by stephen | Dec 17, 2021 | Blog
For over 39 years, IRD Glass (“IRD”) has crafted high-quality custom glass and ceramic components for the medical, transport, and defense sectors. IRD is a major supplier to mainstay manufacturers of medical equipment like 3M, Honeywell, Alcon, TDK and Boston...
by stephen | Dec 17, 2021 | Blog
How to Respectfully Refuse Unwanted Handshakes Without Alienating Your Colleagues As the nation slowly begins to re-open, as offices start to come back to life, and as conferences begin to buzz anew, you might be wondering, “How can I practice safe social distancing...
by stephen | Dec 17, 2021 | Blog
IRD Glass creates all the LiDAR components that are essential to the function of these amazing devices — including entrance windows, precision optical filter substrates, beamsplitters and precision optical mirrors. This technology, which was first developed by NASA...
by stephen | Dec 17, 2021 | Blog
Psst! Your fly is unzipped. This is just one potential use of the talking lasers being developed by the Defense Department’s Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate (JNLWP). It’s a laser that can “talk” using a physics phenomenon called the Laser-Induced Plasma...
by stephen | Dec 17, 2021 | Blog
Scientists at Sweden’s KTH Royal Institute of Technology have created a transparent wood composite that allows light to filter though. The material could be used to replace glass windows in order to reduce energy costs. Wood is 10x better at insulating than...
by stephen | Dec 17, 2021 | Blog
Good news for the bottom line. According to a recent survey, employees in the U.S., U.K., France and Germany rated working for a company with a strong company culture as more important than higher pay. Specifically, 56% of polled workers said culture was more...
