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Lockheed Stealth Fighters Fly Out of Final Assembly Site

Two F-35A Lightning II Lockheed stealth fighters were flown non-stop to the California-based Edwards Air Force Base from Fort Worth, Texas-based Lockheed Martin’s final assembly site recently.

20 May 2010

ST and Micropelt Develop Autonomous Wireless Sensor Evaluation Kit

An autonomous wireless sensor based evaluation system has been developed by Micropelt GmbH and STMicrlelectronics (STM) jointly.

20 May 2010

Redsense Safety Device Obtains FDA Clearance

FDA has cleared the Redsense safety device for self or home utilization and is therefore available to home hemodialysis patients in the United States. The safety device is devised to sense venous needle dislodgement at the time of hemodialysis and its deployment has bettered the safety of in-clinic patients.

20 May 2010

Harris Crosses Milestone in NOAA Program to Deliver Weather Images

An important landmark has been achieved successfully by the international information technology and communications company Harris Corporation in a ‘National Oceanic and Atmospheric (NOAA’ initiative that will enable processing of forty times more data than what is possible now, and provide weather images to direct users numbering more than 10,000

20 May 2010

National Instruments Reaches 100 Plug-In Module Milestone

More than 50 modules, 50 third-party modules and a variety of chassis are available to meet the need of measurement and embedded control applications.

From National Instruments Corporation (U.K.) Ltd. 20 May 2010

e2v CCD Image Sensors Used to Explore Venus Planet

The e2v CCD47-20 sensors are frame transfer Charge Coupled Devices with 1024 x 1024 pixels, with each measuring 13µmsq.

20 May 2010

Aptina Enhances Third Generation FSI Image Sensor Technology

Enhancements in the ‘Aptina A-Pix frontside illumination (FSI) image sensor technology,’ a third generation technology, has resulted in substantial crosstalk and quantum efficiency (QE) improvements along with 25% light level enhancement with the same signal-to-noise ratio based performance as compared to the second generation technology.

20 May 2010

DigitalPersona Fingerprint Biometrics Integrated in ScriptRx System

The global endpoint protection and authentication solutions vendor DigitalPersona’s U.are.U fingerprint biometrics have been integrated in the ScriptRx System.

20 May 2010

Wireless Radiation Sensor Implant Senses Radiation Delivered to Tumors

Sicel Technologies’ wireless radiation sensor, also termed the Dose Verification System (DVS) is being implanted by Hackensack University Medical Center’s John Theurer Cancer Center to enable radiation oncologists to immediately receive post prostate cancer treatment data related to the exact quantity of radiation received by the tumors along with the tissue surrounding these tumors.

20 May 2010

Sandia Engineers Validate Device Performance for Space Functions

Satellites launched in the space for detection of environmental gases and nuclear events are presently experiencing a sort of data logjam problem since powerful sensors mounted on board the satellite deliver more information than their existing bandwidth is able to transmit to earth.

20 May 2010

N-trig Gesture Vocabulary with Integrated Pen and Touch Technologies

N-trig, a vendor of the DuoSense solution that integrates the capacitive true multi-touch and the pen functionalities in a single gadget, has launched the ‘N-trig N-act Hands-on gesture vocabulary’ related to four, three and two plus features-based finger multi-touch functionality.

19 May 2010

US Air Force Aircraft Integrated Sensor Suite Contract for Northrop

Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded a contract by the US Air Force for providing the unmanned aircraft program of Global Hawk with a capability of interim repair for the Air Force’s enhanced integrated sensor suite (EISS) and integrated sensor suite (ISS).

19 May 2010