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WRTL’s Stela LED Luminaire Illuminate Abandoned Footpath

An old abandoned footpath connecting a Merthyr Tydfil College and Recreation Centre has been brought back to life with the help of WRTL’s Stela LED luminaire.

20 Nov 2009

Stela LED Street Lights Featured on BBC Programme

Stela LED street lights from WRTL Exterior Lighting have once again hit the headlines when they were featured on the BBC 1 Inside Out programme.

20 Nov 2009

Cypress Semiconductor Unveils New Evaluation Kits for LCD Segment Drive Applications

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ:CY) today introduced two evaluation kits showing the ease-of-use, fast development time and flexibility of its new PSoC 3 architecture for LCD segment drive applications. The new CY8CKIT-006 PSoC 3 LCD Segment Drive Evaluation Kit and the CY8CKIT-029 PSoC LCD Segment Drive Expansion Board Kit demonstrate how a single PSoC 3 device can drive up to 736 LCD segments, more than any microcontroller-based solution. With the kits, designers can leverage the drag-and-drop LCD Drive component in the PSoC Creator™ Integrated Development Environment (IDE) to quickly and easily design products with an LCD screen for the consumer electronics, handheld, medical, industrial, white goods, automotive and other markets.

20 Nov 2009

Universal Display and Arizona State University Join to Fabricate PHOLEDs for US Army

Universal Display Corporation (NASDAQ:PANL), an innovator behind today’s and tomorrow’s displays and lighting through its UniversalPHOLED™ phosphorescent OLED technology, and the Flexible Display Center (FDC) at Arizona State University, today announced that they have strengthened their collaboration to extend to the joint fabrication of prototype active-matrix PHOLEDs on flexible plastic substrates for the U.S. Department of Army. In addition, Universal Display announced that the company has been awarded a $650,000 U.S. Army Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II Enhancement contract to support this work.

20 Nov 2009

PureSpectrum Progresses in Finalizing Product Launch of CFL and Linear Fluorescent Products

PureSpectrum, Inc. (OTCBB: PSRU) has continued to make progress toward finalizing a product launch plan that will include additional products in both the Compact Fluorescent Lamp (CFL) and linear fluorescent categories.

20 Nov 2009

Creative Lighting to Distribute ClearLite Natural Light CFLs, Lamps and Lighting Products

Clear-Lite Holdings, Inc. (“ClearLite”) (OTCBB: CLRH), a leading innovator of eco-friendly lighting and the appreciably safer ArmorLite™ CFL, today announced that Creative Lighting, LLC, Pompano Beach, FL, a leading distributor of lighting and electrical products to businesses and government agencies, will be ClearLite’s first commercial distributor of ClearLite’s line of eco-friendly, “natural light” CFLs, lamps and lighting products.

20 Nov 2009

SunPower Completes Installation of Solar Rooftop System at Agilent Headquarters, California

SunPower Corp. ( SPWRA, SPWRB), a Silicon Valley-based manufacturer of high-efficiency solar cells, solar panels and solar systems, today announced the completion of a 1-megawatt solar power rooftop system on three buildings at Agilent's headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif. This is SunPower's second project with Agilent, following the design and installation of a 1-megawatt solar tracking system at Agilent's Santa Rosa, Calif., campus last year. Agilent expects to save $3.5 million in energy costs in the first 10 years of operation.

20 Nov 2009

PerkinElmer and Gilson Partner to Offer Mass Spectroscopy to Scientists

PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on the health and safety of people and the environment, and Gilson, Inc., an industry leader in purification systems for liquid chromatography (LC) and solid phase extraction (SPE), today announced a mass spectroscopy (MS) collaboration to support pharmaceutical and biotech scientists.

19 Nov 2009

New Miniature Microscope Helps in Precise Brain Tumor Surgery

A new miniature, hand-held microscope may allow more precise removal of brain tumors and an easier recognition of tumor locations during surgery.

19 Nov 2009

Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 from Hubble Space Telescope Now Kept in Washington Museum

Two key instruments from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have a new home in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington after being returned to Earth aboard space shuttle Atlantis last May.

19 Nov 2009

Latest Images From ESA Mars Webcam Posted Online

The 45-image set was acquired 18 November 2009 during Mars Express orbit No. 7537, between 07:30-08:07 UTC (08:30-09:07 CET)

19 Nov 2009

Freescale Semiconductor Announces Expansion of LCD S08LL Microcontroller Portfolio

Freescale Semiconductor is expanding its 8-bit microcontroller (MCU) portfolio with devices ideal for personal diagnostic and portable health care products that require low-power operation and advanced display capabilities. An extension of its liquid crystal display (LCD) S08LL microcontroller (MCU) families, the advanced S08LL64 allows engineers to quickly develop dependable, flexible and low-cost medical, industrial and consumer devices.

19 Nov 2009

Researchers Observe 3D Cellular Interactions Using High Speed Camera

An ultrasensitive, high speed camera has helped US researchers see the 3D spatial relationship between cellular structures – mitochondria and microtubules – with nanometre-scale resolution, for the first time.

19 Nov 2009

Aperio Obtains US Patent Entitled 'Image Processing and Analysis Framework'

Aperio Technologies, Inc., (Aperio), a global leader in digital pathology for the healthcare and life sciences industry, announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued the company patent No. 7,602,524 entitled "Image Processing and Analysis Framework."

19 Nov 2009

Edmund Optics Releases New Catalog Featuring 2000 New Optical Components

Edmund Optics (EO), the premier provider of optical components, was recently ranked #1 as the preferred optical supplier with excellent customer service and delivery practices. To reinforce its position Edmund Optics’ new Fall 2009 Master Source Book delivers a strong message on their extended customer services and support.

19 Nov 2009