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New Type of Laser That Goes Deeper into the Skin

UT Southwestern Medical Center plastic surgeons are among a handful in the nation deploying a new type of laser that goes deeper into the skin to help reduce wrinkles, tighten surface structures and treat pigmentation differences.

13 Feb 2008

SMI Receives Phase I SBIR funding to Develop Lens Coatings

Structured Materials Industries, Inc. (SMI) reports that it has received Phase I SBIR funding to investigate and develop lens coatings.

13 Feb 2008

Solar Project Represents Official Development Assistance for Photovoltaic Systems

Kyocera Corporation today announced that it will supply and install its solar power generating systems in the Republic of Tunisia under a yen-loan project by the Japanese government through Itochu Corporation.

13 Feb 2008

Wal-Mart Begins Distribution of Solar Battery Chargers

ICP Solar Technologies Inc., a developer, manufacturer and marketer of solar panels and products, today announced that Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the world's largest retail distributor, will carry the Coleman 12V solar battery charger range, designed and made by ICP Solar, in 2000 stores across the United States.

12 Feb 2008

Exceptional Ability of LEDs to Show Jewelry at its Best

Lamina Lighting Incorporated (Lamina), an innovator of LED lighting systems and technologies, today announced that their SoL MR16 LED has been included in the specifications for jewelry cabinetry lighting for Cartier, the renowned French jeweler and watchmaker based in Paris.

12 Feb 2008

Internet, Digital Television, Telephone Services Now Available to Milton Residents

RCN, a local leading provider of fiber optic triple-play high-speed internet, digital television and phone services, today announced that it is now available to residents in the town of Milton, Massachusetts. Milton joins 16 other Massachusetts communities currently receiving RCN service.

12 Feb 2008

Healthy Sight Through Nationwide Campaign

In an effort to heighten consumer awareness of the importance of healthy sight, Transitions Optical, Inc. is debuting a new print, broadcast and digital integrated advertising campaign in 2008.

12 Feb 2008

Ultra-Lightweight Solar Cells with One-Tenth the Thickness

Sunovia Energy Technologies, Inc. and EPIR Technologies, Inc. are pleased to announce the execution of an agreement with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the development of advanced high-efficiency, ultra-lightweight solar cells with thicknesses reduced by a factor of more than ten as compared to those currently in use.

12 Feb 2008

Lightest and Smallest 40G Testers on the Market

JDSU today introduced the T-BERD/MTS-8000 40G Transport module, an easy-to-use 40G field installation and maintenance tester. One of the lightest and smallest 40G testers on the market, the 40G Transport module weighs less than 18 lbs. when fully equipped for 40G and has been demonstrated at multiple Tier 1 carriers worldwide.

12 Feb 2008

OCC Named Recipient of 2008 Exporter of the Year Award

Optical Cable Corporation today announced that it is has been named 2008 Exporter of the Year in Information Technology/Telecommunications by ThinkGlobal Inc. ThinkGlobal is the publisher of Commercial News USA, the official export promotion magazine of the U.S. Department of Commerce.

12 Feb 2008

NICMOS Reveals Detailed Images of Infant Galaxy

Detailed images from Hubble's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) reveal an infant galaxy, dubbed A1689-zD1, undergoing a firestorm of star birth as it comes out of the dark ages, a time shortly after the Big Bang, but before the first stars completed the reheating of the cold, dark Universe.

12 Feb 2008

New World Record for Solar-to-Grid Conversion Efficiency

On a perfect New Mexico winter day - with the sky almost 10 percent brighter than usual - Sandia National Laboratories and Stirling Energy Systems (SES) set a new solar-to-grid system conversion efficiency record by achieving a 31.25 percent net efficiency rate.

12 Feb 2008

Breakthrough in Solar Cell Technology

Semiconductor insights gained by engineering physics researchers at McMaster University for the telecommunications industry have led to a research breakthrough in the future development of high-efficiency solar cells.

12 Feb 2008

Networks Provide Laser Training Options to Physicians

The Institute for Aesthetic Medicine (IAM) announced today the creation of a nationwide laser-training physician and nurse network for physicians and staffs with aesthetic practices. Aesthetic laser practitioners unable to attend one of IAM's clinical, hands-on certification classes can now have personalized clinical training in a single visit.

12 Feb 2008

Smallest VGA CameraChip Sensor Delivers Best-in-Class Sensitivity

OmniVision Technologies, Inc., the world's largest supplier of CMOS image sensors, today launched the world's smallest VGA CameraChip sensor, the OV7690. The new 1/13-inch VGA sensor features the newest generation of OmniVision's proprietary pixel architecture, OmniPixel3-HS, which delivers almost double the sensitivity and low-light performance (960mV/Lux-sec) of other low cost sensors.

12 Feb 2008