The Optical SMART Hub helps extend the storage on devices by acting as a personal cloud.
And CEO Gary Smith sees more good times to come for the optical networking equipment company.
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Similarly, the optical components industry has suffered from over-capacity for years, depressing profitability and returns.
These speeds are possible because the optical components on same chip as the processors.
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This is the source of the optical pulse which can be seen from Earth.
If the company's track record on such things holds, the optical drive may be doomed.
Here's a picture of the inside of the case with the optical drive cage removed.
But instead of producing an electrical signal when it is tickled, the optical nose sneezes light.
So did their mystically bright brethren, the optical jocks and the wireless wizards.
Running the algorithms to translate the optical sensor info takes a good bit of computing power, however.
Remarkably, the optical stocks this time changed patterns and actually traded higher after hours on the news.
Stratos International had quite a day, too, as the optical-component maker received its own stream of investor enthusiasm.
The Optical SMART Hub allows CD and DVD writing function without ever turning on a desktop or notebook.
The optical pattern is spatially uniform, meaning that no positional registration of LEDs is required along its length.
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The Optical group has a little life in the form of Finisar (FNSR) and JDS Uniphase (JDSU).
In Everyday mode, the optical zoom is limited to 3.5X, and the area in which refocusing works is fixed.
One big problem in the optical world is a shortage of talent, and his pedigree has helped there, too.
The optical network sector, which rallied strongly late last week while the market was headed south, has reversed course.
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First up, we'll cover the technical details -- the optical display projects a WQVGA resolution screen with 16 degrees of view.
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An Android app for the Optical SMART Media Hub is already available, with an app for iPhone set to launch soon.
With the addition of a Samsung application, users can enable their smartphone, tablet, and PC access to the Optical Smart Hub.
The optical networking sector is trading lower Thursday following a disappointing financial report and outlook last night from Finisar.
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"We wanted to highlight the optical qualities of plastic, " said IDEO's Caroline Flagiello, who serves as Plastic Logic's acting creative director.
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Look inside the optical viewfinder and you'll get a meter that helps you determine how you're oriented respective to the horizon.
It transmits images through the optical nerve and then your brain returns the inverted image to its correct right side up.
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The changing colours are transmitted through the optical fibres to a camera, and thence fed into a neural net for analysis.
The optical wave could give Lucent a shot at some Cisco sizzle.
Illumina, located further south in San Diego, hopes to have a commercial version of the optical nose ready about a year later.
The new technology places glass optical fibers, which contain a laser diode that sends a signal beam into the optical, into the flutes.
The team describes its breakthrough results and their applications in a paper published today in the Optical Society's (OSA) open-access journal Optics Express.
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