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Technology News Highlights 2005 p1 of 3:

• 1394-equipped cameras highlight annual VISION Show in Stuttgart
  NOVEMBER 30--A new set of 1394b-equipped industrial cameras from leading global vendors were highlighted at the 2005 VISION Show in Stuttgart, Germany, earlier this month.
• Nanorobot fabrication makes ultrasmall IR cameras possible
  OCTOBER 28--Researchers working with the Office of Naval Research have developed a way to build extremely small sensors using nanorobot fabrication.
• Power over Ethernet is coming to market
  OCTOBER 12--Only two years have passed since the Power over Ethernet standard was ratified, and yet enterprises and business all over the world have been eager to adopt this new technology.
• Autoliv redesigns its night vision system for the automotive industry
  SEPTEMBER 27--The night vision system from Autoliv Inc. (Stockholm, Sweden; www.autoliv.com) has been redesigned, and the new camera system contains several innovations.
• Trestle receives Notice of Allowance for US patent on ROI detection for digital slide scanning
  SEPTEMBER 26--Trestle Holdings Inc. (Irvine, CA; www.trestlecorp.com), a supplier of digital imaging systems for pathology and telemedicine applications, has received a Notice of Allowance from the United States Patent and Trademark Office for its patent application entitled System and Method for Finding Regions of Interest for Microscopic Digital Montage Imaging.
• 2006 PC/104 embedded design contest
  SEPTEMBER 21--The PC/104 Embedded Consortium is holding its PC/104 Embedded Design Contest to allow users of the technology to showcase their applications.
• Drive for robot autonomy key trend in global emerging robotics technology
  SEPTEMBER 19--Researchers are directing their efforts toward incorporating greater autonomy to enable robots to make more coherent decisions independently. Besides being incapable of survival in an outdoor environment, robots cannot make decisions out of the matrix of choices available in their internal programs.
• Machine vision helps search for contaminants in wheat
  SEPTEMBER 14--A new computer program devised by British physicists can quickly spot tiny beetles, rodent droppings, and ergot (a poisonous mold) in grain destined for flour and bread manufacture.
• User's skepticism toward new technologies remains a challenge for automation-software vendors
  SEPTEMBER 6--Automation-software vendors in Europe face a challenging task ahead as they try to convince end users across various industries to replace legacy programmable logic controllers with the more sophisticated software-based systems such as human machine interface and supervisory control and data acquisition.
• Space Agency to speak about using thermography in Shuttle applications
  SEPTEMBER 2--FLIR Systems (Boston, MA) has announced that NASA (Washington, DC; history.nasa.gov/) will present a paper at the annual InfraMation Conference in Las Vegas, NV, October 17-21, 2005.

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