Word: laser
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hospital network and their digital manipulation to produce detailed images. Kodak sells digital radiology machines and software that manages the diagnostic and other information that accompanies each image. It even posts the bill. Not ready to go fully digital? No problem: Kodak will sell you bridging devices--like laser printers to transfer the picture to film. The company also provides consulting services, putting KOS into operation to make patient care more efficient. The ultimate goal: to set up information networks for hospitals and entire hospital systems. Kodak says the digital component of its health-care business grew 20% last year...
...afternoon belonged to Corriero. With time winding down in the final minute of the game, Dartmouth pulled Lane for the extra attacker. Who should find a clear shot to the net from Harvard’s own zone but Corriero, who fired a laser into the back of the net for her fifth and final goal of the night...
...says??there's??no??such??thing??as??a??eureka??moment? Physicist David Grier sure had one. Grier and graduate student Eric Dufresne were trying to build a new kind of "optical trap"--a device that splits a laser beam and uses it to capture particles of a single substance. They knew that multiple traps, used in tandem, could let scientists play traffic cops on a molecular level, separating a substance into component parts--removing bacteria from blood, for example. For a year, Grier and Dufresne had been trying out fancy glass splitters, but nothing had done the trick...
That aha! has paid off. Soon afterward, in 2000, Grier co-founded Arryx, an optical-equipment company whose laser gear can grab, trap and move minute particles of just about anything. The firm expects to make a profit this year--impressive progress for a biotech start-up. Arryx is one of 29 "Technology Pioneers" chosen by the World Economic Forum, the Geneva-based nonprofit organization best known for its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, which opens this year on Jan. 26. Others on the pioneers list--including technologists in the fields of energy, biotech and information--have become entrepreneurs...
...yourself enthusiasts, the laser level, which uses a beam of light to tell you when something's exactly horizontal or vertical, is the season's hottest new gadget for the toolbox. These high-tech levels are useful for hanging pictures, putting up shelves or hanging wallpaper without having to mark up your walls with pencil lines, which are necessary with old-fashioned manual levels. But beware: some models stick to the wall with tape or pins that leave holes or marks that are just as annoying to cover up as pencil. Look for levels that mount with a suction...