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Capstone Turbine Corp.(www.capstoneturbine.com) (Nasdaq: CPST) is pushing traditional hybrid-electric vehicle barriers with the introduction of the CMT-380, a high-performance, hybrid-electric supercar powered by traditional batteries and an untraditional, ultra-low emission, range-extending...
Publication date: 3 December 2009
In 2011 it will be 50 years ago when a Dutchman called Bob van der Horst launched his magazine Electronica Wereld (Electronics World). A bit later the use of this title presented problems and in 1964 Bob’s periodical continued under the name Elektuur . Bob did not fail to see the potential of the...
Publication date: 2 December 2009
A new generation of ultrasmall transistors and more powerful computer chips using tiny structures called semiconducting nanowires are closer to reality after a key discovery by researchers at IBM, Purdue University and the University of California at Los Angeles .
The researchers have learned...
Publication date: 2 December 2009
RS Components today announced the launch of the new OSRAM ORBEOS OLED (Organic LED) lighting tile. OSRAM Opto Semiconductors has appointed RS to be the exclusive catalogue distributor for the ORBEOS across Europe and Asia , and the product is now available on RS websites.
The ORBEOS is a new...
Publication date: 1 December 2009
Texas Instruments has announced eZ430-Chronos development kit, which it claims to be first customisable development environment for sports watches. It enhances the popular line of eZ430 development tools to help developers utilise the integration, ultra-low power and wireless features of the...
Publication date: 30 November 2009
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Publication date: 26 November 2009
Elektor ’s software defined radio (SDR) has been an unprecedented success in terms of publicity and sales, especially in the USA . The original publication in May 2007 was graced not just by favorable feedback from the radio community but also by follow-up projects like a simple tester, a VLF...
Publication date: 26 November 2009
In everything from computer processor chips to car engines to electric powerplants, the need to get rid of excess heat creates a major source of inefficiency. But new research points the way to a technology that might make it possible to harvest much of that wasted heat and turn it into usable...
Publication date: 26 November 2009
As part of the Elektor Live! event staged on November 21, 2009 in Eindhoven , The Netherlands, prizes were awarded for the first edition of the Elektor Foundation Award. Over the past months, members of Elektor ’s international editorial team examined their local markets and nominated people and...
Publication date: 25 November 2009
The TenAsys INtime real-time operating system allows embedded system developers to run multiple instances of the OS alongside Windows on the same multi-core processor platform. Release 4.0 allows supports this advanced functionality.
INtime software combines deterministic, hard real-time...
Publication date: 24 November 2009
Two London-based designers have created a dress embroidered with 24,000 full color LEDs. The ‘Galaxy Dress’ claims to be the largest wearable display in the world and it will be the centerpiece of an exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.
“We used the smallest full-color...
Publication date: 23 November 2009
Serial magnetoresistive random-access memory (MRAM) may find wide-scale use in the emerging smart meter market. Everspin Technologies Inc. (USA), a spinoff of Freescale Semiconductor Inc., says its new serial peripheral interface also could make its MRAMs popular for data logging in industrial...
Publication date: 23 November 2009
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Publication date: 20 November 2009
In its Zurich research laboratory, IBM has developed a point-of-care diagnostic test device based on a silicon chip. A single device can detect up to sixteen pathogens, and it does this faster and with less material than conventional lab-on-chip devices. According to the researchers, the device...
Publication date: 19 November 2009
The Trends Audio PA-10 Tube Headphone/Pre Amplifier for the iPhone is based on a single 6DJ8/6922 series or 12AU7 series input vacuum tube. With its compact design (only 0.5 kg), easy portability and setup, the PAS-10 is suitable for the hi-fi room, living room, sleeping room or even right beside...
Publication date: 18 November 2009
Taiwanese manufacturer Epistar has developed a technology to reach high CRI and high efficacy for warm white LED to replace the low efficacy incandescent light bulbs. The 1 W package has a CRI of 90 and efficacy up to 110 lm/W for lower voltage (15 V) operation while the 3 W package has the CRI...
Publication date: 18 November 2009
Constructing virtual 3D models usually requires heavy and expensive equipment, or takes lengthy amounts of time. A group of researchers Cambridge University Engineering Department; Qi Pan, Dr Gerhard Reitmayr and Dr Tom Drummond have created a program able to build 3D models of textured objects...
Publication date: 17 November 2009
Thirty-six years ago, Ben Foss conceived of a device that could read out text from printed pages to help him with his dyslexia. Now Foss is shipping the product in his role as director of access technology for Intel's Digital Health group.
The Intel Reader is a paperback-sized device that...
Publication date: 16 November 2009
In 2006, Michelle Khine arrived at the University of California 's brand-new Merced campus eager to establish her first lab. She was experimenting with tiny liquid-filled channels in hopes of devising chip-based diagnostic tests, a discipline called microfluidics. The trouble was, the...
Publication date: 12 November 2009
Ludger Hovestadt is a professor of Computer Aided Architectural Design at Zürich’s renowned ETH. His life mission is to investigate how computer technology and electronics can help to optimize buildings with a view to cutting energy consumption drastically whilst offering more user comfort to the...
Publication date: 12 November 2009
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