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Physicists Use Polarized Light to Design Model for Quantum Physical Random Walk

An experiment with a Galton board - a board containing vertical pins arranged in a triangular pattern

17 Feb 2010

Images from NASA's Space Telescope Confirms Supernova Remnants are Sources of Cosmic Rays

New images from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope show where supernova remnants emit radiation a billion times more energetic than visible light

17 Feb 2010

Axiom Launches LED Retrofit Kits Under AoTuroaLED Brand

Axiom NZ announced today that it has launched a new company focused on interior LED lighting designed to replace fluorescent. Operating under the AoTuroaLED Limited brand name the company's first product is designed to be a low cost retrofit for 2 ft x 4 ft T-Bar ceiling style fixtures that typically use four (4) T12 Fluorescent tubes or two (2) T8 Fluorescent tubes.

17 Feb 2010

Digimarc Introduces New Editions of Digimarc for Images Solutions

Digimarc Corporation (NASDAQ: DMRC) today announced three new editions of its popular Digimarc for Images product, all of which feature advanced “Chroma” technology that provides an easy, reliable means for image professionals and small businesses to communicate their ownership and usage rights wherever their valuable photos and other image assets are found across the internet.

17 Feb 2010

AMS Technologies Showcases Latest Powerful Thermoelectric Cooling Units for Laser Diode Modules

AMS Technologies presents its powerful thermoelectric cooling units SD-330 and SD-250. Suitable for laser diode modules in medical and industrial applications, these solid state cooling units omit the need of water cooling and let users benefit from either high safety margin, reduced fan noise or high cooling capacity of up to 330 W.

17 Feb 2010

Glimmerglass Discusses Major Advancements in Optical Networks at USEUCOM Expo in Germany

Glimmerglass, the leading supplier of intelligent optical layer management solutions, today announced it will display and discuss major advances that enable the rapid and remote reconfiguration of optical networks for the collection and dissemination of intelligence as well as Cyber Defense at the United States European Command (USEUCOM) Intelligence Summit & Technology Expo on Feb. 15-17 in Heidelberg, Germany.

17 Feb 2010

Cypress TrueTouch Touchscreen Solution Now Used in N-02B Mobile Phones

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ:CY) today announced that its TrueTouch™ touchscreen solution is employed in the new docomo PRIME series™ N-02B mobile phone from NEC. The N-02B offers a high-resolution, 12-megapixel camera that can be activated in less than one second.

17 Feb 2010

Kodak Introduces New EKTAR 100 Film for Commercial Photographers

Large-format photographers will now be able to shoot with the world’s finest grain color negative film, as Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE:EK) announced the upcoming availability of its KODAK PROFESSIONAL EKTAR 100 Film in 4x5 and 8x10 sheet formats. EKTAR 100 Film, also available in 35mm and 120 formats, is the ideal choice for commercial photographers and advanced amateurs for applications such as nature, travel, fashion and product photography, where the emphasis is often on color and detail.

17 Feb 2010

Nemotek Launches Wafer-Level Camera Lens for Laptop and Mobile Phone Applications

Nemotek Technologie, a manufacturer of customized Wafer-Level Cameras for portable applications, today launches its first two-element VGA wafer-level lens. Providing an advanced camera lens design with lower distortion, better resolution and higher image quality, the two-element lens utilizes glass wafers instead of traditional plastic. Marking the first steps in the next-generation of wafer-level lenses, Nemotek brings to market a compact, reflowable lens that provides high-end features at lower costs.

17 Feb 2010

Avago Introduces 25Gbps SerDes IP for Optical, Copper and Backplane Applications

Avago Technologies (Nasdaq:AVGO), a leading supplier of analog interface components for communications, industrial, and consumer applications, today announced that it has demonstrated serial 25Gbps SerDes performance in 40nm CMOS technology. This milestone is the latest achievement in Avago’s history of breakthrough ASIC Intellectual Property (IP) performance.

17 Feb 2010

KODAK Adds New Features to Scan Station 500

Updates to the KODAK Scan Station 500 help businesses of all sizes achieve greater productivity, efficiency and cost savings with networked document scanning. With enhanced daily duty cycles of 3,000 scans, the Scan Station 500 enables users to capture larger volumes of documents in a working day.

17 Feb 2010

Astronomers Use Telescopes to Reveal Star Formation in Galaxies

University of Arizona astronomers help explain why fewer stars are born today than in the early universe

17 Feb 2010

Zone-Plate Array Optical Detection System Can Efficiently Detect Biological Reactions in Lab

Scalable and reusable optical detection system boasts the sensitivity of a large microscope in a much smaller, cheaper package

17 Feb 2010

Impact Components Chosen as Sole Distributor of Innodisplay’s LCD Solutions

Impact Components has reached an agreement with Innodisplay, to be the sole distributor of Innodisplay’s full line of industrial & commercial application LCD A/D controller cards & open frame LCD kits in North America.

17 Feb 2010

Rudolph Receives Multiple Orders for S3000A and MetaPULSE Thin Film Metrology Systems

Rudolph Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: RTEC), a leading provider of process characterization equipment and software for wafer fabs and advanced packaging facilities, announced today that it has received multiple orders from a long-standing customer valued at $5 million for its S3000A™and MetaPULSE® III thin film metrology systems.

17 Feb 2010