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Monthly Archives: July 2006

OSRAM high-brightness LED-based lamps replace popular halogens

Monday, July 31, 2006

OSRAM Opto Semiconductors has announced that its OSTAR high-brightness LED in multi-chip on board technology is being used in new energy-efficient halogen-replacement lamps from Lighting Science Group Corporation. The new lamps offer a direct alternative to popular MR-16 metalized reflector halogens in industrial and commercial applications. From the release: The MR-16 lamp from LSG will [...]

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Eyeglass-mounted LCDs, POF-to-Ethernet transceiver kit, PC keyboard, INAs

Monday, July 31, 2006

Today’s new product picks at Electronic Products: Eyeglass-mounted LCD monitors from Lumus provide a color image with a QVGA resolution A plastic optical fiber-to Ethernet transceiver kit from Infineon Technologies provides a low-cost, secure home networking solution with virtually no bandwidth limitations A USB PC keyboard from New Standard Keyboards has just 53 keys and [...]

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Manned airplane runs on batteries

Friday, July 28, 2006

In a feat never before attempted, a manned airplane running only on battery power has been flown successfully. The one-seat plane, powered by 160 AA-size Panasonic Oxyride dry cell batteries, flew a distance of 391.4 meters at an altitude of 6.11 meters for 59 s at Okegawa Airport, outside of Tokyo. The flight, which took [...]

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Power MOSFETs, low-cost CPLDs, digital power supply controller, real-time data recorder

Friday, July 28, 2006

Today’s new product picks at Electronic Products: 1.9-W power MOSFETs from ON Semiconductor use exposed-drain DFN technology for a thermal resistance of 38°C/W CPLDs from Altera target portable applications by offering very small packages, a power-down capability, and low cost A digital power supply controller/monitor from Maxim Integrated Products converts an all-analog power supply to [...]

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Student engineers gather to design, build ‘green’ vehicles

Thursday, July 27, 2006

Student engineers from over 21 universities around the world are currently gathered at a 9-week green transportation design summit at MIT to design and build between five and ten practical, alternative-powered commuter vehicles with 500-mpg equivalence. Once built, the vehicles – which will use human power, biofuels, solar power, and fuel cells – will tour [...]

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Bikini Beach Overexposure!

Thursday, July 27, 2006

Designers have come up with a way to prevent bikini wearers from overexposing themselves. Before the sexist male beach-going public gets up in arms, it’s not what you think. Canadian beachwear purveyor Solestrom has deveoped a swimsuit, the SmartSwim UV Meter Bikini, that has a UV-index meter (0 to 19.9 in 0.01 point steps) built [...]

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Rugged LED 6S6-bulb replacement lamp, external HDD, LED driver, ultrafast rectifiers

Thursday, July 27, 2006

Today’s new product picks at Electronic Products: An LED lamp from CML Innovative Technologies can replace 6S6 bulbs in applications from theme-park accent lighting to theater marquees An external hard disk drive from Other World Computing features quad interfaces, enabling operation with virtually any computer system A high-voltage boost converter from Catalyst Semiconductor is designed [...]

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