Three new brands — Chamois Butt'r, Wilderness Trail Bikes and LegLube — have added SmartEtailing's Buy Local Now referral feature to their websites. The announcement brings the count to 18 for brands participating in the Buy ...
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This weekend's USA Cycling professional road and time trial championships are being held, for the first time in the event's 28-year history, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, after many years in Greenville, South Carolina. And Chattanooga's ...
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Not long after Specialized unveiled its new wind tunnel, employees at Giant challenged the fellow Californian brand to a duel: Giant's Propel SL Advanced o versus the Specialized Venge S-Works Di2 in a head-to-head battle to determine, once ...
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SRAM is introducing an upgraded version of its mountain bike trigger shifters for three of its parts groups, and is trickling down its Type 2 anti-chain slap feature to its X7-level rear derailleur. The company said all the updated parts ...
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A contentious controversy surrounds the high intensity of indium gallium nitride (InGaN) LEDs, with experts split on whether or not indium-rich clusters within the material provide their remarkable efficiency. Now, researchers from the ...
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Paul Adams, the designer behind the Google+ social networking site, who subsequently moved to Facebook, has quit the company for start-up Intercom. Adams had been central to the original (much criticised) design of Google+ and has spent ...
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Osaka-based Panasonic Corp has developed a semiconductor white light source capable of outputting luminous flux in the 10,000-lumen class. The new technology will enable wider variation in design, higher brightness and a smaller form factor ...
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A European project called the Bio-Board project has been instituted to develop sustainable protein-based paper and paperboard coating systems to increase the recyclability of food and beverage packaging materials. The BIO-BOARD ...
Envirocon Technologies, Inc., Midland, TX, has launched Lemi Shine Original Pacs, a 12.7-oz pouch with 20 pre-filled and perfectly sized doses of the company's best-selling product. The Pacs offer all the same benefits and power of Lemi ...
Group is "moving in the right direction" says chairman, as results for FY12/13 revealed. Mothercare executives have said that the infant and nursery retailer is making "good progress" after the first year of its 'Transformation and ...
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Indiana's Imagination Station launches 'Save the Toy Store' campaign on crowdfunding site. A US toy shop is asking for $80,000 in donations to help it stay open. Imagination Station in Franklin, Indiana, set up a funding page on ...
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Slow Seven will be unveiled at official press event; winner will have their products sold in store over Christmas. The Slow Toy Team has revealed that the Harrods' Toy Kingdom will play host to the Slow Toy Awards 2013. The Slow Seven ...
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A full media campaign will promote RC toy across Parrot's website and social media channels. A fresh promotional video for the Parrot AR Drone 2.0 has gone live, showcasing the product's robustness and stability. Titled "Parrot AR.Drone ...
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Global shipments for motion control products fell by 7.7% in first quarter 2013, according to new statistics released by the Motion Control Assoc. (MCA), the industry's trade group. "Despite the low numbers in first quarter 2013, we still ...
The servo-controlled Rotary Pocket (SRP) Bottle Unscrambler features patented rotary pockets to provide speed, precision and expandability while positively handling printed or pre-labeled bottles at speeds in excess of 300 per minute. The ...