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TL Monitor Series Offers Slim Profile and LAN Control for Networked Capability

Expanding its broad line of Professional Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) Monitors, Sharp today announces the new TL Professional LCD Monitor line, a full 1920 x 1080 two-megapixel high-definition (HD) resolution series.

12 May 2008

Higher Temperatures Yield Tunable, Supersensitive Hyper-CEST MRI

Standard magnetic resonance imaging, MRI, is a superb diagnostic tool but one that suffers from low sensitivity, requiring patients to remain motionless for long periods of time inside noisy, claustrophobic machines.

8 May 2008

TFT LCD Modules Feature High Brightness and Low Power Consumption

Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC), a committed industry leader that collaborates with customers to create breakthrough designs, today announced a new color active-matrix thin-film transistor (TFT) liquid crystal display (LCD) module product lineup for industrial applications that incorporates long-life light-emitting diode (LED) backlighting systems.

8 May 2008

Student Project Aims to Develop Cost-Efficient Solar Power

For a project that could be on the very cutting edge of renewable energy, this one is actually decidedly low tech--and that's the point.

8 May 2008

On the Not So Bright Side of Compact Fluorescent Light

Today, lighting accounts for nearly 20 percent of the average home's electric bill and Americans are quickly switching from incandescent light bulbs to compact fluorescent light, which uses up to 75 percent less energy, lasts up to ten times longer, and produces a savings of about $30 per bulb.

7 May 2008

Computed Radiography System Helps Uncover Secrets from the Past

Digital medical imaging and information technology from Carestream Health, Inc., is playing a key role in helping The Field Museum of Chicago discover and analyze secrets hidden within its world-class collections.

7 May 2008

Ultrafast Laser Offers High Speed, Short Pulses and High Average Power

Scientists at the University of Konstanz in Germany and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated an ultrafast laser that offers a record combination of high speed, short pulses and high average power.

5 May 2008

Helping LCD TV Manufacturers and Brands Reduce Power Consumption of LCD TVs

The LCD TV Association, a global, not-for-profit, marketing trade association formed to help the entire LCD supply chain, retail channel and consumers, recently launched its GreenTV logo program to help focus LCD TV manufacturers and brands on reducing the power consumption of LCD TVs and raising consumer awareness.

2 May 2008

Company to Now Integrate Optical Bonding into Customer Offerings

Touch International, Inc. (TI) today announced it has acquired the specialized industrial LCD enhancement assets from the Torrance, Calif. location of DuPont Display Enhancements, Inc., a subsidiary of DuPont.

1 May 2008

Microscopic X-Ray CT is Expected to Help Scientists Testing Gene Function

A technique called microscopic X-ray computed tomography (microCT) is affording scientists the ability to visualize even the subtlest birth defects in prenatal and postnatal bats, mice, opossums and primates, which one day may lead to new understandings about human birth defects, said Charles Keller, M.D., of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

30 Apr 2008

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