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Technology News Highlights 2008 p4 of 6:

• 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.
• Caltech bioengineers develop "Microscope on a Chip"
  JULY 31, 2008--Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech; Pasadena, CA, USA) have developed a supercompact high-resolution microscope, small enough to fit on a finger tip.
• Vision-guided laser welding automation systems support battery manufacturing
  JULY 15, 2008--Automation Engineering Incorporated (Wilmington, MA, USA) is delivering multiple FlexLase laser welding stations to a producer of battery cells for hybrid and plug-in electric vehicles.
• Image processing and fuzzy logic to automate cancer detection
  JULY 14, 2008--Technology that will make it possible to semi-automate the process for detecting cancerous tumors more precisely is being developed by researchers at the University of Hertfordshire.
• Algorithm estimates geographic location of images
  JULY 11, 2008--Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA, USA) have devised the first computerized method that can analyze a single photograph and determine where the image likely was taken.
• Simultaneous framing/streak camera visualizes nanoscale biomedical events
  JULY 2, 2008--Recording simultaneous, ultrafast two-dimensional (2-D) and time-resolved images is of significant interest to scientists in a growing number of fields.

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