Stephanie vL Henkel

The U.S. Navy Super Hornets are being equipped with a new type of radar made by Raytheon. This technology is a departure from conventional radar in that there is no moving antenna.

Lose the Leads Tekscan and SSI Wireless have teamed up to develop a line of flexible force sensors that require no leads. The basic sensor technology has been on the market for many years and has established itself in the industrial and medical markets in particular.

One problem with every type of eyeglasses, contact lenses, and even the plastic lenses implanted after cataract removal is that they all have a fixed focal length. Auto-focus cameras don't, but they operate on a principle that wouldn't work for a pair of spectacles. Until now.

Magic Spectacles; Lose the Leads; No-Antenna Radar; Get More from a Scan; Safety Net for Miners

No blog reader has called me a bad name so far, but two of you have written taking exception to a couple of my entries. This is good! Rural New Hampshire life can have an isolating effect. This state is a bit like Brigadoon, except that it surfaces every four years (think presidential primaries)...more >>

The ceiling collapse in one of Boston's Big Dig tunnels finally won a minute on the national news, about a week after the event. The story's focus, strangely enough, was less on the causes of structural failure and more an exhortation to fight fiscal waste. Today I'll give you a few updates on the...more >>

Getting lost in Boston is easy if A)you're a visitor, or B)you're a native. Hiding out in Boston during work hours and keeping your job as a building inspector is about to become really hard. Or is it?

I know I've annoyed those of you who think RFID technology is the cat's pajamas wherever and however deployed, such as national ID cards and bugs in my pants. I don't like those applications one bit. But I've also pointed out where those chips are not being used but should be. Today I want to bring...more >>

The cry of man overboard! is second only to fire on shipboard! as a general alarm for all hands. But what if no one sees that fellow boater or shipmate (or pet) fall into the drink? The Raymarine (www.raymarine.com) LifeTag system, using Ember's ZigBee (www.zigbee.org) networking technology, does...more >>

The current conflict in Iraq is proving to be a war of amputations. If it's any consolation, an extremely well engineered prosthetic, the Boston Digital Arm (BDA), promises to reproduce much of a lost limb's functionality. The BDA's operating principle has been well demonstrated-the user's...more >>