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  • Smart Phone Includes Integrated Thermal Imager

    The Cat S60 includes the FLIR Lepton thermal imager, accessed from a dedicated FLIR app.

  • Nano Crystals Make Stretch-and-Tune Lenses

    The devices were made by embedding titanium oxide nano crystals in the contact-lens material.

  • Hydrogen Peroxide Process a Boon to Water Purification

    The method produces hydrogen peroxide on demand through a one-step process.

  • Nearly 59,000 U.S. Bridges Are Structurally Deficient

    At the current pace of bridge investment it will take at least 20 years before all are replaced or upgraded.

  • “Haptic Glasses” Could Make Car Navigation Easier

    The researchers removed the lenses in smart glasses and added vibrating technology to indicate which direction a driver should take and when.

  • Device “Fingerprinting” Could Help Protect the Grid

    Fingerprinting techniques protect various operations of the grid, preventing or minimizing spoofing of packets that could be injected to produce false data or control commands.

  • Annual Pulse of Engineering Survey: Pros Focused on Their Work

    More than 2,200 respondents from 94 countries took part in this year’s online assessment of the profession.

  • From the Boneyard: The Art of Building with Scraps

    Creative thinkers are fashioning tools that are changing lives in disadvantaged parts of the world.

  • Underwater Restaurant en Route to Maldives

    The restaurant will arrive on-site in early March and be lowered onto specially prepared piled foundations on the edge of a coral reef at Huravalhi Island.

  • Volvo's Digital Key Facilitates Car Sharing

    Customers will be offered an application for their mobile phones, replacing the physical key with one that is digital.

  • Implanted Electrode Could Allow Mind Control of Exoskeleton

    In in-human trials, which will begin in 2017, the researchers aim to achieve direct brain control of an exoskeleton for three people suffering from paralysis.

  • Airbus Investigates Space-Based Solar Power

    The company's proposed space-based solar power system would help meet the world’s growing energy requirements.

  • NASA Data Used to Track Groundwater in Pakistan

    Satellite data from NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment mission creates monthly updates on groundwater storage changes in the Indus River basin.

  • Paper-Based Skin with Real-Time Sensing

    The skin was assembled from off-the-shelf materials.

  • Orion Solar Array Test Is Termed a Success

    The test was the first in a series to verify the equipment can withstand launch and ascent into deep space.

  • Open Source Laser Sintering Process Now Available

    The open source system could open the door for researchers and designers to work with their own proprietary or specialized materials.

  • Voltage Barrier Broken for CdTe Solar Cells

    Crystals are grown in a technique called melt growth, which allows precise control over purity and composition.

  • 3D Printing Gets Timely

    This method could be used in a variety of potential 4D applications.

  • Molten Salts Deliver Cleaner Copper, Energy Capture

    The complementary inventions may present an opportunity to make impacts in both mining and energy storage.

  • Ferry Could Offer Economic, Environmental Benefits

    The electric option generates little noise pollution and zero emissions.

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