner Bros. to accept membership ...

35. Stanford's Stanley wins DARPA Grand Challenge 2005

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Saturday, 08 October 2005

    ... the course. Terramax is going into the chute. Update 9:08 AM PST We were just told by DARPA that Team DAD was disabled because it's spinning laser sensor stopped spinning. The sensor is the vehicle's primary ...

36. Team Stanford aiming for the jackpot at DARPA Grand Challenge 2005

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 06 October 2005

    ... see when you are cresting a hill," said Montemerlo. The raw laser data is saved to laptop hard-drives using a compressed ASCII format that is easy to handle and edit. "The laser data stream is about 250 ...

37. NEC shows prototype dual DVD/HD-DVD drive

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Thursday, 18 December 2003

      NEC Corp. NEC Corp. has demonstrated for the first time a prototype optical disc drive that uses a single optical head to read DVDs and discs recorded in a blue-laser format that is awaiting final ...

38. NEC-Mitsubishi Trims Down LCD Monitors

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Monday, 18 June 2001

    ... makes compact disk drives tick, but many of you might be interested in technology that will make their capacity four times larger. Elantec Semiconductor today introduced a new laser diode driver called ...

39. Blue Lasers Increase Storage Capacity

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Monday, 18 June 2001

      Not sure how many of you are interested in what makes compact disk drives tick, but many of you might be interested in technology that will make their capacity four times larger. The popularity ...

40. White LEDs to replace light bulbs

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Thursday, 14 December 2000

      Shuji Nakamura, a leader in LED and laser research, said in his keynote address to the International Electron Devices Meeting that new white LEDs, once considered the holy grail of semiconductor ...