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Padda Institute Offers Advanced Laser Tattoo Removal with Multi-Wavelength Astanza Trinity Laser

The Padda Institute Center for Laser and Aesthetic Medicine is now offering advanced laser tattoo removal in St. Louis with the multi-wavelength Astanza Trinity laser. In addition to laser tattoo removal, the Padda Institute Center for Laser and Aesthetic Medicine offers an array of aesthetic procedures including facials, MicroLaserPeels and ProFractional treatments, chemical peels, laser hair removal, and vein treatments.

17 Jul 2015

CSRmesh Technology Helps SK Telecom's Smart LED Lightbulbs to Function as Bluetooth® Smart Beacons

CSR plc today announced that its CSRmesh™ technology has been used by SK Telecom to enable the world’s first range of smart LED lightbulbs which also function as Bluetooth® Smart beacons networked together using CSRmesh. The intelligent CSRmesh lighting system will allow an almost unlimited number of smart lightbulbs to be simply controlled and networked together in-store while also enabling location-based special offers and targeted information to smartphone users.

17 Jul 2015

Sierra-Olympic Introduces Cox CX320 Thermography Camera System for Machine Vision and R&D

Sierra-Olympic Technologies introduces the Cox CX320 Thermography Camera, an uncooled LWIR camera system for machine vision, process monitoring, and benchtop R&D applications.

From Sierra-Olympic Technologies Inc. 16 Jul 2015

NASA's New Horizons Mission Provides Surprising Insight into Pluto's Surface

NASA’s New Horizons team have announced a series of discoveries including a new, vivid view of Pluto’s largest moon, Charon and the icy mountains on Pluto just one day after the spacecraft’s first ever flyby.

By Alexander Chilton 16 Jul 2015

Fluke Expands Portfolio of Lenses for Infrared Cameras

Infrared inspections often involve analyzing temperature variations on something extremely small or too far away to see the needed detail with standard lenses. Two new lenses for Fluke infrared cameras bring those worlds into sharper focus.

16 Jul 2015

Penetration Depth a Main Issue with Light-Based Technology for Improving Food Safety

Light-based technologies are emerging as tools to enhance food shelf life and guard against food contaminants but more research needs to be done, warn food scientists at a July 13 panel discussion at IFT15: Where Science Feeds Innovation hosted by the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) in Chicago.

16 Jul 2015

Blue LEDs Demonstrate Strong Antibacterial Effect on Major Foodborne Pathogens

A team of scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has found that blue light emitting diodes (LEDs) have strong antibacterial effect on major foodborne pathogens, and are most effective when in cold temperatures (between 4°C and 15°C) and mildly acidic conditions of around pH 4.5.

16 Jul 2015

Lumileds Introduces Next Generation LUXEON CoB Core Range LEDs

Continuing to roll out chip-on-board (CoB) LEDs with ever higher efficacy and flux combinations, Lumileds today introduces the next generation LUXEON CoB Core Range.

16 Jul 2015

Pinkhouse Blooms Replaces Archaic HID/HPS Lighting with Heliospectra's LED Luminaires

Pinkhouse Blooms LLC., a leading cannabis cultivation and dispensary operation focused on high quality product development, strain diversity, energy efficiency and overall operational sustainability, has replaced all of their archaic lighting with Heliospectra's LED luminaires.

16 Jul 2015