Consumers who plan to buy eco-friendly bamboo apparel are attracted if the price is right, but their next consideration is the novelty of the product, according to a new study by Baylor University researchers. Bamboo has been championed ...
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New Zealand government has awarded $5.1m to two researchers of Massey University to assist them in improving the packaging of export food products. Modelling tools will be developed by the Institute of Food, Nutrition and Human Health ...
Tags: Food Products Packaging, Packaging
Moonshining loses the bootlegger label Too many straws have emptied the bucket Good agriculture info — needle in a haystack In an age where it is too easy to blast politicians for wasteful spending, there remains some very useful ...
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National Taiwan University in Taipei have invented a small sensor to be placed in the tooth, which can help doctors in monitoring patients’ eating habits and progress of their dental health. The sensor has an accelerometer which ...
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Autonomous cars will start testing on public roads in the UK by the end of 2013 as part of a government plan to reduce traffic congestion in Britain. Planned as part of a £28 billion ($46.4 billion) investment by the Department for ...
It may not quite be a character out of the Terminator 2, but university scientists have developed a way to use 3D printing to create structures made out of liquid metal. Researchers at North Carolina State University use 3D printing to ...
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INVISALIGN, a San Jose company, uses 3-D printing to make each mouthful of customised, transparent braces. Mackenzies Chocolates, a confectioner in Santa Cruz, uses a 3-D printer to pump out chocolate molds. And earlier this year, Cornell ...
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Like horses to the slaughterhouse PETA drones a trophy prize for US hunters Biggest wine hoax in history reveals trade secrets A substitute for the slaughterhouse; an alternative to the abattoir? Instead of killing cattle with a stunbolt ...
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The combination of TIR lenses, a reflecting chamber, and a diffuser-like microlens array deliver greater light output, better beam control, and less glare in SSL street lights according to a team of researchers from Taiwan and Mexico. ...
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For many consumer goods and beverage companies, labels allowing customers to effectively interact with their brand, are considered the Holy Grail. Similarly, they are seeking solutions to allow their boxed products to communicate with the ...
Tags: Paper Labels, Packaging, Printing, Electrical, Electronics
April 8, 2013 - The construction of the photovoltaic power industry since 2000 has required an enormous amount of energy, say Stanford University researchers, mostly from fossil fuels. The good news is that the clean electricity from all ...
Medrio, a US-based integrated eClinical software manufacturer, is offering its web-based Electronic Data Capture (EDC) Software for Clinical Research to universities under its Medrio Scholars program. The firm claims that the EDC software ...
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Google has acquired a startup from the computer science department of the University of Toronto to get key researchers in the area of deep neural networks. The Internet company acquired DNNresearch, which was set up last year by Professor ...
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Researchers have created a way to store data in the form of DNA and retrieve it without errors. The researchers, from the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) in Hinxton, England, claim to have used such a method to store versions ...
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UK’s Oxford University researchers have tested a new robotic technology on Nissan Leaf electric car that allows the vehicle drive itself on long routes. The move is aimed at developing everyday vehicles that can offer 'auto drive' ...