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Johnson Controls reveals new hybrid-electric car batteries

Milwaukee - Automotive supplier Johnson Controls unveiled its newest products this week at the 2005 North American International Auto Show in Detroit. The additions to the line are part of the companys plan to build on their existing technology, increasing ease of use for customers and branchin...

Johnson Controls partners on car satellite linkup

Milwaukee, Wis. - TomTom , a navigation solution provider based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and Johnson Controls Inc. in Milwaukee have announced a joint development relationship which will enable TomTom satellite navigation devices to become integrated into automotive electronic systems. Jo...

GreenHouse Debuts the World's First E-Fuel MicroFuelerTM in Los Angeles

...an corn or other food-based products). Using patented semiconductor technology, the appliance-sized unit both produces ethanol and pumps it into your car directly from your residence. The GreenHouse team delivers raw material and maintains your home-based unit as part of the service package it offers. ...

Brain Monitor Eliminates Need for Routine Oxygen With Propofol - Friedberg's Triad Unveiled

...ant to change that little thought is given to the anesthesia that will accompany the surgery. Some studies say patients pay more attention to the next car they will purchase than the anesthesia for their cosmetic surgery. Propofol or Diprivan, the drug recently found at Michael Jackson's home, has be...

Intruder alert: Tel Aviv University's 'Smart Dew' will find you!

...sensors - each equipped with a controller and RF transmitter/receiver - can also be wirelessly networked to detect the difference between man, animal, car and truck. "We've created a generic system that has no scale limitations," says Prof. Shapira. This makes it especially useful for large farms or e...

Intruder alert: Tel Aviv University's 'Smart Dew' will find you!

...sensors - each equipped with a controller and RF transmitter/receiver - can also be wirelessly networked to detect the difference between man, animal, car and truck. "We've created a generic system that has no scale limitations," says Prof. Shapira. This makes it especially useful for large farms or e...

Former EPA official calls for new environmental and consumer protection agency

...et understood risks to human health and the environment. These novel materials improve performance of almost any product imaginable, from cosmetics to car batteries to cancer treatments, but little is know about the risks they may pose and there are many questions concerning their life-cycle impact. "...

Intruder alert: Tel Aviv University's 'Smart Dew' will find you!

...sensors - each equipped with a controller and RF transmitter/receiver - can also be wirelessly networked to detect the difference between man, animal, car and truck. "We've created a generic system that has no scale limitations," says Prof. Shapira. This makes it especially useful for large farms or e...

Brazil's top automakers to distribute 2 million copies of the 'Ethanol Handbook' in partnership with the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association

... chemical giant BASF announced earlier this year. Together, the four automakers involved in the partnership with UNICA answer for 80% of the Brazilian car market. Almost 100% of cars produced by the four companies in Brazil are flex-fuel. The companies also market imported models which are gasoline power...

UB engineers prove that carbon nanotubes are superior to metals for electronics

...ist because of the limitations of conventional metals. "When an electric car finally is manufactured, its batteries probably will be based on carbon nan...eality, U.S. electronics manufacturers may be in a position similar to U.S. car manufacturers today, because they have failed to keep up with advances in e...

Heart Disease: An Epidemic For Firefighters

...perko. "And, consider the emotional and psychological stress they encounter each day as they respond to society's most brutal moments from murders to car wrecks and death. Finally, those who serve as first responders have a mind-set and a desire to help people. They certainly bring a competitive natur...

Re-Shaping the Future with Shape Memory Alloys - SMA Starter Kit

... clips, three pieces of spring steel (varying thicknesses) and other materials used to perform SMA wire actuator demonstrations. So next time your car door receives a dent, picture the future where you watch the dent pop back out with the application of a little heat - any hair dryer will do! If ...

Rice rolls out new nanocars

...materials science and computer science. Tour's original single-molecule car had buckyball wheels and flexible axles, and it served as a proof-of-concep...representation of the nanocar made its public debut in Houston's famous Art car Parade last year. Rice's Stephan Link, an assistant professor of chemist...

Enerkem announces first commercial-scale biofuels and biochemicals plant is entering start-up phase

...eration ethanol annually. The Enerkem thermo-chemical process uses one tonne of waste to produce 360 litres (95 gallons) of ethanol: enough fuel for a car to travel 2,500 km (1,550 miles), the distance from Winnipeg to Montreal, or Los Angeles to Houston. Enerkem's renewable fuels represent a new techn...

