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Laser startup garners $50m in funding
News AirFiber is one of a handful of companies developing "free space" optical hardware, which transmits information over fibre-optic lasers in the open air. Several players including Optical Access, fSONA Communications, LightPointe and Plaintree...
[April 5, 2001, 14:09]
Networking tech to sweep the Web
News Executives from Cisco, Foundry Networks and Riverstone Networks say they will also announce this week new optical hardware to improve their families of products for metropolitan networks. At the SuperComm 2001 telecommunications trade show in...
[June 4, 2001, 15:31]
Cisco says sales outlook brightening
News Analysts suggest the spending, though reduced, will increasingly go toward new optical systems, high-speed broadband gear for business customers and hardware for metropolitan areas, rather than older, traditional communications equipment.
[March 7, 2001, 9:21]
Mac OS X - it hits, it misses
News Aside from the internal optical drives, overall hardware support is broad. Some Mac enthusiasts also may be perplexed by the lack of support for CD-RW, DVD and DVD-R drives -- also known as optical drives.
[March 21, 2001, 8:24]
Hammerfall HDSP MADI
Downloads With that, Hammerfall DSP MADI offers the most powerful router/mixer ever implemented on a PCI card, and allows much more than a usage as pure computer I/O unit: MADI optical patchbay and router MADI coaxial/optical or vice versa converter and...
[December 10, 2006, 7:00]
Dell OptiPlex SX260 review
Reviews In addition, its slow optical drive, integrated graphics, lack of digital video and TV output, and lack of surround-sound and PCI expansion won't make it a natural choice for gaming or multimedia duties.
[February 17, 2003, 9:50]
Sapphire when ready for laser chips
News By combining optical and electrical techniques, they claim that chips made this way can communicate between themselves up to a hundred times faster than those using purely electrical methods. Optical receivers can also be built into the silicon...
[January 8, 2002, 17:45]
Hands on with Apple's new hardware
News The Cube is due to ship next month for $1,799 or $2,299, including Apple's new optical mouse and pro keyboard and a pair of Apple-designed Harman/Kardon speakers. The new Pro mouse is based on an optical mechanism, so users can easily navigate...
[July 20, 2000, 15:26]
Fingerprint reader can help navigation
News Fingerprint scanners typically use a flat sensor made of silicon or glass, depending on whether the device uses electrical differences or an optical image, respectively, to create a biometric. DigitalPersona specialises in using optical sensors to...
[May 6, 2003, 8:56]
ST Micro sees silicon light
News ST Microelectronics announced on Monday that it has discovered a way to efficiently insert optical components onto silicon chips, a breakthrough that opens the door to cheaper, more power-efficient semiconductors.
[October 29, 2002, 8:01]
Microsoft keyboard shows Bluetooth gaps
News Getting a PC to talk Bluetooth to the keyboard and optical mouse requires Microsoft's new Bluetooth stack for Windows XP to be installed. In theory, once drivers for the keyboard and optical mouse have been installed and the Bluetooth transceiver...
[December 10, 2002, 16:00]
IBM focuses on microscopic advances
News The higher level of resolution largely comes from a complex optical system developed by Nion. Washington-based Nion developed the optical elements, while IBM worked on controlling the magnetic fields and managing the microscope.
[August 8, 2002, 7:57]
Windows 7 RC1 made available for download
News Asked how this would affect, by way of example, Linux distributions that are designed to run from flash drives, Painell said that users "could still run that distribution from an optical disk". The omission of another feature — the ability to have...
[April 30, 2009, 14:00]
New standard to speed chip connections
News More speed for HyperTransport may come in the future through the addition of optical technology, said Brian Wong, vice president of communications products at Primarion. Primarion, which develops chip-to-chip connections based on optical fiber...
[January 30, 2003, 13:55]
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Extigy review
Reviews On the front, you'll find optical in, optical out, line in, mike in with hardware-level control and a line/headphones out with hardware-volume control. Installation is ridiculously easy -- a refreshing change from the audio-hardware headaches we've...
[March 10, 2002, 23:00]
Intel looks to fibre-optics to speed chips
Talkback Fibreless optical data transfer mooted http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/emergingtech/0,39020357,39169059,00.htm I think the researchers should look into the new tech described in this article: With the cost of producing LED's signifigantly lower...
[October 12, 2004, 17:06]
Virtual Reality on a Linux Desktop
White Papers This paper discusses a Linux desktop implementation of a near-field virtual environment, the Personal Space Station (PSS), the authors evaluates different hardware platforms by discussing implications each platform has on optical tracking latencies.
[April 3, 2007, 1:00]
IBM claims optical computing breakthrough
News Whereas electronic signals must travel down physical hardware paths in chips, optical signals use the much wider optical spectrum and can travel at the speed of light. Such a fast download is possible because of the use of optical signals instead...
[March 29, 2007, 17:04]
StarDust: A Flexible Architecture for Passive Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks
White Papers This paper proposes a framework, called StarDust, for wireless sensor network localization based on passive optical components. In the StarDust framework, sensor nodes are equipped with optical retro-reflectors.
[August 25, 2007, 1:00]
Vision Express Builds the Future of Innovative, Patient-Based Eye Care on Low-Cost Virtual Grid Technology
White Papers Part of Europe's largest optical retailing group, Vision Express serves more than one million customers annually in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The challenge was to ensure sufficient processing power and storage capacity to manage growing...
[June 30, 2007, 1:00]
