The technology is commercialized by Transform Solar, a Boise, Idaho-based spin-off of the semiconductor giant Micron Technology.

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It's a spin-off of NASA's space technology, the space-age name the Geordi after Geordi LaForge of Star Trek.

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The kit and software are a spin-off of the Netherlands-based firm's motion capture technology, originally developed for movies including The Avengers and Ted.

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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.

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