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LED Lamps for Street Lights to Generate More than $2 Billion in Revenue by 2020

Dramatically falling costs and improvements in efficiency are driving increased sales of light emitting diode (LED) lamps for street lighting. Costs have fallen as much as 50 percent over the past two years, and are expected to continue falling.

28 Feb 2013

Intelligent Retinal Camera Accurately Detects Sight-Threatening Conditions

The most advanced technology for use in real-time detection and assessment of common blinding eye disease and general health disorders will soon be available to the world with stimulus funding provided for development by the Australian Government's CRC Program.

27 Feb 2013

MODIS Image Reveals Eye of Tropical Cyclone Rusty

Cyclone Rusty has been moving very slow over the last two days on its approach to landfall near Port Hedland in Western Australia, and NASA satellites have observed the storm's increase in power. NASA's TRMM and Aqua satellites provided rainfall, cloud height and temperature data that showed Cyclone Rusty intensified as it neared land.

27 Feb 2013

Amerlux Launches Energy Efficient Weatherproof LED Flood Lights

Designed to meet the growing demand for energy efficient flood lighting in a wide variety of commercial exterior applications, Amerlux introduces Varieta, a new series of high performance, weatherproof LED Flood Lights to replace less efficient, conventional fixtures for retail, hospitality and commercial environments.

27 Feb 2013

Holography and Optogenetics May Help Provide Bionic Vision

Researchers led by biomedical engineering Professor Shy Shoham of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology are testing the power of holography to artificially stimulate cells in the eye, with hopes of developing a new strategy for bionic vision restoration.

27 Feb 2013

Graphene Holds Potential for Light Harvesting Technologies

Bottles, packaging, furniture, car parts... all made of plastic. Today we find it difficult to imagine our lives without this key material that revolutionized technology over the last century. There is wide-spread optimism in the scientific community that graphene will provide similar paradigm shifting advances in the decades to come.

27 Feb 2013

New Ultraviolet Beam Viewer from Newport

Newport Corporation, a worldwide leader in laser and photonic solutions that Make, Manage, and Measure Light®, introduces an ultraviolet (UV) beam viewer, the UVU-2A.

From Newport Corporation 27 Feb 2013

Vtesse Adds Telehouse to Re-Configurable Optical Add Drop Multiplexers Node Network

Vtesse, the leading UK business communications provider, has today announced it has upgraded its services into the Telehouse data centre campus in London’s Docklands, adding Telehouse to its expanding multi-degree ROADM (Re-configurable Optical Add Drop Multiplexers) node network.

26 Feb 2013

ProTek Devices Debuts High-Efficiency LED Driver with Multiple Dimming Options

ProTek Devices today introduced its PA5711 high-efficiency LED driver with multiple dimming options that include Pulse Width Modulation (PWM), Linear Dimming (LD), Motion Detection (MD) and Light Sense (LS) control inputs. The PA5711 is ideal for general illumination displays, industrial and decorative LED lighting, automotive applications, and more.

26 Feb 2013

Novel Mass Spectrometry Technique Can Run Multiple Samples

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found a new way to accelerate a workhorse instrument that identifies proteins. The high-speed technique could help diagnose cancer sooner and point to new drugs for treating a wide range of conditions.

26 Feb 2013

Prysm’s Laser Phosphor Display Technology Wins DIGI Award

Prysm Inc., a video display provider offering brilliant life-like and life-size displays for truly immersive experiences, announced that its Laser Phosphor Display (LPD) technology has won a prestigious DIGI Award for the second consecutive year. This year Prysm has been recognized in the "Best Product, New Generation Display (non-LCD or Plasma)" category.

26 Feb 2013

EPFL Professor Honored with 2013 Electronic Imaging Scientist of the Year Award

Sabine Süsstrunk, IC Professor for Images and Visual Representation, was honored with the 2013 Electronic Imaging Scientist of the Year Award at the IS&T/SPIE 25th Electronic Imaging Symposium. Professor Süsstrunk received this award in recognition of her "seminal contributions to color imaging, computational photography, and image analysis."

26 Feb 2013

LRC Announces Four-Day Seminar on LEDs and OLEDs for Lighting Applications

The Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will hold a four-day, hands-on seminar May 14-17, 2013, to teach industry professionals how to incorporate light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) into lighting applications.

26 Feb 2013

Kickstarter Campaign for Mobile IMAGOphotour

The camera IMAGO1:1 is the largest walk-in camera in the world. Invented and built in the 1970s, in Munich, the IMAGO1:1 is unique. After many journeys and shows it found its final home in 2011 at the Aufbau Haus at Moritzplatz in Berlin-Kreuzberg (Germany). The venerable camera would not survive the rigors of yet more journeys.

25 Feb 2013

Maksutov Telescope on Board NEOSSat Can Help Discover Near-Earth Asteroids

Everyone knows that if you want to see a great distance, getting up higher makes for a better view. University of Calgary researchers are following that principle to make ground-breaking discoveries of asteroids in near-Earth orbits.

25 Feb 2013