Imagine a portable 3D printer you could hold in the palm of your hand. The tiny device could enable a user to rapidly create customized, low-cost objects on the go, like a fastener to repair a wobbly ...

Researchers in France have developed a new type of optical printer that produces digital 3-D holograms with what they call “an unprecedented level of detail and realistic color.” The printer can make ...

Grafton is a pioneering designer of lenses for optical printers. Beginning in the 1970s, his work permitted the seamless blending of images from multiple sources. Printers incorporating his ...

Avago Technologies, the world's largest privately held semiconductor company, today introduced an enhanced series of cost-competitive ultra-small optical encoder modules with resolutions of up to 360 ...

The NORC’s I/O facilities, such as punched cards, magnetic tape, and line printers, were typical of the era. But the NORC also had an ultra-high-speed optical printer.