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New Infrared Hardware That Turns iPhone/iPod Touch into Remote Control

L5 Remote Debuts at CES 2010

5 Jan 2010

Testronic Labs to Open New 3D Test Lab in California

Testronic Laboratories, the global leader in quality assurance and testing services to the Blu-ray and Broadcast industries, has announced the opening of its new 3D Test Lab. Set to launch in the first quarter of 2010, the Testronic 3D Test Lab will be housed in the company’s 1st Street Facility, located in Burbank, CA.

5 Jan 2010

Smart GeoMetrics Uses its 3D Laser Technology to Scan USS Missouri Ship in Dry Dock

Smart GeoMetrics, a division of Smart MultiMedia, Inc. is on its second day of digital documentation of one of the world’s largest battleships in Hawaii. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to scan the ship’s entire hull while it is in dry dock in the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard.

5 Jan 2010

New Market Research Report on MEMS Technology

Definitions of industry terms and milestones in the development of MEMS. Global MEMS market trends, including data for 2008, estimates for 2009, and projections through 2014, with 5-year compound annual growth rates (CAGRs)

5 Jan 2010

New MP3 Players Featuring AMOLED Touch-Screen Display from Samsung

Samsung Electronics America, Inc., a market leader and award-winning innovator in consumer electronics, today unveiled two MP3 players designed for the media savvy and those concerned with managing their personal well-being.

5 Jan 2010

Interead to Release New ereader Models at Las Vegas International CES

Interead, makers of the COOL-ER line of ereaders, today announced new models that will be introduced at the 2010 International CES® in Las Vegas.

5 Jan 2010

Scientists Used Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope to Study Gaseous Intergalactic Streamer

A giant stream of gas flowing from neighbor galaxies around our own Milky Way is much longer and older than previously thought, astronomers have discovered. The new revelations provide a fresh insight on what started the gaseous intergalactic streamer.

5 Jan 2010

NOAO Blanco Telescope Helps Astronomers Spot Most Powerful Star Explosion

University of Notre Dame astronomer Peter Garnavich and a team of collaborators have discovered a distant star that exploded when its center became so hot that matter and anti-matter particle pairs were created. The star, dubbed Y-155, began its life around 200 times the mass of our Sun but probably became "pair-unstable" and triggered a runaway thermonuclear reaction that made it visible nearly halfway across the universe.

5 Jan 2010

Images of Solar Corona Taken During Eclipse Reveal New Findings

Solar physicists attempting to unlock the mysteries of the solar corona have found another piece of the puzzle by observing the sun's outer atmosphere during eclipses

5 Jan 2010

Kepler Telescope Helps Discover New Exoplanets

Orbiting Telescope Designed to Find Earth-Like Planets

5 Jan 2010

KMSA Unleashes CM-5 Spectrophotometer in US

Konica Minolta Sensing Americas, Inc. (KMSA), the worldwide leader in the industrial measurement of color, light and shape, announces the US launch of its next generation color measurement instrument

5 Jan 2010

Global Market Research 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 An overview of medical laser applications, including cosmetic, diagnostic, surgical, and therapeutic A breakdown of the market by regions, and by technologies, including gas, dye, metal-vapor, and solid-state lasers.

5 Jan 2010

Market Research Report Released on Nanocomposites

Global market trends, with sales data for 2008, estimates for 2009, and projections for 5-year compound annual growth rates through 2014

5 Jan 2010

Avago Launches New Through-Hole LEDs for Use in Electronic Sign

Avago Technologies (Nasdaq: AVGO), a leading supplier of analog interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications, today announced a new series of 5mm green and blue high brightness, high performance Through-hole LEDs for use in Electronic Sign and Signal applications. Avago’s competitively priced HLMP-Cxxx Through-hole round LED lamp series provide high reliability performance and high luminous intensity in electronic signs to help improve the contrast ratio and readability in sunlight. These new LEDs are also ideal for use in Traffic Signs, Variable Message Signs, and Monocolor Signs.

5 Jan 2010

New Energy Creates See-Thru Solar Glass Window That Generates Electricity

New Energy Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: NENE), currently developing MotionPower™ technologies for generating electricity from the kinetic energy of moving vehicles and SolarWindow™ technologies capable of generating electricity on glass windows, today announced that researchers have overcome a significant scientific hurdle in creating the first-of-its-kind see-thru solar glass by replacing a visibility-blocking solid metal component with environmentally-friendly, non-metallic, transparent compounds.

5 Jan 2010