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Jan/Feb 2012  

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Video feed via your contact lens

The digital world is about to get extremely up-close and personal for those who wear the new iOptik contact lens produced by Innovega Inc., Bellevue, Wash. In January, the company announced it intends to accelerate delivery of designs, components and licenses for the technology to selected strategic partners.

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Prescription for medical expansion

MICROmanufacturing Senior Editor Alan Richter recently met with representatives from Dynomax Inc., Wheeling, Ill., to discuss the company's recent expansion. Dynomax, which is targeting the medical device market for growth, has added two new facilities in the past 2 years. The company's headquarters in Wheeling, Ill., and the new Lincolnshire, Ill., facility gives Dynomax four locations throughout the Northwest suburbs of Chicago.

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Blog simplifies 3-D chip technology

Recently posted to the Applied Materials Blog, this 5-minute video vignette simplifies the terms and concepts of 3-D semiconductor chips. The Applied Materials Blog is global discussion site that encourages those in the industry to share their ideas, actions and products.

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Electronic circuitry takes a quantum leap down in size

Bent Weber, a doctoral student in the ARC Center of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, has developed a conductive silicon wire that is one atom tall and just four atoms wide—yes, the smallest such wire ever made, according to a university news release issued Jan. 6.

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Spray-on nanotube aids skin-like sensor device

Stanford University researchers recently demonstrated a new stretchable, transparent skin-like sensor developed using carbon nanotubes that bend and act as springs, according to a university news release. The flexible sensor "can be stretched to more than twice its original length and bounce back perfectly to its original shape," the researchers reported.

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