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• Researchers crack the secret of levitation, hoverboards imminent?

  Published: August 7, 2007, 3:08 am

  Tags: Casimir Force, Casimirforce, Float, Floating, Frictionless, Hover, Hoverboard, Levitate, Levitation, Mems, Microelectromechanical Systems, Microelectromechanicalsystems, Nanotechnology, Science, University

  Try not to get too frenetic here, but a couple of gurus at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland have reportedly created an "incredible levitation effect by engineering the force of nature which normally causes objects to stick together." In layman's terms, the scientists have devised a way to reverse the phenomenon known as the Casimir force

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• Acoustic Research ARWH1 headset looks familiar for being a world's first

  Published: October 24, 2007, 3:58 pm

  Tags: Acoustic Research, Acousticresearch, Arwh1, Audiovox, Headset, Mems, Qualcomm

  to ship with Qualcomm's MEMS display tech, the big Q is at CTIA touting the Acoustic Research ARWH1 headset as the first device with such a display to hit the market -- even though it's just a rebrand of the exact same Lubix headset. Sneaky! Expect to see the AR version in stores this November for $99.  Read Permalink Email this

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• Qualcomm's MEMS-based e-paper handles mobile video with ease

  Published: November 1, 2007, 3:35 am

  Tags: Bi Stable, Display, E Paper, E Paper, Epaper, Hisense, Mems, Qualcomm

  know that Qualcomm and MEMS displays go hand in hand, but now the company is looking to seep into the mobile realm with an iteration that can supposedly handle fast-changing video clips without breaking a sweat. Put simply, the company's electronic-paper display "employs microscopic mechanical switches that turn pixels on and off at rates

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• Boston Micromachines Wins $750K for Optical Transponder Project

  Published: November 27, 2007, 5:31 pm

  Tags: Boston, News Briefs, Mems, Micromachines, Boston Micromachines, Defense

  MEMS, micromachines, Boston Micromachines Wade Roush wrote: The Defense Department’s Small Business Technology Transfer program has awarded $750,000 to Watertown-based Boston Micromachines to create portable optical communications devices from deformable micromirrors, according to an article today in Laser Focus World. The company,

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• Accelerating Memsic Sets IPO Terms

  Published: December 4, 2007, 10:29 am

  Tags: Kendall Square Blog, Ipos, Semiconductors, Mems, Memsic

  Semiconductors, MEMS Robert Buderi wrote: Tilt this. Measure that. You’ll be doing a lot more of both if Memsic has its way. The Andover, MA-based maker of integrated micro electro-mechanical systems, or MEMS, devices, yesterday set the terms of its planned IPO, annnouncing it hopes to sell six million shares at between $11

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• Memsic Drops IPO Price, Opens Flat

  Published: December 14, 2007, 11:23 am

  Tags: News Briefs, Ipos, Semiconductors, Mems, Memsic

  Semiconductors, MEMS Robert Buderi wrote: Andover, MA-based Memsic (NASDAQ: MEMS), a maker of sensors using micro electro-mechanical systems, or MEMS, had a lackluster debut this morning in its first day of trading. The firm had previously set the terms of its IPO at between $11 and $13 per share, but was forced to downgrade that

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• Research being done in Top Engineering Programs

  Published: December 13, 2007, 12:50 am

  Tags: Asu, Applied Mems Nanotechnology, Bio Materials, Bio Electronics, Bio Informatics, Bio Mechanics, Biomaterials, Biomedical Engineering Bio Materials And Bio Medical Se, Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Brown, Buffalo, Cmu, Cwru, Caltech, Cardiovascular Bio Mec

  Mechanical Engineering, MEMS, UCLA, Columbia, UFL, WPI, ASU, Nanotechnology, Nano-Engineering, Northeastern, Mechatronics, Micromechanics, Texas A&M, Thermal-fluid sciences, Michigan, Biomedical engineering, Applied MEMS/nanotechnology, robotics, and vehicle dynamics, Multi-scale modeling and simulation - Stanford, Energy, UTA, Heat

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• MEMS-based smart fuses could guarantee desired explosions

  Published: December 23, 2007, 11:50 am

  Tags: Army, Bomb, Explosion, Fuse, Georgia Tech, Georgiatech, Mems, Microelectromechanical Systems, Microelectromechanicalsystems, University, War, Weapon, Weaponry, Weapons

  production, the intelligent MEMS fuse will supposedly "incorporate built-in arm and fail-safe mechanisms that virtually guarantee that munitions go off when they should, every time." Weapons that fire when needed -- now there's a concept.[Image courtesy of Rich's Incredible Pyro] Read Permalink Email this Comments

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• It’s on display in Los Angeles

  Published: May 16, 2008, 2:22 pm

  Tags: New Technology, Display, Displays, Epson, Flat Panel, Laser Projector, Lcd Tv, Mems, Microvision, Oled, Samsung, Sid, Society For Information Display, Tft Lcd, Tv Panel

  use of Microvision’s MEMS single scanning mirror technology which does not require a lens, so it is focus-free. The tiny mirror will steer a beam of light precisely to project an image for use with automotive heads-up displays, cell phones and lap tops. LG Display will show their 15″ TFT-LCD made by an All Layer Roll Printing

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• Duke micro-bots learning to dance, probe cellular architectures

  Published: June 4, 2008, 12:55 am

  Tags: Ballet, Duke, Duke University, Dukeuniversity, Mems, Micro Robots, Microelectromechanical, Microscopic, Robot, Science, University

  Filed under: RobotsWe won't even front: Duke's quasi-invisibility cloak is far cooler than this, but a team of microscopic robots sure have the potential to do more good than a glorified figment of someone's imagination. Bruce Donald, a Duke professor of computer science and biochemistry, has teamed up with a few other mad scientists in order to

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• Underlying MotionPlus tech isn't a Nintendo exclusive

  Published: August 8, 2008, 11:40 am

  Tags: Gyroscope, Invensense, Mems, Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony, Wii, Wiimote

  licensing its motion-sensing MEMS technology to Nintendo for that new MotionPlus add-on, has now stated that its Nintendo partnership is "not an exclusive relationship." InvenSense won't let slip exactly who else is courting them for the tech, but we have to think the usual suspects (Microsoft, Sony) are at least giving the gyroscopic technology

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