AlloSource, Tissue Recipient Join 'Stars of Life' Affected by Organ and Tissue Donation Aboard Donate Life Float in 2009 Rose Parade(R)

...until a tissue transplant gave her new hope. Her knee was saved after she received a fresh tissue transplant from a young donor who lost his life in a car accident. Since her transplant, Chen has returned to martial arts competition with continued success. She serves as judge in international compet...

USC researchers print dense lattice of transparent nanotube transistors on flexible base

... Its University of Southern California creators believe the prototype points the way to such long sought after applications as affordable "head-up" car windshield displays. The lattices could also be used to create cheap, ultra thin, low-power "e-paper" displays. They might even be incorporated in...

Comedy 'Horror In The Wind' Banned In New Mexico

...t; According to Weber, "The movie cost less than $53,000. Miraculous for any feature but even more so considering we have an airplane and a car explosion. Except for Allen Theaters, the people of southern New Mexico really supported this project with lots of free stuff." "James...

From Race Cars and Google Doodles to Day Spas and Night Lights: Groups Across the U.S. Prepare to Join World Diabetes Day Celebrations on November 14

...ngo Racing, a team of Silicon Valley, California professionals, is making its second run at the Baja 1000, campaigning the official World Diabetes Day car in the race, a 1969 VW Beetle. "We're doing another drive-a-thon fundraiser for IDF's education and awareness programs," said team co-founder Mike A...

Avantium Completes EUR 18 Million Financing Round

...d bioplastic program is on large scale production of Furanics and extensive car testing. Avantium's pharmaceutical program encompasses the improvement of s...gh-resolution pictures of Avantium laboratories, Furanics biofuels and test car are available on request. About Aescap Aescap Venture is a venture capi...

HealthYes! - Premier Provider of Mobile Preventive Medical Screenings - Launches in Alamo City

...'s motivations for starting HealthYes! include having two family members pass away within one-year's time, including his 68-year-old father dying in a car wreck in 2005 in San Antonio while having a massive heart attack. Dale saw an opportunity to start a company that would provide a valuable service. He...

New knowledge about thermoelectric materials could give better energy efficiency

...thout degrading the electrical properties. This can be crucial for the conversion of wasted heat, for example, from vehicle exhaust emissions. Leading car manufacturers are now working to develop this possibility and the first models are close to production. The technology is expected to give the cars co...

Understanding the science of solar-based energy: more researchers are better than one

...drogen and oxygen gases produced will be usable by a fuel cell, where they will react to reform water, generating electricity for powering an electric car or other devices. The gases may also be used as a source of energy after the sun goes down, and will generate a carbon-neutral or oil-free source of e...

Clemson scientists put a (nano) spring in their step

... can be grown in a single step using a proprietary hydrocarbon-catalyst mixture. The group also envisions coiled nanotubes in soldiers' body armor, car bumpers and bushings and even as cushioning elements in shoe soles. "The problem we have faced in the past is producing enough of these coiled carb...

Alkemists Sets The Bar, Becoming a 'Green' Analytical Laboratory

... emissions were found to be approximately 31 metric tons of CO2. To put that in perspective, that is about the same environmental impact as driving a car almost 76,000 miles! It is equivalent to taking about 6 cars off the road annually or planting more than 4,100 trees. Furthermore, by offsetting these...

Microscopic 'clutch' puts flagellum in neutral

...e action of the protein they discovered, EpsE, is very similar to that of a car clutch. In cars, the clutch controls whether a car's engine is connected to... spin its wheels. With the engine and gears disengaged from each other, the car may continue to move, but only because of its prior momentum; the wheels ar...

Microrobots dance on something smaller than a pin's head

...ultimately assemble into group micro-huddles that could set the stage for something more elaborate. "Initially, we wanted to build something like a car that could drive around at the microscopic scale," Donald said. "Now what we've been able to do is create the first microscopic traffic jam." He sa...

Shire Launches Nationwide Adult ADHD Mobile Awareness Tour

... -- Forty-seven percent more likely to have trouble saving money to pay bills; -- Two times more likely to have been involved in three or more car crashes; -- Forty-seven percent more likely to have received more than one speeding ticket in a 12-month period. Adults who think they m...

