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TTP Labtech Announces Release of New High Content Imaging System

TTP Labtech has announced the release of the acumen® hci (high content imaging) system, developed for researchers who are looking to increase the productivity of their high throughput imaging.

8 Jan 2013

Advanced X-Ray Imaging for Security Screening

Scientists at The University of Manchester have developed a camera that can be used to take powerful three dimensional colour X-ray images, in near real-time, without the need for a synchrotron X-ray source.

8 Jan 2013

Linkam Scientific Instruments TST350 Tensile Temperature Stage Used to Study Influence of DMDBS on Polypropylene Films.

Market leaders in temperature controlled microscopy, Linkam Scientific Instruments have been chosen as suppliers of a TST350 stage for the Complex Fluids and Polymer Engineering Division, National Chemical Laboratory, India to study the mechanical properties of dimethyl dibenzylidene sorbitol (DMDBS).

8 Jan 2013

Larson Electronics Introduces 120/277 VAC A19 LED Bulb

Larson Electronics announced the addition of their 120/277 VAC A19 LED bulb. The LED-A19-10-E26 is a replacement for standard 100 Watt incandescent light bulb and operates on voltages ranging from 120 to 277 VAC.

7 Jan 2013

VIZIO Offers Sleek Large-Size LED Smart TVs

VIZIO, America's #1 60+ inch HDTV company1, announced today a record-setting holiday season with its award-winning large-size LED2 Smart TV line-up. VIZIO's E-Series 60" and 70" LED Smart TVs deliver best-in-class big screen entertainment and value with Full 1080p LED picture quality and built-in WiFi for movies, TV shows, music and more all on-demand from the most significant apps such as Amazon Instant Video, HuluPlus, Netflix®, Pandora®, VUDU, YouTube® and more.

7 Jan 2013

CEVA, iOnRoad Partner to Offer Camera-Enabled Driving Assistance Devices

CEVA, Inc., the leading licensor of silicon intellectual property (SIP) platform solutions and DSP cores, today announced it is partnering with iOnRoad, an award-winning technology provider for personal driving assistance. The two companies have integrated and optimized the iOnRoad software for use with the CEVA-MM3101 imaging and vision platform for camera-enabled devices. The companies will demonstrate the technology at CES 2013 in Las Vegas from January 8-11th, 2013.

7 Jan 2013

CES 2013: Stream TV Networks Debuts Glasses-Free 3D Viewing Technology

ShowStoppers @ CES 2013 -- Stream TV Networks is proud to debut its proprietary Ultra-D™ 2160p technology which features an Ultra-D™2160p powered display, delivering the sharpest 3D experience outside of the cinema – no glasses required. The technology also incorporates the new Ultra-D™2160p SeeCube™ real-time conversion set top box, which provides 2D to 3D-without-glasses and 3D-with-glasses to 3D-without-glasses content conversion in resolutions up to true 2160p.

7 Jan 2013

MultiTouch Introduces Interactive Displays Based on CVTS Technology

MultiTouch Ltd., the world leader in interactive display systems, today announced its latest technology, Enriched Reality™. With the new technology, MultiTouch's MultiTaction® series of displays are able to detect every object that interacts or is placed on the system.

4 Jan 2013

Cambrios and GVision Develop Integrated Touchscreen LCD Displays

Cambrios Technologies Corporation, the leader in nanotechnology-based solutions for transparent conductive electronic devices, today announced its partnership with LCD Display OEM/ODM manufacturer GVision Incorporated to create and promote integrated touchscreen LCD displays enabled by Cambrios’ ClearOhm™ coating material. Cambrios will showcase GVision’s L15AX Point-of-Sale (POS) display at the 2013 International CES in Las Vegas, January 8 – 11, 2013.

4 Jan 2013

NASA's Dawn Space Probe Camera Reveals Enormous Craters in Protoplanet Vesta’s

The protoplanet Vesta has been witness to an eventful past: images taken by the framing camera onboard NASA's space probe Dawn show two enormous craters in the southern hemisphere. The images were obtained during Dawn's year-long visit to Vesta that ended in September 2012. These huge impacts not only altered Vesta's shape, but also its surface composition.

4 Jan 2013

At Least Billions and Billions of Planets Exist in the Milky Way Galaxy

Look up at the night sky and you'll see stars, sure. But you're also seeing planets—billions and billions of them. At least.

4 Jan 2013

NASA’s Swift UVOT Telescope Delivers Images Blocked by Earth’s Atmosphere

A large new collection of space photos taken at wavelengths that are invisible to the human eye and blocked by Earth's atmosphere has been released as a New Year's gift to the people of Earth by NASA and Penn State University. The images were captured by a telescope on board NASA's Swift satellite, whose science and flight operations are controlled by Penn State from the Mission Operations Center in State College, Pa., using the Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope, which resulted from Penn State's collaboration with the Mullard Space Science Laboratory of the University College-London. The telescope is one of just a few that study ultraviolet light, much of which is blocked by the atmosphere surrounding Earth

4 Jan 2013

JIEDDO Awards Block MEMS Contract to Adapt LaserScan Spectrometer to Detect IEDs

Block MEMS has been awarded a major, multi-million dollar contract funded by the Army's Joint Improvised Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO). Under the contract Block will adapt its LaserScan (TM) spectrometer to detect from a distance recently dug up soil, which on dirt roads is a possible indicator of a buried explosive hazard, also called an Improvised Explosive Device (IED).

4 Jan 2013

LG Introduces New Collection of IPS Monitors

LG Electronics (LG) is introducing its 2013 collection of IPS monitors, featuring new concepts such as UltraWide, ColorPrime and Touch 10, perfectly matched for entertainment, professional applications and touch-based interaction, respectively.

3 Jan 2013

Computer-Based Imaging Tool May Help Identify Risk for Open-Angle Glaucoma

A new study finds that certain changes in blood vessels in the eye's retina can be an early warning that a person is at increased risk for glaucoma, an eye disease that slowly robs people of their peripheral vision.

3 Jan 2013