At its foundations, The Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP) is an educational body with a broad mission to impart packaging expertise to the wider industry. So, early in 2013, the AIP worked with the World Packaging Organisation (WPO) ...
(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 ...
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 ...
Panasonic, along with some Japanese materials suppliers, is reportedly planning to invest around JPY100bn ($977m) in a lithium-ion car battery manufacturing plant to be established by electric carmaker Tesla Motors in the US. ...
WSA Capital and Australia-based Venture Asean have established a new joint venture (JV) company, WSA Venture Australia (M), to produce automotive component parts in Malaysia. These parts will exported to Australian, Asian and global ...
Tags: Automotive Parts, WSA Group
Napoli Foods, a US-based foodservice distributor, has completed the installation of a solar power plant at its site in Cheshire, Connecticut. The 860kW solar photovoltaic system was provided by Dynamic Energy Solutions, which managed ...
The 6th Annual 2014 IEEE Green Technologies will be held in Corpus Christi, Texas at the Corpus Christi Omni Hotel April 3-4, 2014. Sponsored by IEEE USA, IEEE Region 5, and IEEE Corpus Christi Section, and commonly referred to as IEEE ...
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What people who are increasingly demanding graphene commercialization avenues often miss is that a good portion of the research into the “wonder material” remains just figuring out what it can do. In the continuing research to ...
Tags: Graphene Films, Wireless Networks, Security
To develop correctly, baby hearts need rhythm...even before they have blood to pump. "We have discovered that mechanical forces are important when making baby hearts," said Mary Kathryn Sewell-Loftin, a Vanderbilt graduate student working ...
Tags: Baby Heart, Rhythm, Roadmap, SysCODE
(Phys.org) —The wearables smart specs marketplace is a trend yet to happen. On the one hand, proponents emphasize how cool it will be to stay connected via wearables without having to keep extracting and replacing a handheld device. ...
Tags: Icis, Laforge, Smart Glass, handheld device
Generating electricity is not the only way to turn sunlight into energy we can use on demand. The sun can also drive reactions to create chemical fuels, such as hydrogen, that can in turn power cars, trucks and trains. The trouble with ...
Tags: Hydrogen Fuel, Boost Promise, Choi, catalyst design
U.S. Senator Mark Warner (D-Va.) used a special Town Hall session hosted by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) Wednesday to issue a call for both new patent legislation and immigration reform to help drive capital investment and ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Lockheed Martin-Led team Lays Keel on nation’s eleventh Littoral Combat Ship Friday, Feb 21, 2014 The Lockheed Martin-led industry team officially laid the keel for the U.S. Navy’s eleventh Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), the ...
Tags: Combat Ship, Gibbs&Cox, LCS 3, MMC
Work uncovers secret of how genome-editing tool works as a 'guided missile' to correct errors in the genetic code Researchers from the Broad Institute and MIT have teamed up with colleagues from the University of Tokyo to form the first ...
People have long known there is energy in wastewater; extracting it economically is the problem. Startup Cambrian Innovation claims its technology can do it and a brewery and a winery are now using it to clean their wastewater while ...
Tags: energy in wastewater, reduced energy costs, wastewater reuse