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Technology News Highlights 2001 p2 of 6:

• Automated inspection saves casino money
  NOVEMBER 15--Late last year, vision systems designers at Vision 1 (Bozeman, MT; www.vision1.com) were presented with a demanding and interesting challenge--to develop a system to inspect casino coins.
• IEEE 1394-FireWire-i.LINK support for Windows XP enables range of applications
  NOVEMBER 14--The 1394 Trade Association (www.1394ta.org) is sponsoring demonstrations of Windows XP operating system support for IEEE 1394 at the Microsoft Partners Pavilion at Fall Comdex in Las Vegas, NV, this week.
• Bell Labs scientists pave the way for 'nanoelectronics'
  NOVEMBER 9--Scientists from Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs (Murray Hill, NJ) have fabricated an individually addressable transistor whose channel consists of just one molecule.
• PIXIM develops digital imaging platform that uses ARM technology
  NOVEMBER 6-- PIXIM (Mountain View, CA; www.pixim.com), developer of the Digital Pixel System (DPS) image-capture and process technology, has licensed the ARM9E family of microprocessors from ARM (Cambridge, England; www.arm.com), provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC processor solutions, for integration into its digital imaging platform.
• Camera measures color precisely
  OCTOBER 31--Several vendors, such as DVT Corp. (Norcross, GA) and Cognex Corp. (Natick, MA), have announced additions to their smart-camera lines that include models specifically developed for capturing and processing color images.
• LED implant gives hope to opaque-cornea sufferers
  OCTOBER 22--A German research consortium is developing an intraocular microdisplay system that could restore some degree of vision to people who are blind because their corneas have been severely damaged by a chemical burn or an explosion.
• Laser scanning helps US scientists map devastation at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon
  OCTOBER 22--US scientists are using airborne laser swath mapping and ground-based laser scanning to map regions around the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
• Optical imaging technique promises to expose dents and scratches in car bodies
  OCTOBER 22--A new optical technique to detect dents and scratches in car bodies prior to painting has been developed by Germany-based start-up INB Vision, a working group of the University of Magdeburg that commercializes the university's technologies.
• Scientists image material that could improve MRI technologies
  OCTOBER 15--Using a technique similar to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) widely applied by hospitals for medical diagnosis but at a resolution 10,000 times greater, physicists at Northwestern University (Evanston, IL) have gained insight into a high-temperature superconductor that might one day benefit hospital MRI technologies and the patients who rely on them.
• US and Israeli officials use biometric hand readers for increased security
  SEPTEMBER 26--Biometric hand readers from Recognition Systems Inc. (RSI; Campbell, CA) are being used in many airports around the world, including those in San Francisco, CA, and Tel Aviv, Israel, to provide access to restricted areas such as ground operations areas, protecting these areas from criminals who may steal or copy employee access cards.

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