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Monthly Archives: December 2010

Highly flexible display to deliver high resolution

Thursday, December 30, 2010

At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, NV, next week, Samsung Mobile Display plans to unveil a prototype of a 4.5-in. active-matrix organic LED display that is highly flexible and has a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels, said to be four times greater than that of the previous most flexible AMOLED prototype. The [...]

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Pre-CES:HB-LEDs green LEDs will make LED projectors for data apps a reality

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

I plan to be updating on eebeat, some products that will be showcased at CES.  However some companies already gave me the scoop of what they will be showcasing, so here goes: OSRAM Opto Semiconductor (www.osram-os.com ) last month announce that they have developed a pre-production green LED based on the OSTAR platform which is [...]

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ENERGY STAR UPS Program Update

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

In February, the US EPA started the development of a new ENERGY STAR efficiency program covering Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS) (see Mr. Green blog Interrupting Non-interruptible Energy Waste). At that time, the plan was to have the program specification requirements finalized by the end of 2010. Due to the variety of products covered, progress has [...]

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ENERGY STAR Begins Work on Small Network Equipment Spec

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

The process continues to create the first ENERGY STAR small network equipment (SNE) specification. On November 17th, the agency announced that they would begin to gather data for the purpose of drafting the spec. At that time, a test method was also published. Stakeholder feedback on the test method was due by December 10th, 2010. [...]

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Watch the “world’s smallest battery” in action!

Monday, December 20, 2010

My Outlook article for our January 2011 issue is about the “world’s smallest” lithium battery created by the research team at Sandia National Laboratories. The team created the battery inside of a transmission electron microscope (TEM) at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT) so they could observe the effect of charging on the battery. What [...]

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CES2011: 22 more days to go

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Twenty-two more days till the CES2011, but who is counting.  For the first time at CES, a luxury car manufacturer will present a keynote speech. Mr. Rupert Stadler, Chairman of the Board of Management of AUDI AG, will talk about his vision of the automobile in tomorrow’s society. His presentation will demonstrate the wide-ranging competence of the [...]

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New and Improved EuP Widget

Thursday, December 2, 2010

An updated EuP Ecodesign Standards Finder (a.k.a. EuP Widget) allows users to select an application from an A-to-Z listing and then immediately view the EuP Ecodesign Tier One and Tier Two limits for standby, active-mode, and no-load power consumption. Links to relevant reference designs are also displayed in the search results. In addition, I’ve freshened-up [...]

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