These new technologies will
make use of laser and a camera that will be installed on the front windscreen.
The New Products Showcase also
makes use of laser scanners and bar codes so that buyers and media can capture product information at the speed of light as they move from product to product.
What sets the two apart though is the ZenFone 2 Laser's autofocus system that
makes use of a laser pointer placed near the rear - facing camera.
When it comes to the camera there is a 13MP AF camera on the rear that
makes use of Laser for faster focus and front camera is a 5MP shooter.
Rear camera
makes use of Laser AF and PDAF, camera quality is excellent, much better when compared with the older Moto G smartphones.
Not exact matches
Its portfolio includes: Nuburu, a maker
of high - powered blue
lasers used for precision welding in aerospace and electronics; SLIPS Technologies, which
makes super slippery coatings
used to keep industrial equipment clean; and OTI Lumionics, a maker
of OLED materials that go into high - definition displays.
Advanced manufacturing companies such as GE are
using very expensive machines with specialized high - power
lasers to
make a few high - value parts (see «Additive Manufacturing» in our 10 Breakthrough Technologies list
of 2013).
A company called Glowforge
used crowdfunding to find funding for its 3D
laser printer — and has now
made the crowdfunding hall
of fame as the biggest 30 - day campaign in history.
Laser has been developed to offer this function
of interoperability between blockchain by standardizing properties such as wallet numbers, it will be possible for users
of one blockchain to
make transactions with users
of another blockchain without the
use of a third - party exchange.
Here's the problem: To
make a BEC, physicists
use magnets and
lasers to trap and chill atoms so that their speeds drop from thousands
of meters per second to centimeters per second — slower than a walk.
These have been
used to create
laser beams
made of atoms that etch precise patterns on surfaces, and might one day lead to superconductors that work at room temperature.
The cars
use a suite
of cameras, radar, and
laser range finders to collect data on the surrounding environment and then feed the info to computers that have been able to
make driving decisions just as well as humans.
Now, many think that GE Hitachi, which
uses a proprietary enrichment technique known as separation
of isotopes by
laser excitation, or SILEX, may have finally found a way to
make the method more efficient than processes involving gaseous diffusion or centrifuges (See Risky Business).
Other tools in the researchers» arsenal were high - resolution tracking, which provided information about how the manta rays
used the lagoon habitat over long and short periods
of time; an acoustic camera, which logged patterns
of the animals entrances and departures from the lagoons; and photo identification /
laser photogrammetry —
making measurements from photographs — which provided insight into whether the manta rays were staying in this habitat for longer time periods by tracking their comings and goings.
To simulate these conditions, researchers
use special facilities at the Advanced Photon Source, where they shine high - powered
lasers to heat up the sample inside a pressure cell
made of a pair
of diamonds.
But now he has he figured out how to print conducting materials in three dimensions without
using a
laser, a key step if the machine is ever to
make copies
of itself.
Another proposed method would
use a high - power infrared
laser to both strip electrons and break down the air, but the method requires the detector be located in the opposite direction
of the
laser, which would
make it impractical to create a single, mobile device.
One is to
make precise measurements
of the round - trip distance from the spacecraft to the asteroid
using the on - board
laser altimeter.
Sellers and his team
used a
laser scanner to create a 3D computer model
of the skeleton
of an Edmontosaurus, a type
of hadrosaur or «duck - billed» dinosaur, and added virtual muscles to
make it move.
Scientists
made select nerve cells in mice's brains sensitive to light, and then
used lasers to activate specific groups
of those cells.
Crucially, the JILA team verified the stability
of the technique by
using the two
lasers to
make two separate, independent measurements
of a single sample.
The device
makes use of a phenomenon called electromagnetically induced transparency, in which a
laser beam can render opaque clouds
of atoms temporarily transparent to a narrow wavelength
of light.
A 2009 map,
made by
using lasers to measure subtle differences in elevation, reveals the circular shape
of the fort (circled in red).
The four - foot - tall cylindrical observer
uses cameras and
lasers to
make a map
of its surroundings, then scouts the area for a target robot.
That is what
makes the
use of LiDAR, the light detection and ranging technology, so exciting, said Juan Carlos Fernandez - Diaz,
laser operator and electronics engineer at the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping, based at the University of Houston, T
laser operator and electronics engineer at the National Center for Airborne
Laser Mapping, based at the University of Houston, T
Laser Mapping, based at the University
of Houston, Texas.
