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MEMS

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Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems, the integration of mechanical elements, sensors, actuators and electronics, onto teeny, tiny devices promises an era of lighter-weight products for every industry and application from security to energy to health to environment. Draper Laboratory, a recent immigrant to Tampa Bay, is leading the charge.

MEMS Features

Hot Ideas Make Creative Minds Sizzle At Tampa Bay's coolTECH 2010

Scattered all across the Tampa Bay region -- in office parks, on college campuses, in home workshops and garages, perhaps even next door to you -- some of the world's coolest new technology is being envisioned, developed through trial and error, and adapted for practical use in business and industry as well as for personal assistance and play. Many examples were on display June 4 at the Tampa Bay Technology Forum's coolTECH 2010.read on…

Will FL's Pasco County Rival CA's Silicon Valley?

Dais Analytic, a Pasco County nanotechnology company, is taking clean, green solutions across the globe, from mostly rural Odessa, just north of Tampa, to some of the world's most urban regions of China. The anticipated success of the energy and water innovator could also take Tampa Bay to a new place economically.read on…

Q&A: Len Polizzotto, Draper Laboratory

Draper Laboratory, an MIT spin-off based in Cambridge, MA, and pioneer in the development of MEMS technologies for 25 years, opened facilities in October at the University of South Florida in Tampa and in St. Petersburg. Dr. Len Polizzotto, principal director of strategic business development, talks with 83 Degrees about Draper's expansion into Florida.

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