Today’s smart phones make Star Trek’s communicators seem unimaginative. Of course, the opposite is true. Imagination is at the heart of the inspired technology we enjoy. While Kirk’s flip-phone may have already gone out of style, we shouldn’t get cocky. Spock’s tricorder still looks like magic to us today, the way flip-phones and automatic doors once did.
To glimpse how close we are to that tricorder, and to see the cutting-edge innovations in 
several related fields, check out the Sensors Expo and Conference at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, California from June 9-11, 2015. Continue reading “The Sensors and Automation Systems Industry Gathering in Long Beach”