New technology developed by UC Berkeley bioengineers promises to make a workhorse lab tool cheaper, more portable and many times faster by accelerating the heating and cooling of genetic samples with the switch of a light. ...
Tags: PCR, LED Lights
Older adults in long-term care facilities often spend their days and nights in dimly-lit rooms with minimal time spent outdoors. The constant, unvarying dim light found in many long-term care facilities means that older adults are not ...
Tags: LRC, Older adults, Lighting
Recently, quantum dots (QDs)—nano-sized semiconductor particles that produce bright, sharp, color light—have moved from the research lab into commercial products like high-end TVs, e-readers, laptops, and even some LED lighting. ...
Tags: quantum dots, LED lighting, QD light
Jay Kim, Head of Marketing and Business Development Head of Marketing and Business Development at Business Center OLED, Philips’ OLED lighting division shares in this blog entry how OLEDs are making their ways into outer space and ...
Tags: Philips, OLED lighting, outer space, everyday lighting
The Welsh City Council in UK has switched to LED lights, since traditional sodium lights was interfering with local glow worm population’s reproduction habits, reported Daily Post. In short, the male glow worms were more attracted ...
Tags: LED lights, traditional sodium lights, glow worm population
A blue glowing device the size of a peppercorn can activate neurons of the brain, spinal cord or limbs in mice and is powered wirelessly using the mouse's own body to transfer energy. Developed by a Stanford Bio-X team, the device is the ...
Tags: blue LED, wireless control, mouse
A Dartmouth College team has created the first light-sensing system that reconstructs human postures continuously and unobtrusively, furthering efforts to create smart spaces in which people control their environment with simple gestures. ...
In first half of 2015, 23 LED strip lights made in China were notified as dangerous products on the EU RAPEX alert system, according to a report by China Quality News Network (CNQ). The number of LED strip lights reported by the EU alert ...
When Chris Carlen developed an enthusiasm for flashlights containing high-power LEDs, he didn’t anticipate that his hobby interest would lead to the creation of a new, high-speed LED driver delivering lighting performance that exceeds ...
Tags: Sandia, LED Pulser, lighting
The food and drug administration (FDA) of Maharashtra, a state in India, has found cases of misbranding and mislabeling after laboratory tests on a few samples of packaged foods revealed non-disclosure of certain contents. The state ...
Tags: FDA, labels, Food Safety
Nestle India has re-launched Maggi Noodles across store shelves in India just ahead of the festive season and the Swiss food giant is leaving no stone unturned to capitalize on the lost time as it seeks to expand the sales through ...
Tags: Nestle, instant noodles, Maggi
GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, a fabless developer of gallium nitride (GaN)-based power switching semiconductors for power conversion and control applications, has launched its Half-Bridge Evaluation Board, which demonstrates ...
Tags: GaN Transistor Circuit, power switching semiconductors
Nestle India’s Maggi Noodles has cleared the government approved lab tests, paving way for its retail sales this month. All the samples of the newly manufactured batches from its plants in Nanjangud in Karnataka, Moga in Punjab and ...
Tags: Maggi Noodles, Nestle
Asian giant gears up to pull out all stops to halt the fall in inbound tourism, Yang Feiyue reports. China will step up efforts to reverse the decline in the number of inbound tourists. A total of 33,500 modern public restrooms will be ...
Tags: Inbound Tourists, International language, Chinese cultural
Traders of mined diamonds are divided over how to best respond to the growth of their laboratory-grown counterparts. Last week, India’s Bharat Diamond Bourse (BDB) became the second exchange to ban trading of man-made diamonds, ...