Related Links: Designer, Jon Atherton's Blog HEX3 Website JaJa Kickstarter ENR tested a new stylus that works with any tablet and could make a fine combination with the Morpholio Trace app.Most tablet stylus pens work via WiFi or Bluetooth technology, but both methods are battery hogs. A new device offers an alternative, communicating with tablets via high-frequency sound and allowing for pressure-sensitive control on touch screens.The JaJa Stylus—designed and built by Brisbane, Australia-based HEX3, funded by a successful Kickstarter campaign and produced by Hex3 Ltd., Hong Kong—adds capability to the iPad and other tablets. Unlike a Wacom drawing tablet, the
Authorities in the northeastern U.S. investigating flood-barrier technologies to block future flooding in subway tunnels have high hopes for one new device.
Courtesy Apperian Fully functional remote control of the iPad is possible through Apperian Labs' mobile device management platform. Related Links: Good Technology Survey The iPad represents more than 60% of the total tablet market, according to Gartner With the Apple iPad’s 97% grip on the market for so-called enterprise-level companies, according to a recent survey, the inability to extend iOS management capability to enterprise IT departments is a cause of concern. But Apple has refused to approve apps that control iOS devices remotely.Now, a mobile application management company is offering an alternative with an IT-industry first: remote control of iOS
A revision sheet from a personal renovation project being managed by one of ENR's editors is pictured. Now, all iterations are on his iPad. Related Links: Plan Grid Bluebeam Revu ThresholdCM An ENR editor renovating his apartment and overseeing construction had only a few moments to prove a point to his contractor. The critical information was available in the first round of project drawings. Luckily, the editor had the plans in hand.Keeping plans handy is exactly what Plan Grid 2.0 aims to do. For desktop and iPad, the new version of the software is distinguished in the crowded marketplace by
Asta shows multiple tasks on one row and can split a task into two, based on its attributes. Related Links: Asta Powerproject: Price Competition RevelPoint: Cloud Competition Vendors of offshore and homegrown construction scheduling and coordination software are popping up in North America, trying to snag market share from Oracle Primavera's P6 software. The insurgents claim that factors such as cloud computing and contractor dissatisfaction have created an opportunity.One newcomer is Asta Powerproject from U.K.-based Asta Development. The software is positioned as a relatively inexpensive, user-friendly tool that caters solely to construction.Fred Plotnick, a construction industry consultant and the operator
Courtesy Infrasense Infrasense's new GPRQA software collects data from a radar mounted on the back of a vehicle, such as this SUV. Related Links: ENR's Past GPR Coverage (10/24/05) A Time When MnDOT Did Not Use GPR Google Maps measures and maps roads, and department of transportation workers measure and map the subsurface quality of those roads. One company’s advance in computing asphalt-pavement density data on-site claims to make DOT workers’ jobs easier.“We have developed … ground-penetrating-radar [GPR] quality-assurance software that can automatically process radar data on-site,” says Kenneth Maser, president of Infrasense Inc., Arlington, Mass. “It covers the entire
Photo Courtesy of Andrew Craft At 2,000 ft, an old communications tower in Elizabethtown, N.C., becomes tallest structure to be felled by explosives. The operation was done at no cost, and proceeds of the scrap metal will go to the Green Beret Foundation. Related Links: Watch the implosion of the structural-steel tower in Elizabethtown, North Carolina. A demolition contractor imploded a 2,000-ft-tall structural-steel tower on Sept. 20 in Elizabethtown, N.C. The structure, the tallest in the U.S. east of the Mississippi River, had been used as a Raycom Media communications tower but became obsolete in 2008 when television station WECT
Related Links: Vizit's Free 30-day Trial Newsgator Document-management software maker Vizit's latest release extends search and collaboration capabilities for users of Microsoft's SharePoint. Giving more visualization to search results, the 5.0 release allows users to search for, jump to and highlight specific words or passages in documents, then share them as a link with other SharePoint users.The software by Seattle-based Vizit displays previews of a select amount of text next to search results, then immediately generates a URL that points to the portion of text and enables it to be shared via SharePoint's news aggregator, Newsgator, and its enterprise social
Related Links: FCC Narrowband Mandate Architectural Record Push-to-talk communication has been around since two-way radio came into use more than 70 years ago. Now, AT&T is putting a new spin on the sub-second communication feature with an enhanced push-to-talk service that can instantly reach up to 250 people simultaneously. It uses Internet Protocol as the conduit instead of radio frequencies.Steve Colkitt, IT director at CourierNet, which beta-tested the service, compares it to Motorola's pioneering iDEN (integrated digital enhanced network) service, which combined two-way radio capabilities with other features, such as pagers and fax/modem. "It's damn near iDEN quality, which no
Related Links: MIT Research on Integrated Circuits Based on Bilayer MoS2 Transistors An Explanation of the Bandgap In lab tests late last month, researchers for the first time successfully used a 2D lubricant material called molybdenum disulfide as a semiconductor, a new application that opens up a range of possibilities for electronic devices.Scientist Madan Dubey at the Army Research Lab says, "[Two-dimensional] material has only length and width. The [molybdenum disulfide's] height is just one molecule." Dubey collaborated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the research. His expert team has the tools to test the quality of the molybdenum
