06/12/2001 
Using MEMS and microsystems, the latest generation of dropsondes provides real-time readings of a storm's vital signs. "This technology allows us to make measurements that we never could before," said one meteorologist.

06/08/2001 
Small technology was a featured player at a gala performance that demonstrated the industry's future in everything from nanoskin aircraft coating to cool cars. And, yes, NASA brought along Oscar, the wisecracking robot.

06/07/2001 
The playboy days are over for Small Tech. Now, it needs to choose a partner, defining how if not with whom it wants to make its destiny, industry experts say.

05/29/2001 

Spinoffs from national labs are transferring weapons-based technology into such non-military applications as drug detection, medical delivery and environmental sensing.

05/22/2001 

Researchers are developing techniques to make diamond films that far outshine many materials used in MEMS. When they're commercially available, they'll look attractive to makers of nanomachines. But they're not flawless.

05/20/2001 

Micromachines, because of their size, are naturally capable of taking a beating. Still, they have many enemies, from humidity to electrostatic shock.

05/16/2001 

05/04/2001 

MEMS mascots bug some as small tech industry looks to the future.

05/02/2001 

World auto industry turns to small tech monitors to make tires safer and more energy efficient.

04/25/2001 

Reiner Wechsung has a fast-growing company and more promising products being developed.

04/20/2001 

Earth Day 2001 finds scientists using MEMS to clean the water, monitor the air, avoid toxic spills.

12/05/2000  Burlington, Massachusetts--Standard MEMs, Inc. and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Center for Automation Technologies have teamed up to create a joint micropackaging research and development (R&D) program that will focus on developing and prototyping state-of-the-art micromanufacturing technologies.