Dr. Peter Schreiber of the Fraunhofer Institute told the BBC that such a device could be eventually embedded into cellphones or PDAs.
ENGADGET: German researchers unveil a euro cent-sized projector
GoalRef has been developed by German research institute Fraunhofer and involves using magnetic strips inside the ball to detect whether or not it has crossed the goal line.
Why must you be so coy with us, Fraunhofer Institute?
ENGADGET: German researchers unveil a euro cent-sized projector
Fraunhofer also will design a system to allow the solar energy equipment to check itself for proper installation and to send its power generation data to the local utility.
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Fraunhofer's Full-HD Voice technology is already widely used to provide CD-like audio quality for professional video conferencing systems, as well as consumer video telephony applications, such as apple FaceTime.
But what you probably haven't seen is this euro cent-sized projector created by crafty German engineers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering in Jena.
ENGADGET: German researchers unveil a euro cent-sized projector
The head-tracking system, which was developed by the Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz Institute in Germany, works by calculating how far away a head is, based on its apparent size (the direction is obvious, of course).
The portrait in question was drawn by a robot programmed by Martina Richter, a scientist with the Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation, based in Ettlingen, Germany, and several of her colleagues.
App developers can access the natively-integrated AAC-ELD codec through the Fraunhofer FDK Codec Library in Android since version 4.1 and in iOS since version 4.0 as well as in OSX, allowing cross-platform deployment of Full-HD Voice.
It took exactly two stops before we got to the first soccer-themed demonstration: the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits showed off the advantages of embedding chips in soccer balls, along with the shoes of the players.
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Wilhelm Meiners and his colleagues at the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology in Aachen, Germany, are one group working to extend the technology to print reconstructive facial plates and even load-bearing artificial joints, such as hips, which could be customised for each patient.
Germany's Fraunhofer Institute, for instance, is involved in a European initiative to develop robots that are safe enough to operate alongside workers (at present, most industrial robots still have to be caged in case they accidentally hit someone) and capable of understanding simple instructions, including voice commands.
Microsoft thought it was in the clear since the company had licensed the MP3 codec from Germany's Fraunhofer Institute (members of which are pictured above), which bills itself as "the birthplace of MP3", but as the New York Times writes today there are a bunch of companies which claim to have had at least something to do with creating the codec.
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