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Future Lighting Announces Rapid Worldwide Implementation of its simpleLED Light Engines

Future Lighting Solutions today announced rapid worldwide adoption of its new simpleLED® light engine program, which reduces design/prototyping cycles for solid-state lighting applications from as long as a year to as little as four weeks.

17 Apr 2010

New mPower Online Retail Store Accepts Orders for Emergency Illuminator

mPhase Technologies, Inc., the developer of Power On Command™ battery technologies, today launched the online retail store for mPower Technologies, mPhase's wholly owned consumer division.

17 Apr 2010

Two New Series of Digital Color Printers Released by OKI Data Americas

OKI Data Americas, which markets its products under the OKI Printing Solutions brand, announces the addition of two new series of digital color printers designed for medium and large workgroups with the launch of the C610 Series and the C711 Series.

16 Apr 2010

MERIS Captures Image of Volcanic Ash Cloud Sweeping Across the UK

This image, acquired today by ESA's Envisat satellite, shows the vast cloud of volcanic ash sweeping across the UK from the eruption in Iceland, more than 1000 km away.

16 Apr 2010

New Touchpad Tablet PC from Hanvon Features LED Backlight Panel

With rapid advancement in computer technology, the craze of tablet PCs has been running high. The leading manufacturer of consumer electronics in the country, Hanvon, has beaten the market in launching the first and latest Hanvon Touchpad tablet PC nationwide.

16 Apr 2010

SID Market Focus Conferences to Highlight Future of TV, Touch and Lighting Markets

The Society for Information Display (SID), the leading global organization dedicated to the advancement of electronic display technology, in collaboration with IMS Conferences, a division of IMS Research, today unveiled its action-packed program for the inaugural SID Market Focus Conference Series, taking place May 26-27 during Display Week (May 23-28) in Seattle.

From Veeco 16 Apr 2010

Significant Demand for High Precision Actuators for Optical Applications

Without doubt, actuators for precise control of optics were one of the main topics at the SPIE Defense, Security + Sensing 2010 Exhibition in Florida in April. Noliac's distributor Micromechatronics Inc. exhibited and attracted many visitors.

16 Apr 2010

Liteye Develops New HMDs with eMagin SVGA OLED Technology

eMagin Corporation announced today that Liteye Systems has developed two new head mounted display (“HMD”) products equipped with industry-leading OLED microdisplays from eMagin.

16 Apr 2010

Suniva’s High-Efficiency Solar Cells Power First 1MW Rooftop Solar Project in India

Suniva, Inc., a U.S. manufacturer of high-efficiency monocrystalline silicon solar cells and modules, today announced that its high-performance solar cells are powering India’s first 1MW rooftop solar plant.

16 Apr 2010

China’s New Highway Tunnel Projects Utilize LED Lighting Fixtures Developed by Xi’an Liming

LED-based tunnel lighting for two new highway tunnels in central China is saving up to 60% in energy consumption and related costs over fixtures built with traditional light sources. Utilizing LUXEON Rebel LEDs from Philips Lumileds, the 3,900 fixtures involved in the project were developed by Xi’an Liming Electronic Technology Co., Ltd., with engineering assistance and LED inventory management supplied by Future Lighting Solutions.

16 Apr 2010

EU-Funded Project Demonstrates How to Build Optical Sensors into Labs-on-Chips

A European research project has shown how to build optical sensors directly into the structure of labs-on-chips. The breakthrough paves the way for on-the-spot medical diagnostics.

16 Apr 2010

Duane Reade to Offer Ecospiral Energy Saving Light Bulbs in New York

A new energy saving light bulb is about to be launched in New York in a promotion that has the potential to save enough electricity to power Yankee Stadium for ten years.

16 Apr 2010

Micrel Rolls Out New Boost Regulator for High Power LEDs

Micrel, Inc. (NASDAQ: MCRL), an industry leader in analog, high bandwidth communications and Ethernet IC solutions, today rolled out the MIC3223, a high power Boost regulator for driving high power LEDs. MIC3223 is a monolithic switching regulator with integrated 3.5A, 37V power switch and can be used for driving high brightness 1-W or 3-W LEDs. The MIC3223 is currently available in volume quantities, with pricing starting at $1.46 for 1K quantities.

16 Apr 2010

NXP's HDMI Switch Chosen for Latest LG INFINIA 55LX9500 3D TV

NXP Semiconductors announced today that LG Electronics has selected NXP's leading HDMI switch for their newly released ultra slim LED 3D TV 55LX9500.

16 Apr 2010

Newly Developed Single Photon Detector Improves Optical Power Measurement

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed the world's most efficient single photon detector, which is able to count individual particles of light traveling through fiber optic cables with roughly 99 percent efficiency.

16 Apr 2010