A unique fabric put through its paces by textile researchers at Nottingham Trent University for sportswear manufacturer Kurio Performance is helping to boost the performance of elite athletes. The specialist firm is producing compression ...
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Every good spinner understands the importance of testing cotton fiber quality. It's the basis for critical decisions which impact on yarn quality and, ultimately, the mill's ongoing profitability. The USTER AFIS PRO 2 fiber testing ...
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That lovely group of lavender blossoms can do more than look pretty. For centuries lavender has been used to calm nerves, eliminate insomnia and headaches, and reduce gastrointestinal ills. And during this century and the last, there have ...
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“The challenges for using new, fibre-based materials in the automotive sector are very complex,” explains Dr. Timo Hammer, Head of the Bioservice Team at the Hohenstein Institute in Bönnigheim, Germany. Given the variety ...
OrSense, a developer of solutions for non-invasive measurements of various blood parameters, announced that it has received the US Food and Drug Administration clearance for its NBM-200MP, noninvasive hemoglobin (Hb) and pulse oximetry ...
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Chinese scientists announced on Monday that they have developed a type of nanomaterial which can catalyze algae masses growing on water surfaces into inorganic earth. Chinese lakes are often plagued by catastrophic outbreaks of blue-green ...
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Scientists at the University of Washington are working on a rocket that they say could enable astronauts to reach Mars in just 30 days. NASA has estimated that, using current technology, a round-trip human mission to Mars would take more ...
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Swiftwick, a leading producer of athletic compression socks, announces its new Cut-Resistant Hockey Sock is now available for consumer purchase. The sock has already been in high demand by NHL players on teams like the Nashville Predators, ...
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We recently tested a number of new SLR-like (mirrorless) cameras, and we were surprised to find that one, the Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH3, scored higher than all the SLRs tested in this group. It's just one point higher, but that's still ...
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CNET, the world's #1 consumer technology news and reviews brand, has released its Top 10 best and most influential tech products in 2012. The Top 10 is comprised of two lists that rank the Top 5 in each of two categories – best and ...
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Network World - As of June 2012, there were 237,000 iPad apps listed in the App store, many of them priced at 99 cents or even free. Yet very few of them let companies actually do business -- take customer orders, update inventory, submit ...
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Macworld - The My Passport Edge for Mac is the newest member of Western Digitals portable hard drive family. Its not wildly different from previous My Passport models, but the Edge does have USB 3.0 connectivity, and has slimmed down to an ...
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With a future in ARM servers looming, Advanced Micro Devices on Monday announced its fastest 16-core Opteron 6300 server chips as the company continues to enhance its x86 line-up. The five new Opteron chips, code-named Abu Dhabi, are up ...
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Hyundai and Kia today announced that the companies are revising their fuel economy estimates downward after the EPA spot-checked several models and found that the results did not live up to Hyundai's and Kia's claims. The affected Hyundai ...
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LaCie's impressive Rugged USB3 Thunderbolt Series portable drive has all of the features that the modern media professional could want. The Rugged USB3 Thunderbolt drive comes formatted HFS+and includes both the Thunderbolt and USB 3.0 ...
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