A ring laser gyroscope produced by the Arsenal factory in Ukraine. Credit: Nockson, CC-BY-SA 3.0 Ring laser gyros, or RLGs, use a closed ring of light to measure angular acceleration. At the heart ...

The idea behind the ring laser gyroscope actually dates back to 1913, when a French physicist, Georges Sagnac, experimented with rays of light moving in opposite directions around a circular ...

To set the gyroscope, a ring that surrounds the gyroscope is moved (either automatically by the submarine's computer or manually by the torpedoman) while the torpedo is still on board. The ...

Samsung has filed a new patent that shows the Ring-like device to be taking temperatures of objects and people. It could come ...