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Square Gas Discharge Tube

Littelfuse, Inc., Chicago, IL, annnounces the SE Series of Gas Discharge Tube (GDT) devices in a miniature EIA 1206 package, making it the smallest GDT device on the market. The ultra-low capacitance helps ensure high...

digiVIT, Digital Inductive Displacement Sensor

Kaman Precision Products, Colorado Springs, CO, introduces the first eddy current sensor for position/displacement/ proximity sensing with a self tuning bridge, eliminating the need to connect to a...

Embedded GUI Development Tools

Express Logic, San Diego, CA, introduces GUIX™, a new graphical user interface (GUI) development framework. GUIX is a small-footprint, low-overhead runtime engine and development tool that targets the ARM...

PCM4806E Encoder-Ready IDEA Drive

Haydon Kerk Motion Solutions, Waterbury, CT, announces its latest addition to the IDEA Drive™ line of sophisticated stepper motor controllers. The RoHS-compliant PCM4806E drive allows an encoder input to the...

EOS NickelAlloy HX

EOS, Novi, MI, is expanding its portfolio of additive manufacturing metals with NickelAlloy HX. The heatand corrosion-resistant nickel- chrome-iron-molybdenum alloy has a high degree of strength and resistance to oxidization,...

Volvo CE’s New Short Swing Radius Excavator

With a weight of 2.5 ton (2.3 t), the ECR25D compact excavator from Volvo Construction Equipment achieves greater breakout and tearout forces—8453 lb (38 kN) combined—than the 2.8-ton...

First NC/NO Tactile Pushbutton Switches

MEC, an APEM Inc. company, Vista, CA, is launching its Multimec® 5 Series NC/NO switches, the market’s first NC/NO tactile pushbutton switch, to simplify design, increase functionality, and enhance...

Tighter Communications Help OEMs Meet Tighter Regulations

As regulations including Tier 4 further restrict fuel consumption requirements, design teams are tightening the links between powertrains and hydraulic systems. Improving...

Cost-Effective, Electrically and Thermally Conductive, Two Component Epoxies

Suitable for a wide range of industries including electronics, appliances, automotive, and telecommunications, these silver coated nickel filled epoxies feature...

Multi-Power Cylinders

The Multi-Power® Cylinder has multiple pistons attached to a common rod with internal air passages thus allowing much higher forces without having to use a bulky, larger bore cylinder or high-pressure hydraulics....

Original Pancake Cylinder

The Original Pancake® Air Cylinder was designed in 1958 by Alfred W. Schmidt, the founder of Fabco-Air, Inc. This particular type of pneumatic actuator was designed to satisfy the need for short stroke, low profile,...

Miniaturized, Portable Sensors Monitor Metabolic Health

NASA Technology On Earth, gravity might weigh you down, but it also builds you up. For astronauts working in space for long durations, the weightless environment can cause a host of...

Patient Simulators Train Emergency Caregivers

NASA Technology Medical training is one of the most important aspects of preparing astronauts for space. Every crewmember must become proficient in basic emergency skills, such as CPR, ventilation,...

Solar Refrigerators Store Life-Saving Vaccines

NASA Technology Over the years, NASA has advanced photovoltaic (PV) technology in order to advance many of its missions. This renewable source of energy is produced when certain “photoemissive”...

Innovative Software Tools Measure Behavioral Alertness

NASA Technology For astronauts working aboard the International Space Station (ISS) in low-Earth orbit, getting adequate sleep is a challenge. For one, there’s that demanding and often...

Simulation Tools Prevent Signal Interference on Spacecraft

NASA Technology Launching a satellite into space requires painstaking preparation, not only to make sure that a multitude of technologies are functioning, but also to ensure that...

Oxygen Sensors Monitor Bioreactors and Ensure Health and Safety

NASA Technology In the mid-1990s scientists at NASA Kennedy Space Center were experimenting with an unusual substance: cow digestive bacteria. Could it break down leftover dead...

Mars Technologies Spawn Durable Wind Turbines

NASA Technology “It all started with ecological life support systems for exploration,” says David Bubenheim, a senior research scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center. Sometimes referred to...

Handheld Diagnostic Device Delivers Quick Medical Readings

NASA Technology In a 1962 speech, President John F. Kennedy said, “We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are...

Brainwave Monitoring Software Improves Distracted Minds

NASA Technology Imagine moving an object using only your mind. Software company Unique Logic’s Time on Task exercise makes that feat possible, at least on a computer screen. The game,...

Reactors Save Energy, Costs for Hydrogen Production

NASA Technology When flying, do you ever wonder how the electronics—lights, air vents, or WiFi—continue to function as you glide across the sky? Commercial aircraft supply their own power...

Vision Algorithms Catch Defects in Screen Displays

NASA Technology NASA has sent more than a few robotic missions into space, but it never loses sight of its goal to enable human exploration of the cosmos. A core component of planning for...

NASA-Enhanced Water Bottles Filter Water on the Go

NASA Technology Thanks to NASA bscience missions, researchers are finding that water may be more plentiful in space than we previously believed. The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing...

Coatings Preserve Metal, Stone, Tile, and Concrete

NASA Technology As numerous achievements have taken place in space over the last 50-plus years, a number of innovations have simultaneously taken place on the ground. For example, Jack Triolo,...

Monitors Enable Medication Management in Patients’ Homes

NASA Technology To build a small and mobile monitoring and processing system for use onboard the station to capture, store, and transmit sensor data about astronauts back to Earth,...

Robots Spur Software That Lends a Hand

NASA Technology Robonaut 2 flew aboard Space Shuttle Discovery to the International Space Station (ISS) in early 2011, but its development has been many years in the making. In 1997, Johnson Space Center...

Programs Visualize Earth and Space for Interactive Education

NASA Technology Incredible sights are being seen, thanks to the development of technology both inside and outside of NASA. With just a few clicks, NASA’s Eyes on the Earth web...

Satellite Data Aid Monitoring of Nation’s Forests

NASA Technology Joe Spruce’s last name is a fitting one: Spruce is a research scientist at NASA’s Stennis Space Center working with the US Department of Agriculture Forest Service to...

Catalytic Converters Maintain Air Quality in Mines

NASA Technology In the 1980s, Langley Research Center teamed up with the Federal Aviation Administration to develop a technology for the space-based detection of wind shears, which are rapidly...