True to their motto, all Brentano fabrics strive to strike the perfect balance of beauty + performance, and with their spring 2013 Symphonic collection, Brentano introduces high-performance textiles that are suitable for contract, ...
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The Google Glass project is generating a significant amount of buzz. Really, it is scary how amped up people are about the product. But, why shouldn’t they be? It is a whole new technology. If you don’t know, Google Glass is the ...
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American Air Filter Co., Inc. has introduced the MEGApleat M8 premium pleated filter. AAF International says that when compared to the leading MERV 8 pleated filter in the market, the MEGApleat M8 filter reduces energy costs by up to ...
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All the doors are incomplete without a proper and easy to use door knob. A door knob is what adds to the utility value of the door where we can easily push, pull, open or close the door. Most of the door knobs today come with an in-built ...
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Outdoor Seating Groups for Entertaining The right furniture and accessories make outdoor living more fun. And this is true whether you like to entertain friends, or enjoy relaxing by yourself. Today you have a variety of choices when ...
The fabrics and yarns used in traditional embroidery vary from place to place. Wool, linen, and silkhave been in use for thousands of years for both fabric and yarn. Today, embroidery thread is manufactured in cotton, rayon, and novelty ...
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With the Olympics last year, there has been a considerable focus on innovation in sportswear. New product developments from both small companies and large brands alike, not only make garments look and fit better, they also help athletes ...
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Convenience retail chain 7-Eleven has launched its two new sandwiches, the Steakhouse Roast Beef and Bistro Deluxe, in plastic packaging comprising new graphics that feature a dot-grid pattern in shades of lime green. Introducing the new ...
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The S&P/ASX200 is down 0.3 per cent as resources stocks including BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, Fortescue and Oil Search are down 1.2 per cent to 2.7 per cent on commodity weakness and with ex-dividend falls today worth about 11 index points. ...
Dropbox CEO Drew Houston has warned against buying into cloud services offered by mobile device manufacturers and network operators, claiming that consumers and businesses can easily become locked in. Speaking at Mobile World Congress in ...
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Western Digital has announced what it said is a nanotechnology breakthrough that will allow the company to double data storage capacity on hard disk drives (HDD). The discovery was made by HGST Labs, a company owned by Western Digital ...
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What do toffee, volcanic lava; enameled baths and Perspex have in common? They are all examples of what has been called the fourth state of matter-they are GLASSES, just as much as a bottle or windowpane. A glass is a material with the ...
The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) reported today that manufacturing output of February picked up where January left off: in a very good place. The PMI, the index used by the ISM to measure manufacturing activity, was 54.2 in ...
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Lectra, the world leader in integrated technology solutions dedicated to industries using soft materials—textiles, leather, industrial fabrics, and composite materials—has organized with AMFI-Amsterdam Fashion Institute a design ...
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An international research team has made a stretchable battery by forming an array of 2mm diameter Li-ion cells in a layer of silicone elastomer. Individual cells are connected into a battery using 50μm copper tracks deposited in a ...