NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Monday flexed its 7-foot-long robotic arm for the first time since it landed on Mars. Monday's robotics maneuver had the rover checking its motors and joints by unstowing the arm, extending it using all five ...
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Increasing demand and the need for shorter development times are convincing vaccine manufacturers to switch from traditional egg-based production to advanced mammalian cell-culture fermentation.Efficient fermentation requires careful ...
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Ultraviolet light-emitting diode (UV LED) maker Sensor Electronic Technology Inc (SETi) of Columbia, SC, USA has been honored with the Tibbetts Award for the role it has played in R&D for the US Government under the Small Business ...
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Plessey Semiconductors has said that its EPIC sensor will now sell for less than a dollar in high volume consumer applications.The company has cost-reduced it electrometer sensing technology with a new electrode design to replace the ...
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The technique of using algorithms to analyze footage from video surveillance cameras in real time began coming into its own five years ago. It's an intriguing adaptation of standard surveillance security. It's still an emerging market, as ...
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Gaining a better understanding of customers is the main motivation for big data programmes. This is one finding from a SearchDataManagementUK survey of 184 UK and continental European IT and business professionals who are primarily ...
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Osram has signed a contract with the Wuxi New District Administrative Committee to build a new assembly plant in the Chinese province of Jiangsu. LED chips will be packaged in housings at the new backend facility starting in late 2013; with ...
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Riber S.A. of Bezons, France, which manufactures molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) systems as well as evaporation sources and effusion cells, has sold an MBE 412 system to a “leading expert company in IR imaging sensors materials for ...
For sterilising inoculating loops, tweezers or small instruments within seconds. The perfect solution where an open flame is to be avoided, gas cartridges or a central gas supply is not available. The schuett solaris is used with ...
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Datapaq introduces a new generation of the Food Tracker temperature profiling system with a humidity sensor for even more comprehensive data on food processes. The capacitive sensor provides both relative humidity and temperature data in ...
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The ROAMview system provides property owners and small municipalities the ability to efficiently manage outdoor lighting using a wireless monitoring and control system. ATLANTA–Acuity Brands,Inc.(NYSE:AYI;"Company"),a market leader ...
SVP Worldwide, the world's largest consumer sewing company, has announced that a total of six sewing machines from the SINGER, HUSQVARNA VIKING, and PFAFF brands have received the distinguished Consumers Digest Best Buy rating. According ...
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"Ford was founded on the innovative spirit of Henry Ford, and the opportunity today to reinvent the driving experience excites us just as it probably would have him," said Paul Mascarenas, vice president and chief technical officer of Ford. ...
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Sunnyvale,CA–Osram Opto Semiconductors'new Oslon Signal LED currently provides the world's brightest blue light.Made using a special thin-film chip technology,the Oslon Signal emits powerful bright blue light providing significantly ...
Taipei,Taiwan–GlacialLight,a division of experienced global technology leader,GlacialTech Inc.,has added the GL-FL30S,a 28W AC-input LED Flood Light with an infra red motion sensor,to it's popular range of LED lighting products. The ...