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Technology News Highlights 2008 p2 of 5:

• Bar-code readers help recycle cans
  AUGUST 29, 2008--The Danish company Anker Andersen (Toerring, Denmark; www.anker-andersen.com) specializes in automation for brewing machinery, industrial plants, recycling systems, and vending machines.
• High-speed imaging aids woodpecker hunt
  AUGUST 28, 2008--Cornell University (Ithaca, NY, USA; www.birds.cornell.edu/ivory) staff created a virtual ivory bill to model the flight of the elusive bird, for comparison with brief film of the bird in flight.
• New kernel methods increase remote sensing accuracy
  AUGUST 27, 2008--The support vector machine (SVM) kernel method has been successfully used in hyperspectral image classification. Nevertheless, SVMs must be adapted to the specific needs of the field.
• Fast, in-line instrument tests digital camera lenses
  AUGUST 26, 2008--A new ultrafast, automated wavefront analyzer can reliably test micro-lens wafers, at a rate of several seconds per lens, ensuring quality control in micro-optics manufacturing.
• Removing shadows from hyper-spectral images
  AUGUST 25, 2008--Edward Ashton at VirtualScopics (Rochester, NY; www.virtualscopics.com) is developing a method to identify shadows in a scene and hence appropriately adjust the illumination level and color to better match similar materials in non-shadowed regions.
• Software uses sound and vision for memory aid
  AUGUST 22, 2008--The technology, nicknamed "PENSIEVE" by the IBM team, uses associative recall to make connections between pieces of related data acquired by a person.
• Wheelchair uses laser measurement system for auto-navigation
  AUGUST 21, 2008--The ATRS is designed so that the driver or passenger seat is lowered from the vehicle at the same time a wheelchair storage unit is unloaded from the rear of the vehicle.
• X-ray microscope yields super-resolution images
  AUGUST 19, 2008--A new super-resolution x-ray microscope developed by a team of researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institut and EPFL combines the high penetration power of x-rays with high spatial resolution.
• QinetiQ completes first UK UAV flight for crop imaging
  AUGUST 8, 2008--QinetiQ (London, UK) has successfully completed the UK's first flight of an autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle for agricultural monitoring.
• Machine vision sorts produce at self-service checkout
  AUGUST 4, 2008--Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Information and Data Processing IITB (Karlsruhe, Germany) have developed a webcam module for self-service scales.

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