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Two Experimental Treatments on Eye Diseases Show Promising Results

Two experimental treatments, a retinal prosthesis and fetal tissue transplant, restored some vision to people with blinding eye diseases. The findings, presented at Neuroscience 2009, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience and the world's largest source of emerging news on brain science and health, may lead to new treatments for the blind. Researchers also reported that an engineered protein restored vision in an animal model and identified ways to improve stem cell treatments.

21 Oct 2009

Plastic Optical Fibre Potential to Revolutionise High-Speed Last-Mile Communications Networks

Plastic optical fibre (POF) for data transmission is often described as the “consumer” version of glass optical fibre, the kind that makes up the long-distance trunk routes of telecommunications networks. Flexible plastic fibres, with a core diameter of 1mm and made from polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA), are cheap to produce, easy to install and transmit light in the visible range as opposed to infrared, making maintenance easier and safer. But those properties typically come at the expense of lower bandwidth and high attenuation, restricting their use to sending data over short distances at relatively low speeds.

21 Oct 2009

Apple Launches iMac with LED-backlit 21.5 and 27 Inch Widescreen Displays

Apple® today unveiled an all new iMac® line featuring brilliant LED-backlit 21.5 and 27-inch widescreen displays in a new edge-to-edge glass design and seamless all aluminum enclosure. The new iMac line, starting at $1,199, is the fastest ever with Intel Core 2 Duo processors starting at 3.06 GHz, and Core i5 and i7 quad-core processors for up to twice the performance.* Every new iMac ships with a wireless keyboard and the all new wireless Magic Mouse, the world's first mouse with Multi-Touch(TM) technology pioneered by Apple on the iPhone®, iPod touch® and Mac® notebook trackpad.

21 Oct 2009

M7 Aerospace Offers New Service to Make Exact 3D Portraits of Entire Plane

That's why Texas-based aviation services company M7 Aerospace is now offering a new service to create precise, three-dimensional portraits of entire planes down to one-thousandth of an inch. To execute the job, M7 purchased a Z Corporation ZScanner® 700 PX, the world's only handheld laser scanner that precision-scans large objects such as aircraft and automobiles -- items that previously have been too big to capture by hand.

21 Oct 2009

TSA Grants $4.9mn for Installation of Additional CCTV Systems at Philadelphia International Airport

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) today announced approximately $4.9 million in funding for the installation of additional closed circuit television (CCTV) systems at Philadelphia International Airport (PHL), which are designed to assist TSA's efforts to strengthen security at airports.

21 Oct 2009

Abbott Acquires Privately Held Visiogen; Expands Vision Care Business

Abbott (NYSE: ABT) today announced that it has completed its acquisition of privately held eye care company Visiogen, expanding the company's vision care business with a next-generation accommodating intraocular lens (IOL) technology to address presbyopia for cataract patients.

21 Oct 2009

VisionCare to Present its Implantable Telescope Technology at AAO Annual Meeting and OIS

VisionCare Ophthalmic Technologies, Inc., a developer of advanced visual prosthetic devices for individuals with age-related macular degeneration (AMD), today announced upcoming scientific and corporate presentations on its implantable telescope technology. VisionCare's investigational telescope implant is the first medical device to be recommended for FDA approval by the FDA Ophthalmic Devices Advisory Panel for End-Stage AMD, a leading cause of untreatable blindness in the U.S.

21 Oct 2009

Telestone Technologies' WFDS Passes FCC Tests

Telestone Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq: TSTC; "Telestone" or the "Company") a leading developer and provider of local access network solutions based in China, announced today that its Wireless Fiber Distribution System (WFDS(TM)) passed all testing procedures of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission ("FCC"), including all of the existing 2G and 3G systems in the U.S.

21 Oct 2009

IceWEB Joins Spot Image to Build Turn-Key Imagery Appliance

IceWEB, Inc.(TM) (OTC Bulletin Board: IWEB), http://www.IceWEB.com, a leading provider of purpose built appliances and building blocks for cloud storage networks, announced today that the company is working with Spot Image Corporation to build and market a turn-key appliance pre-bundled with Spot Image's imagery served by Google Earth Enterprise.

21 Oct 2009

NIVS IntelliMedia Technology Starts Construction of Phase II of the Huizhou Factory

NIVS IntelliMedia Technology Group, Inc., ("NIVS" or the "Company") (NYSE Amex: NIV), a consumer electronics company that designs, manufactures and sells intelligent audio and visual products, today announced that the Company has begun construction on Phase II of its factory in Huizhou ("Phase II"), which will include a new manufacturing facility and dormitory.

21 Oct 2009

NASA Satellite Hits Target Two Billion Times

The Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) mission, developed by NASA's Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va., and the French space agency Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) has fired its lasers into the Earth's atmosphere over two billion times since its April 2006 launch.

21 Oct 2009

Products from Optelecom-NKF to be Under the Siqura Brand Name from January

Optelecom-NKF, Inc., (Nasdaq: OPTC) a leading global supplier of advanced video surveillance solutions, today announced that all products developed and distributed by the company will use the Siqura® brand name as of January 1, 2010.

21 Oct 2009

Apple Unveils New Wireless Magic Mouse Featuring Multi-Touch Technology

Apple® today introduced the new wireless Magic Mouse, the first mouse to use Apple's revolutionary Multi-Touch(TM) technology. Pioneered on iPhone®, iPod touch® and Mac® notebook trackpads, Multi-Touch allows customers to navigate using intuitive finger gestures. Instead of mechanical buttons, scroll wheels or scroll balls, the entire top of the Magic Mouse is a seamless Multi-Touch surface. Magic Mouse comes standard with the new iMac® and will be available as a Mac accessory at just $69.

21 Oct 2009

Apple's MacBook Updated with Multi-Touch Trackpad and LED-Backlit Display

Apple® today updated its popular MacBook® with a new, durable polycarbonate unibody design featuring a brilliant LED-backlit display, a glass Multi-Touch(TM) trackpad and Apple's innovative built-in battery for up to seven hours of battery life. Inheriting technology and design features from the MacBook Pro line, the new MacBook is an ideal consumer notebook for students and new Mac® users, and is available for $999.

21 Oct 2009