Westmount, QC— The city of Westmount is installing cameras and mirrors on nearly all of its snow-removal trucks, in an effort to improve pedestrian safety. Marianne Zalzal, Westmount's director of public works, says blind spots ...
Intelligent LED street lights that are capable of eavesdropping pedestrian conversation from U.S. based company Intellistreets have been installed in Las Vegas City Hall, according to a Daily Mail report. The new lights are largely funded ...
Tags: LED Street Lights, Voice Recording
Diebold, Incorporated (NYSE: DBD) is helping secure one of the largest gold mines in the world. Operated by Pueblo Viejo Dominicana Corporation (PVDC), the Pueblo Viejo mine, located in the Dominican Republic, has proven and probable gold ...
OLEDs are already used in the displays of smart phones or digital cameras today. They offer an especially bright image with high contrast, but come with a serious drawback: typically, only one quarter of the electrical energy invested in ...
Google Glass and other smartglass technology will force CIOs to take a fresh look at their bring-your-own-device (BYOD) schemes as wearable computing begins to make headway into the workplace as early as 2017. That's according to ...
Tags: Smartglasses, Computer Products, google
Apple will build a new 700-employee manufacturing facility in Mesa, Arizona, to make sapphire glass, according to releases from the State of Arizona and GT Advanced, a New Hampshire-based materials manufacturing company. Apple purchased the ...
Tags: Apple, Flextronics plant
Teledyne DALSA is helping a company in China to realize the full potential of machine vision. By incorporating the Canadian firm's multi-camera embedded machine-vision technology into its products, Shangdong-based Mingjia Packaging ...
Canada-based QImaging has announced the introduction of its optiMOS scientific CMOS (sCMOS) camera that is suitable for a broad range of fluorescence microscopy applications. optiMOS is an alternative to traditional charge-coupled device ...
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FLIR thermal imaging is increasingly playing an important part in ensuring maximum energy yield from solar panels. It is involved throughout the life cycle of the product from its design, manufacture and quality assurance procedures ...
Tags: Solar Module, Energy
Garmin Ltd.'s fitness division, which includes the company's cycling products, saw strong sales growth in the third quarter, a period that included the introduction of the new Edge Touring cycle computer and Vector power meter. Fitness ...
Tags: Transportation, bike
EndoChoice, a US-based medical device company, has obtained 510(k) approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Fuse gastroscope, which has two cameras and has a 245 degrees field of view. The new gastroscope joins the ...
Tags: Endochoice, Fuse Gastroscope
Hazardous smog has hit 17 Chinese provinces and municipalities, affecting 600 million people this year. The capital, Beijing, was shrouded in smog for several days during the seven-day national holiday, disappointing visitors who wanted to ...
Tags: Air Pollution, Coal Use
Sony today announced the Middle East and Africa launch of its Xperia C, a dual SIM Android smartphone. The phone can accommodate two interchangeable 3G and 2G SIM cards, and has a 1.2 GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6589 processor It comes ...
Tags: Sony, Xperia C Smartphone
A boroscope is an important and useful optical imaging and video device. It comes with a rigid tube, with an eyepiece on one end and an objective lens on the other end. The mechanism of the boroscope is simple. The objective lens forms an ...
Tags: Boroscopes, Imaging Technology
Nissan has launched its new small car, Note, in England, Europe, marking the start of sales of its new B-segment car in the continent. The company recently held a media event at Eton Dorney Lake in Dorney, Buckinghamshire. To ...