Institute of Dynamics and Vibration Research (IDS)

Chinese police use facial recognition glasses

Chinese police are using facial recognition software combined with advanced optics and networking to recognise suspects even in crowded subways and shopping malls.

Novarum DX

Technology Analyst Dr Laura Baers spoke with Dr Niall McLaren, Business Development Manager at Novarum DX, about their mobile reader solution for turning smartphones into diagnostic tools and the increasing importance of connectivity in the diagnostics market.

Xerox printed memory product featuring Thinfilm's technology

Manufactured via a printing process, Xerox® Printed Memory adds low-cost intelligence to objects or packaging by printing thin circuitry on a flexible substrate.

Thinfilm launches printed memory for secure documents

Thinfilm launches printed memory for secure documents and high-volume consumer applications. Thin Film Electronics have launched the Thinfilm Passive Array Memory, a fully printed non-volatile rewriteable memory suitable for secure documents. The capacity is doubled compared to Thinfilm's standard memory.

Real Time Locating Systems Using Passive Tags - High Volume RTLS?

Passive radar is a term applied to radar that covertly employs other people's emissions as they reveal targets, no signal being emitted by those doing the covert detection. This has military uses. It is not to be confused with Real Time Locating System RTLS using passive tags, a new form of RFID-based RTLS that has burst onto the scene in 2008. This employs passive tags instead of the traditional active tags. The idea is actually about ten years old and it was mooted as a UHF system by Trolleyscan who called it RFID Radar and demonstrated by RFSAW, which uses Surface Acoustic Wave chips that are more sensitive and simpler to make than the silicon chips used by everyone else - active and passive.