IMRE

The above image of Playboy model Lena Söderberg, ubiquitous to image processing experiments, was used to highlight the refined color detail that the new method achieves

Science

Researchers produce ink and dye-free 100,000 DPI images

Researchers at Singapore's IMRE have developed a new method for creating sharp, full-spectrum color images at 100,000 dots per inch (DPI) without need of ink or dyes.

Optical microscope picture of an antenna structure with nano-antennas built into its center that produce stronger and more efficient T-rays

Science

New T-ray technology could help enable Star Trek-style “tricorders”

Scientists have developed a new way of creating stronger more efficient Terahertz (THz) or T-rays, which they say could help make handheld devices with tricorder-like capabilities a reality.

A new process using table salt increases the data storage density of HDDs by six times (Image: Kamil Porembski via Flickr)

Computers

How to increase the data storage density of HDDs - just add salt

A team of researchers from Singapore has developed a process that uses table salt to increase the data storage density of conventional HDDs by up to six times.

Wellness & Healthy Living

Easy-to-produce plastic microneedles offer pain-free injections

August 19, 2008 Singapore’s A*STAR continues to put the country on the technology map, this time with the news that the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) has perfec

Photography

Liquid lens mimics the human eye

August 19, 2005 Taking a leaf from Mother Nature, scientists at A*STAR’s Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) in Singapore have developed tiny