The European version of the Chevrolet Corvette Stingray is undergoing testing at Germany’s Nurburgring just ahead of its expected on-sale. The US manufacturer says a team of its technical experts led by Chevrolet Europe technical ...
Texas Instrument Product Engineer David Zhang shares insights on LED color tuning technology in a recent blog post. As Tim Sullivan indicated in an earlier blog as well, LED lighting is a relatively new technology. Engineers that used to ...
Tags: LED color tuning PWM technology, LED, Lights, Lighting
Advanced test instrumentation has helped a UK-based solar PV specialist to significantly improve the electricity supply on two off-grid Hebridean Islands. Renewables specialist Wind & Sun Ltd. has recently completed two new innovative ...
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Internet giant Google is migrating from Oracle's MySQL databases to MariaDB, the fork from MySQL established by its co-founder, Monty Widenius. The news was broken by Jeremy Cole, a senior systems engineer at Google at the Extremely Large ...
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The average profitability of the global automotive supplier industry remains stable at an astonishingly high level: 6.5% EBIT margin for 2012 and for 2013. The most profitable sectors for suppliers are chassis, powertrain and tires, whereas ...
Tags: economy, Transportation
OEMs have been successful in developing technology for e-mobility worldwide, with vehicles now ready for series production. The price of an electric car is thus falling sharply, as the e-mobility index for Q3 2013 from Roland Berger ...
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In a new twist on strange brew, an Intel engineer Thursday showed off a project using wine to power a microprocessor. The engineer poured red wine into a glass containing circuitry on two metal boards during a keynote by Genevieve Bell, ...
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The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) and InnoCentive have announced the winners of the second CRT Challenge. The goal of the CRT Challenge is to develop compelling economic and ...
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LeMond LLC will introduce three models of a limited edition road bike at the Interbike expo in Las Vegas next week. The bikes, made by Time in France, will be the first bikes that Greg LeMond has marketed under his name since his split with ...
Tags: Interbike, bike, Transportation
The SLL thinks it is high time the industry had a reliable and unbiased guide to lighting controls and is calling?on your help to make such a document as comprehensive as possible. Andrew Brister reports on the likely?content for the guide ...
Before the invention of the refrigerator, icehouses were used to provide cool storage for most of the year. Placed near freshwater lakes or packed with snow and ice during the winter, they were once very common. Natural means are still used ...
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Flexible packaging printer Glenroy and lubricant formulator Lube-Tech have joined forces to develop the new stand-up oil pouch for the US power sports industry. The new stand-up pouch has been engineered for Arctic Cat's new C-TEC2 ...
How to choose a Commercial Heating Engineer When constructing or buying a business premise, there are many aspects that one has to consider; one of the most significant is heating and ventilating. Authorities in the UK are keen to ensure ...
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High-tech windows generate electricity using polycrystalline photovoltaic cells By Michael SwanThe stained glass windows designed by Sarah Hal at Saskatoon's Holy Family Cathedral serve a twofold purpose. Beyond the beauty they add to the ...
Tags: Stained Glass, Construction
China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) recently published a notification to “increase efforts to fulfill 2013 carbon emission reduction target,” according to a report by Guangming Daily. The notice ...