Spreading salt on roadways is still the most cost-effective tool for preventing death, injury, and property damage from winter traffic accidents around the world. In 2011, highway departments in the U.S. alone spread 19.6 million tons ...
Festo introduces the DGC-K, a compact rodless pneumatic drive ideal for simple drive functions and positioning operations, such as opening and closing doors and end of line packaging applications. Relative to its stroke, this unit is ...
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Canon's new G1S Mark II ($799.95 suggested retail) features a new 13.1-megapixel (4:3) 1.5-inch sensor and a 5x zoom lens. Related canon Canon Adds Support Center In New Mexico canon Canon 70D DSLR Goes On Sale At BestBuy.com canon Canon ...
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Swedish food processing and packaging firm Tetra Pak has introduced a new version of Tetra Therm Aseptic Flex, the continuous aseptic processing unit for indirect UHT treatment of dairy as well as other food products. The new version ...
Diamonds may be a girl's best friend,but they could also one day help us understand how the brain processes information,thanks to a new sensing technique developed at MIT. A team in MIT's Quantum Engineering Group has developed a new ...
With all the buzz around the Internet of Things,it's easy to lose sight of the fact that the electricity grid already operates with millions of connected meters and sensors.Yet writing applications for these programmable machines is too ...
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Plastic container manufacturer Graham Packaging has installed Agr International's automated blowmolder control system called Process Pilot to meet multiple constraints. The Process Pilot is helpful in managing material distribution ...
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The Olympus OM-D E-M10 ($699 suggested retail, body only) is a new ultra-compact addition to the OM-D Micro Four Thirds camera family. Related Olympus Olympus Unveils Stylus 1 Advanced Point-&-Shoot Olympus Olympus Unveils E-M1 Olympus ...
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(Phys.org) —Advances in light-sheet microscopy have led to impressive images and videos of the brain in action. With this technique, a plane of light is scanned through the sample to excite fluorescent calcium sensors which proxy ...
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Building robots is hard. Seriously hard. Not only do you have to construct them physically, but even after you've got them all wired up with motors and sensors and batteries and whatnot, they won't actually DO anything until you've spent ...
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Photo: Scott Stephenson King Under The Mountain: In the PandaX experiment, a vat of liquid xenon is stored beneath hundreds of meters of rock. With luck, the isolation will keep things quiet enough to sense signs of dark matter. In the ...
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Human trials are expected to start in two years on an implantable artificial pancreas that uses an elegantly simple materials solution to regulate insulin based on blood glucose levels, according to a news release from Leicester, ...
At the Mobile World Congress 2014, Sensirion AG is presenting its latest humidity and temperature sensor SHTW1, which opens up new possibilities in the weara-ble and mobile market with its chip-scale packaging technology. This global ...
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LaMar Lighting Company launches a new website for its occu-smart® line of motion sensor controlled bi-level lighting .Designed to serve as a resource for architects, lighting designers, electricians and facility managers, the website ...
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Circuit of The Americas™ (COTA), is a world-class performance, education and business center and home to the Formula 1 United States Grand Prix and 2014 ESPN Summer X Games. COTA now features Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE:AYI) outdoor ...