Celebrities to Attend and Present at D.R.E.a.M.S in the City

...allures, a chance to play golf in a foursome with Strahan, an exclusive autographed helmet signed by the NY Giants Super Bowl team, and a "Robb Report car of the Year" experience, whereby the lucky winner will join editors at an exciting location to spend two days evaluating cars and sharing driving impr...

More solid than solid: A potential hydrogen-storage compound

... One of the key engineering challenges to building a clean, efficient, hydrogen-powered car is how to design the fuel tank. Storing enough raw hydrogen for a reasonable driving range would require either impractically high pressures for gaseo...

Engineers make first 'active matrix' display using nanowires

...lass of transparent transistors and circuits, a step toward realizing applications such as e-paper, flexible color monitors and "heads-up" displays in car windshields. The transistors are made of "nanowires," tiny cylindrical structures that are assembled on glass or thin films of flexible plastic. Th...

Boston College, MIT researchers achieve dramatic increase in thermoelectric efficiency

...r a new generation of products from semiconductors and air conditioners to car exhaust systems and solar power technology that run cleaner. The teams...ting with ways to use thermoelectric materials to convert waste heat from a car exhaust systems into electric current to help power vehicles. ...

Cord Blood America Subsidiary Featured at NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Race

...ilies nationwide and internationally, today announced its wholly owned subsidiary, RainMakers International, was featured with their logo prominent on car #49 at the Sunday, March 2, NASCAR UAW-Dodge 400 race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The race was featured on the FOX network. "This is one of NASCAR'...

Virgin Atlantic to Offer Zero-Emissions GM Hydrogen Fuel Cell Limousines to Upper Class Passengers

... - Hydrogen-powered Chevrolet Equinox car to be used for limo service - Fuel Cell Technology On The Ground in Los A...will offer passengers a zero-emissions Chevrolet Equinox Hydrogen Fuel Cell car as part of its Upper Class limo service. Initially passengers in Los Angele...

NASA MidSTAR-1 successful technologies may be revolutionary

...ildings and homes to reduce solar heat gain in the summer and decrease heat loss in the winter. One day, it could be possible to control the tint of a car window with the press of a button. The variable emissivity film was manufactured by Eclipse Energy Systems Inc., of St. Petersburg, Fla., with join...

Knee brace generates electricity from walking

...al engineering at U-M and an author of the paper. Regenerative brakes collect the kinetic energy that would otherwise be dissipated as heat when a car slows down. This knee brace harvests the energy lost when a human brakes the knee after swinging the leg forward to take a step. Kuo, who called th...

Texas Boy Receives Wheelchair From New Hampshire Couple's Recently Deceased Granddaughter

... yet to be determined.) The Austin mother, Lori Carbajal, was driving her car in November when it was rear ended by a hit-and-run driver. In the accident...ion to the specialized wheelchair, the Andrews family is donating Chrissy's car seat, a lift with net to help Carbajal transport Peanut from the wheelchair...

Microfabrica Introduces Set of Miniature 'Building Blocks' for Minimally-Invasive Medical Devices

...ct: Irene Ajemyan (818) 786-3322 Ext. 150 Photos available upon request: Turbine built using Microfabrica's EFAB(r) technology. Four-direction car jack-like 'expander' next to a penny. Ultra-flexible metal mesh basket approximately 2 mm wide. This release was issued through eReleases(TM). For...

Good Neighbor Pharmacy Joins with Diversified Racing Solutions to Enter NASCAR Nationwide Series in 2008

... addition, GNP will fund country-wide community outreach activities that compliment the racing schedule. "The branding of the Good Neighbor Pharmacy car demonstrates AmerisourceBergen's commitment to independent pharmacy and NASCAR," said Dave Neu, Senior Vice President of Retail Sales and Marketing fo...

Understanding of actuator properties of carbon nanotubes bring micro machines closer

...n size working around us, in us and for us. Imagine them seeking out diseases, cleaning the environment and making the world a better place. Just as a car is a combination of a whole series of separate items, engine, suspension, wheels, electronics, chassis, etc, nanomachines too need to be constructed f...

MIT: Thermoelectric materials are 1 key to energy savings

...stantial energy savings by allowing more efficient car engines, photovoltaic cells and electronic devices...nsumer product: a simple, efficient way of cooling car seats in hot climates. The devices, similar to the more-familiar car seat heaters, provide comfort directly to the indi...