{"id":3020,"date":"2014-09-19T12:29:55","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T17:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3020"},"modified":"2014-09-19T12:56:24","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T17:56:24","slug":"new-technology-could-make-our-smartphones-even-smarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/new-technology-could-make-our-smartphones-even-smarter\/","title":{"rendered":"New technology could make our smartphones even smarter<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3033\" style=\"width: 570px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/image008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3033\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3033\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/image008.jpg\" alt=\"Transparent smartphone application to obtain information in the real world. (Photo credit: J\u00e9r\u00f4me Lapointe)\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/image008.jpg 560w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/image008-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3033\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Transparent smartphone application to obtain information in the real world. (Photo credit: J\u00e9r\u00f4me Lapointe)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Engineers have created a laser-written light-guiding systems that could embed the display glass of smartphones with layer upon layer of sensors.<\/p>\n<p>One\u00a0example-system that the authors created is a temperature sensor that consists of one straight and one curved waveguide. When the glass heats up, it expands and changes the path length of the waveguides. By measuring how the light that emerges from one waveguide interferes with light from the other, the device can measure the temperature of anything it touches.<\/p>\n<p>This technology could be applied to glass now used in most smartphones.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opticsinfobase.org\/oe\/abstract.cfm?uri=oe-22-13-15473\" target=\"_blank\">Original research paper<\/a><\/span>\u00a0published in the\u00a0<em>Optics Express<\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span>on\u00a0<strong>September 17, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Raman Kashyap, Polytechnique Montr\u00e9al, Quebec<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Engineers have created a laser-written light-guiding systems that could embed the display glass of smartphones with layer upon layer of sensors. One\u00a0example-system that the authors created is a temperature sensor that consists of one straight and one curved waveguide. When the glass heats up, it expands and changes the path length of the waveguides. 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