Robot Helps With Tedious Job Of Sorting Plastic For Recycling

While everybody is trying to go green and get into the whole recycling trend, having to sort through the plastics in the pre-recycle sort isn’t precisely fun or easy. Factor in the deal that the recycle numbers stamped on most plastic containers don’t accurately indicate whether they can be recycled together or not, and you’ve [...]

Germanium Lasers To Offer Optical Computing?

The brilliant minds by a MIT have demonstrated the first laser that’s built from germanium, which is able to produce wavelengths of light useful for optical communication. Aside from that, it’s additionally the first germanium laser to operate at room temperature. While it might not be immediately obvious, one of the benefits of using germanium [...]

33.4GB Per Layer On Your Blu-ray Discs Coming?

While 25GB on a disc a few years back seemed like a lot of documents, we might be able to get 33.4GB per DVD layer in the near future. Panasonic and Sony have revealed that a technology, i-MLSE (Maximum Likelihood Sequence Estimation) that can supply a third more space on a Blu-ray disc than existing [...]

Get 33.4GB Per Layer On Your Blu-ray Discs Coming?

While 25GB on a disc a few years back seemed like a lot of notes, we might be able to get 33.4GB per DVD layer in the near future. Panasonic and Sony have revealed that a technology, i-MLSE (Maximum Likelihood Sequence Estimation) that can supply a third more space on a Blu-ray disc than existing [...]

Laser harp makes music

Jared has some leftover lasers from a previous project, and deciding to follow the mantra “waste not, want not”, he decided to put them to good use by conjuring that magical laser harp. that fine musical instrument replaces traditional strings on a harp with laser diodes that shine at Cadmium Sulfide photo resistors. Whenever the [...]

scoreLight offers new way to produce music

A picture speaks a thousand words, or so they say, but can it plus sing a hundred songs? That could very well be the case with scoreLight, a laser-based musical device which can generate real-time sound based on the shape of drawings or objects. that is made possible courtesy of 3D tracking technology developed at [...]

Collapsible lamp

There are lamps, and thereupon there are lamps. that beautiful lampshade falls under the latter, as it is capable of collapsing down to a virtually flat structure factor due to the way it was made using lasers. The only way to create something with that sort of complexity is rapid prototyping—and laser sintering, to be [...]

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