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Sensirion is a leading Swiss high-tech company with headquarters in Staefa near Zurich and sales offices in the USA, Japan, South Korea and China. Its highly skilled team of over...
NASA Spinoff
Spinoff 2010
Health and Medicine
Burnishing Techniques Strengthen Hip Implants
Signal Processing Methods Monitor Cranial Pressure
Ultraviolet-Blocking Lenses Protect, Enhance Vision
Hyperspectral Systems Increase Imaging Capabilities
Transportation
Programs Model the Future of Air Traffic Management
Tail Rotor Airfoils Stabilize...
NASA Spinoff: Medical
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
When compressed air mixes with jet fuel and is ignited in a turbine engine, the temperature can reach 3,000 °F. As a result of this fiery exhaust, the...
NASA Spinoff: Medical
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
When you think of a beating heart, you might assume it beats at regular intervals, but in actuality, velocity and pressure change with every beat, and...
NASA Spinoff: Medical
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
In the 1980s, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) scientists James Stephens and Charles Miller were studying the harmful properties of light in space, as...
NASA Spinoff: Medical
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
While the human eye can see a range of phenomena in the world, there is a larger range that it cannot see. Without the aid of technology, people are...
NASA Spinoff: Transportation
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Try describing the U.S. National Airspace System (NAS), and you will inevitably end up rattling off a series of large numbers. There are more than...
NASA Spinoff: Transportation
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Given the eye-catching nature of space shuttle launches, deep-space imagery, and Mars exploration, it can be easy to forget NASA’s aeronautics...
NASA Spinoff: Aerospace
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
In the late 1970s, general aviation (GA) in the United States was experiencing its heyday. In 1978, as many as 18,000 GA aircraft were produced....
NASA Spinoff: Transportation
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
From the myth of Icarus, who flew too close to the Sun on wings made of wax, to the designs Leonardo da Vinci drew of flying machines that mirrored the...
NASA Spinoff: Transportation
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Anyone who has made a paper airplane knows that folding the wingtips upward makes your plane look better and fly farther, though the reasons for the latter...
NASA Spinoff
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Living in space long term will require a sustainable environment. Plants provide fresh food, clean air, and clean water that will assist this effort, but plants need light...
NASA Spinoff: Green Design & Manufacturing
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
If you are planning a day at your local park or even a weekend camping trip, you would simply pack all the food, drink, and supplies you need. Similarly,...
NASA Spinoff: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
“When you hold a piece of silica aerogel, it feels otherworldly. If you drop it on a table top, it has an acoustic ring to it. It sounds like a crystal...
NASA Spinoff: Green Design & Manufacturing
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
NASA not only peers up to gather information about space; it also peers down to gather information about Earth. As part of the Science Mission Directorate,...
NASA Spinoff
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Buzz Aldrin standing on the stark surface of the Moon. The towering gas pillars of the Eagle Nebula. The rocky, rust-colored expanses of Mars. Among NASA’s...
NASA Spinoff: Green Design & Manufacturing
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Imagine you are about to be dropped in the middle of a remote, inhospitable region—say the Kalahari Desert. What would you want to have with you on your...
NASA Spinoff
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Here on Earth, if your sink springs a leak, you can call in a plumber, or if you’re handy, you can head out to the local hardware store, buy a few...
NASA Spinoff: Green Design & Manufacturing
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Kennedy Space Center’s launch complexes have seen a lot. They have been the starting point for every manned NASA mission, from Mercury to Gemini, through...
NASA Spinoff: Nanotechnology
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Dr. Dennis Morrison, a former scientist at Johnson Space Center, spent part of his 34-year career with NASA performing research on nanomaterials—materials...
NASA Spinoff: Green Design & Manufacturing
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Given the size of our planet and its wealth of resources, it is easy to forget that those resources are finite. As Earth’s human population continues...
NASA Spinoff: Transportation
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
The next time you blow out a candle, watch how the smoke behaves. You will see that it rises first in an even stream. At a certain point, that stream...
NASA Spinoff: Transportation
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Every time a jet engine is started, it goes through a thermal cycle of extreme temperatures, reaching as high as 2,700 °F within the engine’s...
NASA Spinoff: Green Design & Manufacturing
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
In the course of time, circumstance, and coincidence, life sometimes completes some ironic and unlikely circles. During NASA’s early space exploration, a...
NASA Spinoff
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
One of the greatest dangers to aircraft—playing a role in numerous destructive and fatal accidents around the world—comes in the form of droplets of...
NASA Spinoff
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Even though it drops to -279 °F at night and dips to -400 °F inside its deepest craters, the Moon can reach a scorching 260 °F during the day....
NASA Spinoff
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
One of the more remarkable developments in aviation in recent years has been the increasing deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs. Since...
NASA Spinoff
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
When Boris Popov was 8 years old, he took one of his mother’s sheets and some thread, made a parachute, climbed a tree, and jumped. The homemade chute did...
NASA Spinoff: Aerospace
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Greek mythology tells of the inventor Daedalus using wings of his own fashioning to escape from imprisonment on the island of Crete. In 1988, a similar...
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Inside Story: Trends in Packaging and Sterilization
Eurofins Medical Device Testing (MDT) provides a full scope of testing services. In this interview, Eurofins’ experts, Sunny Modi, PhD, Director of Package Testing; and Elizabeth Sydnor, Director of Microbiology; answer common questions on medical device packaging and sterilization.