Photo: Courtesy The Vintage Technology Association Nick Holonyak was sure the LED would replace the incandescent light bulb when he presented it to GE executives 50 years ago. While the incandescent is still king in homes across the ...
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Staedtler's summer back-to-school (BTS) campaign includes a 30-second cinema commercial in 2D and 3D, digital panel advertising in-cinema and a national consumer promotion. The in-cinema campaign will commence on Boxing Day, the biggest ...
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Don Stookey knew he had botched the experiment.One day in 1952,the Corning Glass Works chemist placed a sample of photosensitive glass inside a furnace and set the temperature to 600 degrees Celsius.At some point during the run,a faulty ...
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A must for the luxury-minded traveller,the Louis Vuitton's 2013 City Guides are,as asual,"packed with hidden gems and unique experiences".San Francisco Bay will be available for the first time as an individual volume and will be retailed ...
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MIT researchers have found a way to observe how electrons move in the class of materials known as topological insulators. Topological insulators are exotic materials,discovered just a few years ago,in which the electrons demonstrate ...
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Western homes over the last decade has openned up an exciting new set of options that can marry both eastern and western interior styling, art deco and materials. Apart from the individually crafted furniture, color and textures that regale ...
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The Victorian Age is certainly one by which we in the 21st Century are increasingly fascinated.From the retrofits of Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes movies,to the rise of Steampunk literature,subculture,and even Steampunk interior design,we ...
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Amazon on Thursday heated up the tablet competition with the introduction of new Kindle Fire HD tablets, including a model with LTE capabilities and another model with an 8.9-inch screen that can display images at a resolution of ...
Mor Furniture for Less announced that it is continuing in a series of rapid furniture showroom Grand Openings along the West Coast, this time opening its 5th furniture store in Washington State. Following on the heels of three Southern ...
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Cinefex announced recently that it has begun publishing an iPad edition of its popular film magazine. Cinefex is a quarterly magazine devoted to motion picture visual effects.Since 1980,it has been the bible for effects professional and ...
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UK-On Friday the 27 of July the London 2012 Olympic Games were officially opened with a spectacular Opening Ceremony which took place in the Olympic Stadium located at the London 2012 Olympic Park.Prior to the parade of more than 200 ...
A former toy designer has scooped top honours at this year’s Pilkington Vehicle Design Awards at the Royal College of Art, for his new concept on the modern family car that uses iPad-style technology. For the first time in the ...
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NXP is using a DSP and measurement of both output current and voltage to push 2.6Wrms through phone speakers. The product,called TFA9887,is a single chip intended to replace standard audio amplifier ICs in phones. Loudspeakers inside ...
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IDG News Service-After more than 25 years the venerable VGA port is finally disappearing from computers,but the interface is proving tough to phase out completely and will linger for years in projectors,monitors and TV sets. The VGA(Video ...
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Amazon will combine the development teams of two U.K.media companies it acquired last year to create a new Digital Media Development Center in London,the company said on Monday. The Internet giant said it will merge the design and ...
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