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Olympus Unleashes New SP Ultra-Zoom Cameras with 30x Wide-Angle Optical-Zoom

Olympus today unveils two full-featured SP ultra-zooms cameras – the SP-800UZ, the world’s smallest 30x wide-angle optical-zoom, and the 15x SP-600UZ – that are easy-to-use and sure to get you closer to the action, whether you‘re capturing still images or High-Definition (HD) video.

5 Feb 2010

New STYLUS TOUGH Cameras from Olympus Feature 14 Megapixels and HD Video

Olympus Stylus Tough cameras already are world-renowned for being shockproof, waterproof, crushproof and freezeproof powerhouses. Now, the images they capture are virtually “delete-proof” because the new STYLUS TOUGH-8010 and STYLUS TOUGH-6020 deliver amazing images thanks to new technologies, including 14 megapixels, High-Definition (HD) video and powerful 5x wide-angle optical zoom lenses. These cameras not only endure more than any other cameras, they also capture images as vivid as the adventures you live.

5 Feb 2010

Laparoscopic Surgery Reduces Invasiveness and Stressfulness When Used in Hepatectomy

Conventional hepatectomy is an effective way to treat hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, it is invasive and stressful. Laparoscopic surgery, a kind of minimally invasive surgery, has recently gained considerable advances. The use of laparoscopy in hepatectomy, while technically demanding, reduces surgical invasiveness and stressfulness but still achieves complete resection with adequate margins.

5 Feb 2010

Underwriters Labs Purchases Pennsylvania-Based Luminaire Testing Laboratory

Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. (UL) announced today that it has acquired Luminaire Testing Laboratory (LTL), based in Allentown, PA. LTL is an independent testing laboratory that provides performance testing of lamps and luminaires and is one of five laboratories approved by the Department of Energy (DOE) for ENERGY STAR® qualification testing for LED lighting products. The acquisition bolsters UL's leadership in the lighting industry, which is a strategic market for UL.

5 Feb 2010

Survey Shows Patients Prefer Video Recording of Colonoscopy

Colonoscopy is operator-dependent and substantial numbers of pre-cancerous polyps are missed during colonoscopy. Colonoscopies are often poorly documented, with only a few still photographs taken of anatomic landmarks and abnormal findings. Video recording is rarely used in colonoscopy except for teaching purposes; therefore, the potential impact of systematic video recording on the quality of colonoscopy is unknown.

5 Feb 2010

Palomar Medical's Lux1540 Fractional Non-Ablative Laser Handpiece Obtains FDA Clearance

Palomar Medical Technologies, Inc. is pleased to announce that the Lux1540™ Fractional non-ablative laser handpiece has received the first clearance by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of striae (stretch marks) using a fractional laser. This new clearance will allow aesthetic practitioners to treat the millions of women worldwide who have unwanted stretch marks.

5 Feb 2010

Researchers Develop Laser from Germanium That Can be Useful for Optical Communications

MIT researchers have demonstrated the first laser built from germanium that can emit wavelengths of light useful for optical communications. It's also the first germanium laser to operate at room temperature. Unlike the materials typically used in lasers, germanium is easy to incorporate into existing processes for manufacturing silicon chips. So the result could prove an important step toward computers that move data — and maybe even perform calculations — using light instead of electricity.

5 Feb 2010

Global Market Trend Report on Medical Lasers

Forecasts for the global market in systems, providing data for 2008 and estimates for 2009, and projections for the market and compound annual growth rates (CAGRs) from 2009 to 2014

5 Feb 2010

Hubble Space Telescope Helps Astronomers to Study Galaxy Shapes

Hubble shows that the beautiful spirals galaxies of the modern Universe were the ugly ducklings of six billion years ago

5 Feb 2010

3SAE Inks Distribution Deal with DPM Photonics for Fiber Fusion Splicing Technologies

3SAE Technologies, Inc. today announced it has signed a consulting and distribution agreement with DPM Photonics to make 3SAE Technologies’ new large diameter fiber fusion splicing and preparation technologies available to high power fiber laser manufacturers and to military, aerospace, and industrial medical markets throughout the United States.

5 Feb 2010

Scientists Find New Technique to Destroy Cancer Cells Using Lasers and Nanoparticles

Using lasers and nanoparticles, scientists at Rice University have discovered a new technique for singling out individual diseased cells and destroying them with tiny explosions. The scientists used lasers to make "nanobubbles" by zapping gold nanoparticles inside cells. In tests on cancer cells, they found they could tune the lasers to create either small, bright bubbles that were visible but harmless or large bubbles that burst the cells.

5 Feb 2010

SunEdison Announces Activation of First Phase of Solar Farm in North Carolina

Has Initiated the Second Phase of Construction for the Project

5 Feb 2010

Rivermoor Energy to Start Construction of Largest Solar Project in Boston

Rivermoor Energy, a Newton-based solar development and investment firm specializing in commercial, government and utility projects, announces that construction will begin this month on the largest solar project in Boston. Developed and designed by the consortium of Rivermoor, Fischbach & Moore Electrical Group and Zapotec Energy, Inc., the 240-kilowatt project at Boston Water and Sewer Commission (BWSC) headquarters will connect to the NSTAR grid.

5 Feb 2010

United Solar to Supply UNI-SOLAR PV Laminates for Installations in Italy

United Solar Ovonic (United Solar), a wholly owned subsidiary of Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. (ECD) (Nasdaq: ENER), today confirmed that it will supply up to 25 MW of UNI-SOLAR® brand photovoltaic laminates to Enel Green Power for installation on a number of buildings owned by CIS-Interporto di Nola in Italy. Enel Green Power is the renewable energy operating company of the Enel Group, Italy's largest utility.

5 Feb 2010

Trina Solar to Supply 40MW of PV Modules to Germany-Based AE Photonics

Trina Solar Limited (TSL) ("Trina Solar" or the "Company"), a leading integrated manufacturer of solar photovoltaic (PV) products from the production of ingots, wafers and cells to the assembly of PV modules, today announced it has entered into an agreement with AE Photonics ("AE Photonics GmbH") of Germany for 40 MW of PV modules to be delivered during 2010.

5 Feb 2010