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Carl Zeiss Extend the Capabilities of Their Award Winning Confocal Microscope

The award winning LSM 780 from Carl Zeiss has an almost doubled rate of sensitivity and counting and increased speed and image quality that lets the user analyze single molecules at a new level.

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 12 Dec 2011

Researcher Designs AVOID Volcanic Ash Camera for Passenger Aircrafts

Fred Prata, a Senior Scientist at the Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU), demonstrated the novel AVOID, a volcanic ash camera, to the European media, after performing successful flight experiments across Stromboli and Mount Etna volcano in Italy for 10 days.

By Andy Choi 12 Dec 2011

Rigid Industries Selects Marketing Agent for its Marine Series LED Lighting Array

Rigid Industries, a provider of high performance LED lighting devices has declared that Northwest Marine Group and Great Lakes Marine Marketing have been selected to represent its Marine Series LED lighting array.

By Andy Choi 12 Dec 2011

Cooper Lighting Products Added to City Furniture Superstore

Cooper Lighting, a provider of lighting fixtures and controls, has declared that its products have been included in a City Furniture superstore.

By Andy Choi 12 Dec 2011

Siemens Healthcare to Deliver Imaging Systems and Software to Brazilian Alliar

Siemens Healthcare obtained orders from a particular supplier in Latin America regarding equipments for medical imaging.

By Andy Choi 12 Dec 2011

LED Waves Starts Launching LED Lights in USA

LED Waves, based in Brooklyn, apart from being an OEM, supplies customized and retrofit lighting products. Formerly, domestic production was restricted to projects for private OEM customers. However, this year marks the beginning of a new phase for the company.

By Andy Choi 12 Dec 2011

Rich Brilliant Willing’s Lighting Collection Available at Lumens.com

Rich Brilliant Willing’s lighting series has been launched by Lumens Light + Living. An innovative product design approach has resulted in its rising global success. Established in 2007, Rich Brilliant Willing has engineered products for its very own array of contemporary lighting and for other companies including Innermost and Roll & Hill.

By Andy Choi 12 Dec 2011

New Imaging Technique for Detecting Atherosclerotic Plaque

Pu Wang and his colleagues from Purdue University, West Lafayette, and Indiana University School of Medicine (USA) have now developed a promising new one method for characterization of atherosclerotic plaque.

From John Wiley and Sons - Scientific Publishers 11 Dec 2011

Researchers Develop Ultrasensitive Method by Coupling Atoms to Light in Glass Fiber

A research team led by Professor Arno Rauschenbeutel Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology, in partnership with the researchers at the Johannes Gutenberg University has developed an ultrasensitive method by controllably coupling single atoms to light within ultra-thin fiber glass having a thickness of 500 nm, paving the way to develop detectors that are capable of sensing ultra-trace amounts of materials.

By Andy Choi 9 Dec 2011

METaL Lab of Iowa State Facilitates Virtual Imaging for Industrial Research

Ryan Pavlik and Leif Berg, the doctoral students of Iowa State University were provided with a pair of 3-D glasses and a Wii remote. Iowa State’s Multimodal Experience Testbed and Laboratory (METaL), a new virtual reality lab has been operating since February and is intended to be an everyday research tool.

By Andy Choi 9 Dec 2011

Implementation Agreement for OTN Switching Accomplished by OIF

Members of the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) validated an implementation agreement (IA) for OTN-over-Packet-Fabric Protocol. The OIF initiative presents the market demand for architectural challenges, packet and optical convergence, along with transporting Packet and OTN traffic on a general cell switching or packet fabric.

By Andy Choi 9 Dec 2011