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Compact Transmissive Sensors

New surface-mount optical sensors increase vertical headroom, enabling more flexible encoder and position-sensing designs across industrial and consumer electronics.
GitHub

Volkopat/VLM-Optical-Encoder

Adapter-based optical compression for long documents using DeepSeek's DeepEncoder with Qwen3-VL-2B. Built on DeepSeek-OCR by DeepSeek-AI. This repo includes deepencoder.py from DeepSeek-OCR ...

17 CES gadgets you can buy right now

Most CES tech is still on the horizon, but these products are already real, priced and (mostly) ready to ship.
IEEE

A Low-Power 8-bit Spintronic Rotary Encoder With Single-Track Gray Code Based on Spin-Hall Effect-Driven Domain Wall Motion

Abstract: This article introduces a low-power spintronic rotary encoder capable of 8-bit analog-to-digital conversion. The proposed encoder leverages spin-Hall effect-driven domain wall motion ...
El Paso Times

Special Eyes Optical Highlights Critical Safety Differences in “Polycarbonate vs. Trivex: Choosing the Safest Lenses for Kids”

When it comes to children’s eyewear, safety is non-negotiable. In a new educational article titled Polycarbonate vs. Trivex: Choosing the Safest Lenses for Kids, Special Eyes Optical—Texas’s only ...
marktechpost

Meta AI Open-Sourced Perception Encoder Audiovisual (PE-AV): The Audiovisual Encoder Powering SAM Audio And Large Scale Multimodal Retrieval

Perception Encoder, PE, is the core vision stack in Meta’s Perception Models project. It is a family of encoders for images, video, and audio that reaches state of the art on many vision and audio ...
IEEE

Absolute optical encoder using a reference–incremental fused signal

Abstract: This paper proposes an absolute positioning method for distance encoding by fusing reference signals with incremental signals. Reference marks with extinction characteristics are embedded in ...