The fastest and most powerful Ferrari production car in history, the LaFerrari, has been unveiled at the 2013 Geneva motor show. The latest in a long line of special series cars from the iconic Italian sports car manufacturer, the highly ...
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A common assessment of China's labor force is that its strength lies in highly repetitive manufacturing processes that require large amounts of manual human labor. As for more service-oriented knowledge tasks, the reigning perception is ...
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After a successful liftoff of the SpaceX Dragon on Friday, the company's engineers were working on a glitch in the spacecraft's thruster system, delaying a Saturday rendezvous with the International Space Station. NASA reported earlier ...
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Wynright Corporation, a leading independent, U.S.-based provider of intelligent material handling systems, has announced the appointment of Joe Hutter to President, Engineering and Integration, for its Elk Grove Division. Hutter, a ...
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The Kia Optima Hybrid has optimised its environmental performance. The South Korean brand has announced an upgrade for the petrol-electric medium car – a variant that is not yet available in Australia. Tweaks to the Kia ...
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Adopting Eurocodes helps increase safety, boost efficiency, and reduce costs, according to the world’s largest coatings manufacturer. Speaking at a Parliamentary Seminar on fire safety, Peter Scott, Structural Engineering Manager at ...
What's it like coming to work at an office that has a 327-acre automotive test facility pictured just outside your window? We'll, it's pretty cool. We have the largest and most sophisticated independent automobile testing center devoted ...
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Blue Chip Technology has designed a multicore Cortex-A9 based computer board with a dual display, CAN and Mini PC-Express peripherals in a fan-less embedded computer. Designated the RE3, it is available as a Cortex-A9 single core, dual ...
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Omron has recognised the work of its UK distributor, Anglia Components. Pictured (left to right): Alex Grout (Omron), Kerry Higham (Anglia), Chris O’Neill (Omron) and Graham Bridger (Anglia). According to Alex Grout, ...
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ARM creates the intellectual property used in the designs of more than 95% of the smartphones in the world, but the company had only a small booth at the edge of Hall 6 at Mobile World Congress here this week. ARM, based in Cambridge, ...
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Smartphones, it seems, can do anything. Today's phones pack so much power and so many sensors into such a small space -- and at a relatively low cost -- that they are increasingly being used for inventive purposes. Just this week Strand ...
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Dyson continues to push the limits of industrial design with the announcement of two new vacuums, each with space-age styling and impressive innovations. The question is, will the DC47 bagless canister vacuum and the DC50 upright vacuum ...
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At the recent SPIE Photonics West 2013 trade show in San Francisco (5-7 February), Luminus Devices Inc of Billerica, MA, USA, which makes PhlatLight (photonic lattice) LEDs for solid-state lighting applications, announced that production ...
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Broadcast and pro audio technology specialists HHB Communications is releasing the HHB 2013 Catalogue at the BVE London show on Stand D62A. With technical and sales information on over 2,000 professional audio products from the world's ...
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Lenze Americas, a leading global manufacturer of electrical and mechanical drives, motion control and automation technology, has released a packaged collection of formulas now available as a free app for smartphone, tablet and mobile PC ...