A year after inking a deal with new machine partner Breville, Nespresso has unveiled its newest line-up of capsule coffee machines, due to hit the market in time for Mother’s Day. Produced for the Australian market in association with ...
Tags: Coffee Machines, light-weight design, design
The worldwide consumption value of LEDs in biophotonic and medical devices reached US$77.3 million, an increase of 19.8% versus 2012, according to ElectroniCast Consultants. The consumption of LEDs in sensing/detection and ...
Tags: Biophotonics, Medical Science
Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell makers originally expected China-based PV module makers to reduce orders due to the impact of a US anti-dumping investigation of Taiwan-based solar cell makers, but instead have seen no decreases ...
Tags: Solar Cell, crystalline silicon
RiteDia, a wholly-owned subsidiary of optical disc maker Ritek, has developed a diamond-like carbon coating which can be used on LED epitaxial wafers to enhance heat-dissipation for LED lighting chips, and plans to license the technology to ...
Tags: LED Lighting, Carbon Coating
(AP)—Sony is borrowing innovations from its audio and camcorder businesses and incorporating its new Xperia Z2 smartphone with noise-cancelling technology and ultra-high-definition video recording. Noise cancellation works with an ...
About one in 10 heart surgery patients has persistent pain for up to two years after the operation, a new study reveals. The study included more than 1,200 patients aged 18 and older who had heart procedures -- such as bypass or valve ...
An inventory of wild-caught caterpillars, its food plants and parasitoids, has been going on for more than 34 years in Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG), a protected area of approximately 1200 km2 in northwestern Costa Rica. As a ...
Tags: ACG, Local Parataxonomist, ZooKey, parasitoid wasp
It is night time on Friday 21 February 2014 in southwest Brisbane and the rain is lashing down so hard that guests standing at the back of Andrew Barton Laundry’s state-of-art, one-week-old warehouse cannot hear managing director ...
Ordinary fishing line and sewing thread have joined forces in the lab to create incredibly strong artificial muscles. The new artificial muscles could someday lend superhuman strength to robots and wearable exoskeletons for humans. The ...
GfK Retail and Technology has released its quarterly report on the state of the electrical retailing industry in what it calls “Technical Consumer Goods (TCG), painting a mixed picture across varying segments in both the consumer ...
Tags: electrical retailing industry, Technical Consumer Goods
ABB has won an order worth around $60 million from Hydro-Quebec to replace components of its ultra-high voltage transmission system that transports hydroelectric power from North to South Quebec. As part of the order, ABB will upgrade two ...
February 24, 2014 Eaton’s Glenn Siegel (right) receives the Brand Leader award from Builder magazine, presented by Ed Kraft. The Halo product line has been recognized with this honor for 16 consecutive years. Power management ...
Tags: Lighting, Power management, LED, Brand Familiarity
JB Hi-Fi and The Good Guys are among the retailers and service providers that were recognised last week for their outstanding levels of customer satisfaction in 2013 at the Roy Morgan Customer Satisfaction Awards, hosted by Roy Morgan ...
Feb 24, 2014 01:48 PM ARLINGTON, VA — The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is taking comments on its proposed clearinghouse for drug and alcohol test results until April 21. It will post a final rule after it has ...
Tags: FMCSA, Drug, Alcohol Reg, PCP
Flat glass prices dipped .6 percent from December to January, marking the fourth such fall in prices within the last five months, according to the latest Producer Price Index (PPI) Report issued by the U.S. Labor Department. The only ...
Tags: Flat Glass, Construction Glass