Light Blue Optics, a tiny technology company in Cambridge, England is developing a portable projector that can turn any flat surface into a touch screen and save our hands the hassle of holding anything.
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Disk-drive stocks are trading lower early Thursday after tiny Hutchinson Technology last night issued an ominous warning on June quarter results.
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Yang's tiny microscope combines microfluidic technology--nanoscale devices that handle very small volumes of fluids--with optical sensors to do the tasks traditional microscopes do but cheaper and more efficiently.
In the late 1980s his tiny manufacturing shop became a technology licensing outfit.
He is chairman of tiny, publicly held American Technology Corp.
That work is still ongoing at MIT, but the pair left, with the idea of using the same silicon micromachining technology to build tiny "reformers" that could separate pure hydrogen from alcohol for fuel cells.
The quantities of rare earths used in technology components are so tiny that higher prices are invisible in the cost to consumers.
It is done using a special type of liquid-crystal array developed by a British firm called Light Blue Optics, which is also developing the technology for use in tiny projectors (see article).
The technology is made possible by tiny strands of zinc oxide that are sandwiched between two electrodes.
New technology lets even food trucks and tiny vendors in on the action.
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One reason: companies are cramming more technology into the pager's tiny, hand-held box.
The story points out that IMU technology has traditionally had problems because tiny errors in calculation add up over time until the predictions are way off.
Ultimately, the biggest threat to Akamai may come not from the billion-dollar behemoths that its technology aims to replace but from tiny startups that seek to replace Akamai.
Yang's tiny, dime-sized microscope combines microfluidic technology--nanoscale devices that handle very small volumes of fluids--with optical sensors to do the tasks traditional microscopes do, but cheaper and more efficiently.
At airport check-ins, breakthrough "sniffing" technology will detect explosives in traces as tiny as billionths of a gram.
And Livescribe has tried since 2007 to popularize its technology, which uses a pen with a tiny, built-in camera and special paper to record and wirelessly transmit text as you write.
Though gaps in technology remain, for example, a trillion tiny sensors will need a power sources, IoT startups are making a leap of faith that current advances in sensing, computing and energy will be sufficient to unlock a new world of possibility.
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But this method isn't common yet in smartphones because the technology hasn't quite caught up to the tiny gizmos.
In 2003, Stanford University spin-out company Cooligy showed off its Active Micro-Channel Cooling (AMC) technology which allowed fluids to circulate through hundreds of tiny channels on the upper surface of a chip.
Keep in mind that there are still only a tiny number of companies that have truly utilized the power of the technology.
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To make dies capable of pressing tiny, intricate patterns onto the threads, LeVey had to borrow a technology often used to create injection molds for detailed plastic parts.
He also suggests the tiny, featherweight i-mode phones might not be suitable for 3G technology because their screens are too small for video images. (Actually, some i-mode phones come with larger screens.) "The phones aren't all that easy to use, " says Neuvo.
While not quite as "nano" as the SIM card-sized satellites that launched with the Shuttle Endeavor, the smaller-than-a-breadbox ExoPlanetSat is still pretty tiny by satellite standards, yet it packs all the necessary optics and technology required for what's known as transit observation -- that is, monitoring a star for decreases in brightness, which could indicate a planet passing in front of it.
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This is admittedly small stuff compared with tiny computers and targeted drug delivery, but it demonstrates how companies that master the technology will be able to produce an endless array of innovative products.
To combat this giant gray market--where fakes can easily snake their way into the drug supply--Bond and other drug company executives are hoping to turn to a new technology, called radio frequency identification, or RFID, which pairs a tiny microchip with a small antenna.
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