Valve will ship its Steam machine prototypes with copies of 4A Games' shooter Metro: Last light. It follows 4A's pledge for Metro: Last Light to support SteamOS. Now, Valve will ship Steam machine ...

Makers, developers and electron enthusiasts might be interested to know that a new Liquid Crystal Light Valve or otherwise known as a controllable LCD blackout panel is now available from the online ...

"The real advantages of electrowetting valves are transmission efficiency and potential manufacturing cost savings," Jason Heikenfeld of Extreme Photonix told Optics.org. "[Unlike LCDs] electrowetting ...

This week’s Retrotechtacular is a 1943 Encyclopædia Britannica film focusing on optical sound reproduction for motion pictures. Both the sound and the images are recorded on film, which is only ...

The recent business downturn has put significant pressure on makers of optical gear to reduce costs while simultaneously improving performance. Fiber-optic networks are also becoming more complex and ...

Optical microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) devices are driving the trend toward all-optical telecommunication networks. With the ability to directly manipulate an optical signal, MEMS have several ...

Something to look forward to: Valve confirmed months ago that more versions of the Steam Deck would eventually arrive, but offered no details on how they would differ from the company's freshman model ...

This is a light valve sound recorder designed and built by Eugene Augstin Lauste during his experimentation with sound-on-film technology ca. 1904-1913. This original piece was used to record sound on ...