Steele and colleagues
used Raman spectroscopy — a technique that scatters
laser light off a substance to identify its structure and chemical
make - up — to pinpoint the MMC in the rocks with a precision
of around 360 nanometres.
One
of the secrets to
making tiny
laser devices such as opthalmic surgery scalpels work even more efficiently is the
use of tiny semiconductor particles, called quantum dots.
Using the Washington University technique, called compressed ultrafast photography (CUP), Wang and his colleagues have
made movies
of the images they took with single
laser shots
of four physical phenomena:
laser pulse reflection, refraction, faster - than light propagation
of what is called non-information, and photon racing in two media.
There are still ways to
make the hypothesis work: a megastructure swarm might radiate its gathered energy away as radio or
laser signals instead
of heat; it might not form a spherical swarm but a ring precisely aligned with our line
of sight; it might
use technology beyond our understanding
of physics that emits no heat at all.
Researchers at the National Institute
of Standards and Technology (NIST) have put this hydrogen «cure» to practical
use,
making optical fibers that transmit stable, high - power ultraviolet
laser light for hundreds
of hours.
The size
of these atmospheric waves
makes them easy to observe with radar and Lidar, a radar - like system
using laser light to scan the atmosphere.
The briefest man -
made events, pulses
of laser light lasting millionths
of a nanosecond, can be
used for delicate eye surgery, high - bandwidth communications and stop - motion studies
of molecules reacting
In recent years, the lab has developed and expanded upon its method to
make graphene foam by
using a commercial
laser to transform the top layer
of an inexpensive polymer film.
A large quality factor translates into a high level
of synchronization between the atoms and the
lasers used to probe them, and
makes the clock's «ticks» pure and stable for an unusually long time, thus achieving higher precision.
Rice scientists
made this supercapacitor with interlocked «fingers»
using a
laser and writing the pattern into a boron - infused sheet
of polyimide.
This strategy
makes use of the intense electric fields associated with pulsed, high - energy
laser beams to accelerate electrons and protons to «relativistic» velocities (i.e. speeds approaching that
of light).
Researchers can bump electrons out
of aluminum and iron
using lasers,
making them transparent to certain frequencies
of light — an advance that could be important in light - based computing.
Converging Disciplines For most
of the past 40 years, ultrafast -
laser researchers — those who focus on
making and
using the shortest pulses — largely ignored the pulse phase and the theoretical comblike spectrum
of an ideal series
of pulses.
The researchers
made their discovery by obtaining spectroscopic measurements
of S0 - 2
using W. M. Keck Observatory's OH - Suppressing Infrared Imaging Spectrograph (OSIRIS) and
Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics.
The
use of lasers and the complexity
of the material may
make the technology too expensive to be viable, he says.
The researchers
used lasers to
make highly accurate measurements
of the speed
of individual atoms moving in a gas.
Axel Huebl, who joined the team a year after Burau, has pushed the code to
make optimal
use of all
of Titan's GPUs, winning him time on Titan through DOE's Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program for his PhD research on
laser - driven radiation therapy
of cancer.
Praveen Arany at the National Institute
of Dental and Craniofacial Research in Bethesda, Maryland, and his colleagues wondered if they could
use lasers and stem cells to provide a longer - lasting solution, because
lasers can
make other tissue types regenerate.
Using flashes
of unfocused
laser light, the scientists are
making genetically altered headless fruit flies walk, jump, flap their wings, and fly.
«I'm coming from accelerator research and
laser physics, and what my team and I have been looking at is how we
make best
use of the high - power
lasers so they can replace accelerators for applications like treating cancerous tumors,» Bussmann said.
But it's
made with a type
of semiconductor that has the potential to be driven electrically, says Sargent, and it may be possible to
use the electronics already found on microchips to run this
laser in the future.
And on the subject
of tech - nological overkill, avoid
using the
laser pointer at all costs: in a small seminar room it becomes a weapon
of doom,
making the first three rows
of the audience immediate candidates for corneal replacement.
«To
make this fantastic milestone possible took a global collaboration
of scientists —
laser and suspension technology developed for our GEO600 detector was
used to help
make Advanced LIGO the most sophisticated gravitational wave detector ever created,» says Sheila Rowan, professor
of physics and astronomy at the University
of Glasgow.
Latent fingerprints are concealed impressions
of all or one
of the fingers left by an unknown person and
made visible by law enforcement officials
using techniques such as
lasers or powders, often as part
of crime investigations.
Their technique involves
using an accelerated plasma «mirror» that they say can be
made by shooting intense pulses
of laser into plasma — which is basically a cloud
of ionized gas.