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Monthly Archives: January 2010

Levitating magnet may yield new approach to clean energy

Thursday, January 28, 2010

A new experiment that reproduces the magnetic fields of the Earth and other planets has yielded its first significant results. The findings confirm that its unique approach has some potential to be developed as a new way of creating a power-producing plant based on nuclear fusion — the process that generates the sun’s prodigious output [...]

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Magic time — iPad Tutorial

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

“Yeah, it’s true. When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical. And that’s exactly what the iPad is.” — Jony Ive, Apple Senior Vice President, Design You can see the iPad demo video at: http://www.apple.com/ipad/#video

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Apple announces the iPad

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

There has been a lot of hype about the iPad from Apple. Today Steve Jobs announced the product and showed off some of its features, including an almost full size touch screen keyboard. Apple has once again reached into a new market for itself, as they did with the iPhone and IPod. According to an article on BusineesWeek [...]

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ENERGY STAR Incorporates Lighting Facts Label Into New LED Spec

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Last fall, I wrote about final changes ENERGY STAR was making to its requirements for integral LED light bulbs (see: ENERGY STAR Continues Integral LED Light Bulb Spec Quest). The final version of the new requirements came out last month and, after taking another look at the new spec, I noticed something interesting. On page [...]

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TDK-Lambda Powers Giant HDTV Stadium Screens

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

There has been a lot of TV coverage recently concerning the giant scoreboards at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, home of the Dallas Cowboys. The $40 million dollar, four-sided, high-definition Diamond Vision video displays, which were built by Mitsubishi Electric, use 22,000 TDK-Lambda ZWS series power supplies to light the 25 million Light Emitting Diodes [...]

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Canadians Take a Second Look at Mandatory Standby Power Specs

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Standby Power Performance Standards Get Trimmed: Natural Resources Canada has decided to remove two product categories from its soon-to-be-released standby power performance standards. In addition, certain standards for other products will not be included in the spec.

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National Instruments Introduces LabVIEW Robotics 2009 for Designing Sophisticated Robotics Control Systems

Thursday, January 14, 2010

National Instruments today announced LabVIEW Robotics 2009, a new version of its graphical system design software that provides a standard development platform for designing robotic and autonomous control systems. NI LabVIEW Robotics 2009 delivers an extensive robotics library with connectivity to standard robotic sensors and actuators, foundational algorithms for intelligent operations and perception and motion [...]

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