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France Awards Raytheon Contract for Laser-Guided Munitions

The government of France awarded Raytheon Company a direct commercial sales contract Jan. 18 worth $22 million for the combat-proven Enhanced Paveway(TM) II (EP2) dual- mode GPS/laser-guided precision munition and weapons integration for the French Air Force's Mirage 2000D fighter aircraft.

7 Feb 2008

Kent Displays Launches Latest LCD Displays

Kent Displays, Inc., today launched Reflex(TM), a new brand to its long proven cholesteric liquid crystal displays (ChLCD). Successfully used in a variety of display applications for 15 years, this new direction signals the company's vision to bring its Reflex(TM) displays to broader commercial and advanced display applications.

7 Feb 2008

Expansion of Facility to Support Rapidly Growing LCD Market

Corning Incorporated announced today that its board of directors has approved a capital expenditure plan of $453 million to further expand its liquid crystal display (LCD) glass substrate manufacturing facility in Taichung, Taiwan. This will be the fourth phase of expansion for the Taichung facility, which opened in 2006.

7 Feb 2008

Automotive Lighting Best Supplier of the Year

Automotive Lighting, a leading German exterior automotive lighting manufacturer, has recognized four companies for their outstanding contribution to automotive lighting in 2007.

7 Feb 2008

Laser Devices Helping Chronic and Acute Pain Suffers

Multi Radiance Medical, in partnership with Rich-Mar Corporation, has announced a breakthrough with the introduction of its new therapeutic laser, Laser Prism with Area Identification Matrix (AIM) and its FDA 510(k)-cleared LaserStim accessory, to speed relief to chronic and acute pain sufferers.

6 Feb 2008

iLASIK Making Laser Vision Correction More Safe and Effective

Approved for use on consumers almost a decade ago, more than 11 million LASIK procedures have been performed to-date, making it the most-common elective surgical procedure in the U.S. Today, laser vision correction is more safe and effective than ever before with the introduction of the iLASIK procedure.

6 Feb 2008

Groundbreaking Camera Phone Allows Users to Easily Create High Quality Videos

LG Electronics, Inc. and DivX, Inc., a digital media company, today announced that the LG Viewty camera phone (Model: LG-KU990) is the first mobile phone with DivX Certification to natively record video in the high quality DivX format.

6 Feb 2008

New Case Helps Photographers Overcome Fear of Flying

CaseCruzer is pleased to introduce a Pelican case that will ease the air travel nightmare experienced by most photographers. The new camera case, the Photo StudioCruzer 1510, is the toughest airline-legal carry-on case available today. Now photographers can roll on and off an aircraft without fear of baggage handlers and accidents.

6 Feb 2008

First Electric Cooktops with Infrared Sensor Technology

Furthering its seven decades heritage of fulfilling culinary passions, Thermador arrives at the 2008 International Builders’ Show (2/13-16/08) with two exciting industry firsts. Thermador’s sleek new electric cooktops boast infrared sensor technology to accurately monitor the cooking temperature for precise results and time savings.

6 Feb 2008

Racing a Charged Particle at Light Speed

RHICs 2.4 mile ring has six intersection points where its two rings of accelerating magnets cross, allowing the particle beams to collide. The collisions produce the fleeting signals that, when captured by one of RHICs experimental detectors, provide physicists with information about the most fundamental workings of nature.

6 Feb 2008

New Fluorogen Activating Proteins Become Key Component for Biosensor Technology

Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University’s Molecular Biosensor and Imaging Center have developed new “fluorogen activating proteins” (FAPs) that will become a key component of novel molecular biosensor technology being created at Carnegie Mellon.

6 Feb 2008

Simultaneous Optical and Electronic Measurements on Same Molecule

In a study that could lay the foundation for mass-produced single-molecule sensors, physicists and engineers at Rice University have demonstrated a means of simultaneously making optical and electronic measurements of the same molecule.

6 Feb 2008

Low-Frequency Active Sonar System Will Help Protect Whales

Leadership for the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) praised the decision today by a U.S. District Court to grant a preliminary injunction against the U.S. Navy that will restrict the use of Low Frequency Active (LFA) sonar during testing and training operations.

6 Feb 2008

3D Holographic Displays That Can Be Erased and Rewritten in Minutes

University of Arizona optical scientists have broken a technological barrier by making three-dimensional holographic displays that can be erased and rewritten in a matter of minutes.

6 Feb 2008

Transparent Electrodes from Carbon Nanotubes

One of the immediate applications of carbon nanotubes (CNT) is as an additive to polymers to create electrically conducting plastics-a relatively low CNT concentration can dramatically change the polymer's electrical conductivity by orders of magnitude, from an insulator to a conductor.

6 Feb 2008