Panasonic’s New Ultra-Accurate 3D Profilometer

Panasonic's New Ultra-Accurate 3D Profilometer (Images behavior Panasonic)
By fear Liszewski

On the correct it haw countenance aforementioned a non-descript industrial box, but Panasonic’s infant ultra-accurate 3D profilometer has some pretty awesome profession to disquietude most on the inside. Thanks to a specially-developed infant enquiry the methodicalness crapper manoeuvre the opencast of 3D objects, including atomlike pores at diminutive 50µm in diameter, with an calibre of ±0.15µm. When the goal is cosmos ‘profiled’ the enquiry touches it with a obligate of foregather 0.3mN, which is the equal to the invoke of obligate caused by a mosquito landing, and the measurements are conducted at a alacritous pace of 2mm per second.

Other advancements allow improved anti-vibration action thanks to Panasonic’s ambiance psychopathology technology, since you don’t poverty the enquiry peppy around when it’s doing careful measurements, and an coverall low indicant making the methodicalness most 50% small than its predecessor. The infant 3D profilometer module be acquirable for meet play in Oct in Japan, and is due to be quite favourite in the agitated and electronics industries where high-precision components are essential.

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Inscrutable QuantumGravity Watch

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By Evan Ackerman

This is the Quantum Concord C Lab QuantumGravity watch. I don’t know how it works, and neither does anyone else, but it certainly looks, um, intriguing. I also have no idea how you tell what time it is; I can only assume that there are some bits (like the external case) missing from this picture.

The one feature of this watch that we do know about is an aerial bi-axial Tourbillon mechanism, which is a gizmo that allows the important bits of the watch to freely rotate to keep them properly aligned with respect to gravity as the watch moves. Very cool, but it’s probably not as accurate as the waterproof solar powered atomic syncing watch that Casio gave out for free at its press conference (our lucky reader zedd zero is getting one of those in the mail), but for a purely mechanical watch, I’d imagine it does a pretty good job.

More details (and probably a price with a whole bunch of zeroes on the end) will be released March 26th; in the mean time, you can imagine how unpleasant the 48mm diameter case with a 22mm diameter depth would feel on your wrist and how you don’t really want one anyway.

[ Watchluxus ] VIA [ DVICE ]

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South Korean scientists get one step closer to graphene-based gadgets

Graphene-based gadgets are coming, we just know it. Trouble is, we’re still a long, long ways away. That said, a team of South Korean scientists are bringing us ever closer to bendable, durable gizmos by creating a graphene film with a diameter of 10 centimeters by “adopting a conventional chemical vapor deposition (CVD) technique.” Furthermore, the crew’s development of what’s being called the “world’s first circuit patterning technology for the graphene film has the potential to replace silicon-based semiconductors.” If this is just way too heavy for your mind to digest on a Friday, here’s the skinny: the newfangled manufacturing process has, for all intents and purposes, overcome the limitations of graphene, which could not be made large enough for commercial applications in the past.

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USC develops flexible, transparent TFT prototype for high-tech temporary tattoos


USC researchers have demonstrated a low-temperature (and therefore relatively inexpensive, apparently) process for printing transparent TFTs on flexible material able to bend up to 120 degrees which allows for embedding LED to build see-through displays. The prototype disc shown above is 5 inches in diameter and contains around 20,000 nanotube transistors. The researchers suggest the technology could be used for e-paper, smart tags, and artificial skin, as well as an affordable heads-up display that could be put into car windshields. Our suggestion? Couple it with transparent playing cards for the ultimate poker-cheating experience.

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