Which laser measure is best? You may remember helping your dad hold a measuring tape when you were younger. You also may remember how he kept yelling at you to hold it straighter, even though it ...

Understanding how to read a tape measure is crucial for any home or professional project. Tracking multiple measurements and keeping the equipment in top-performance shape can often be a challenge.

The novel LIDAR ("light detection and ranging") system could have applications from precision manufacturing lines on Earth to maintaining networks of satellites in perfect formation, creating a giant ...

A new chip-scale laser developed by researchers in the lab of engineering professor Qiang Lin can conduct extremely fast and accurate measurements by very precisely changing its color across a broad ...

Researchers have been developing a laser power sensor that could be built into manufacturing devices for real-time measurements in many manufacturing processes, from welding car parts to crafting ...

Here's one way to make your iPhone more useful: Lasers. Simply plug the iPin Spatial Ruler into your iPhone, download the app, you have your own laser measuring device. iPin iPin's first product was a ...

Researchers in Europe have developed a technique for obtaining accurate laser-based measurements of objects hidden behind complex scattering structures. They say that their mathematical formula, which ...

A group of researchers at NIST working with engineers from Colorado-based Scientech has developed a new approach to measuring laser power using a mirror and a scale. This method, which measures the ...