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Daktronics Unveiled the Most Advanced Digital Billboard Available

Daktronics Inc., the world's top digital billboard manufacturer, today unveiled the 12 mm Valo(TM) Optimized Technology digital billboard, the most advanced digital billboard available. Featuring wide viewing angles, enhanced contrast and a high-density pixel configuration for close-up viewing, the 12 mm Valo(TM) OT delivers the sharpest images in outdoor advertising.

11 Jun 2008

Blind to Light, Normal Vision Intact

Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have found that eliminating a third sensor - cells expressing a photopigment called melanopsin that measures the intensity of incoming light - makes the circadian clock blind to light, yet leaves normal vision intact.

11 Jun 2008

PI Extends Line of Piezo Stages for Scanning Microscopy Applications

PI (Physik Instrumente) has extended its line of piezo stages for scanning microscopy applications. The P-737 Piezo Z-Focusing Stage is offered along with the stiffer, P-726 high performance microscope lens focusing system for large NA microscope objectives and the redesigned P-686 XY piezo motor positioning stage providing long travel ranges to 25x25 mm.

From PI (Physik Instrumente) LP 10 Jun 2008

ScanEagle Helps Warfighters Adapt to Conditions with Poor Visibility

The Boeing Company, in partnership with ImSAR and Insitu Inc., achieved a major milestone in May with the real-time processing of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data aboard a ScanEagle unmanned aircraft (UA) equipped with a standard inertially stabilized electro-optical (EO) camera.

10 Jun 2008

The Importance of Near Infrared Chemical Imaging to the Pharnaceuticals Industry Demonstrated by Malvern

In an interview recorded at IFPAC 2008, Dr Neil Lewis, Chief Technology Officer for Malvern Instruments, and a pioneer in the field of chemical imaging, highlights the value of Near Infrared Chemical Imaging (NIR-CI) for the pharmaceutical industry.

10 Jun 2008

A Valuable Tool for Pilots and Aviation Users

Searidge Technologies, a provider of mission critical technology solutions and services to the Air Traffic Control and Airport Operations industry, today announced that NAV CANADA has selected the IntelliDAR(TM) imaging platform and associated services, from Searidge Technologies, to build a system capable of weather monitoring in remote locations. The system will be deployed in up to 130 sites across Canada.

10 Jun 2008

Primary Mirror Blank Assembly Delivered to ITT for GeoEye-2

GeoEye, Inc., a premier provider of satellite, aerial and geospatial information, announced that the glass mirror blank for its advanced, next-generation Earth imaging satellite has been delivered to ITT Corporation.

10 Jun 2008

Video Correction LSI Significantly Improves Video Quality Under Low Light

Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. today announced it has developed "ML87V21072," a video correction LSI for monitoring cameras with a noise reduction function and a FIFO frame memory.

10 Jun 2008

The Most Cutting-Edge Technology Available for Indoor Display Systems

Mitsubishi Electric has been chosen by Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment (MLSE) to supply and install a new 17-screen scoreboard featuring a cutting-edge Diamond Vision(TM) high-definition display system at the Air Canada Centre, home of the NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs and the NBA's Toronto Raptors.

9 Jun 2008

Model Predicts Price Decline for LED Backlights will be Steep

But costs remain an issue in the adoption of LED backlights for larger-sized LCDs. Using a new cost model tool developed by Insight Media and validated by industry experts, the model finds that the price decline for LED backlights will be steep, allowing a rapid changeover to begin around 2011.

5 Jun 2008