(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Do you hold the key to solving some gadget mysteries from the last century of U.S. science and technology?

(Nikon Metrology: Leuven, Belgium) -- At archaeological sites, drawing of contexts, sections, and site plans can easily consume a huge part of the total excavation time. For particularly complicated and detailed sites, this can even rise to as much as half of the total project time.

(Laser Design Inc.: Minneapoli

(InnovMetric: Québec City, Canada) -- A talisman is “an object considered to possess magical powers,” and InnovMetric Software has announced that PolyWorks V.

(Renishaw: Gloucestershire, UK) -- Mike Sullivan founded

(AIA: Ann Arbor, MI) -- Sales of machine vision components and systems in North America soared 54 percent in 2010 to nearly $1.8 billion, according to new figures released by the Automated Imaging Association (AIA), the world’s largest machine vision trade group.

(SICK: Minneapolis) -- SICK, a global leader in manufacturing sensors, safety systems, machine vision, and automatic identification products for factory and logistics automation, has launched the

(Thermo Fisher: Waltham, MA) -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., a global leader in serving science, notes that its FT-IR spectrometer instrumentation can provide scientists with increased confidence in their results during quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) testing.

(HEIDENHAIN: Schaumburg, IL) -- HEIDENHAIN Corp. has now coupled its ACANTO absolute length gauge with the established and versatile ND 2100G GAGE-CHEK metrology readouts.

(Mettler-Toledo: Columbus, OH) -- Mettler-Toledo Inc. has introduced Quantos Q2 and QL2 powder- and liquid-dispensing auxiliary modules that can be added to any 0.1 mg or 0.01 mg XP Excellence Series analytical balance.