A summer barbecue by the lake – as the sausages sizzle on the grill some of the party would like to watch the soccer on TV.
Today, a choice has to be made whether to stay by the lake or watch the match on a big public screen or the TV set at home. In future, barbecue enthusiasts and football fans will be able to enjoy both at the same time. Cellphone TV is coming closer and with an innovative mini beamer it will be possible to create a public viewing event on a small scale – for example on a white bathing towel by the side of a lake.
The mini projector was developed by research …
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Climatix is the new range of controllers from Siemens Building Technologies for OEMs operating in the fields of air conditioning and refrigeration. Thanks to its modular design, Climatix is very versatile and offers the right solution for any type of application ranging from primary plant with AHUs, chillers and rooftops to fan coil units on the consumer side.
With its Climatix range, Siemens supports the trend toward integration of the controllers in air conditioning and refrigeration equipment on the OEM’s production line. As a result, the effort required for installation and commissioning of plant will be minimized. For energy efficiency reasons with these types of plant, the requirements placed on control technology become more and more …
Konica Minolta IJ Technologies, Inc. announces the launch of Nassenger VII, a high-speed inkjet textile printer equipped with newly developed high-performance inkjet printheads. Sales of the printer will begin in the European market in mid-April, 2009.
The new Nassenger VII, is characterized by newly developed 512-nozzle high-speed drive inkjet printheads to deliver a maximum print speed of 210m2 per hour (about 3.6 times faster than its predecessor, Nassenger V) making it one of the fastest inkjet textile printers in the world. This printing speed allows Nassenger VII to be highly productive, comfortably meeting the needs of print works for short-run production of a variety of printing in small lots. Furthermore, equipped with a multi-gradation recording mode …
Microsoft, Sun Utilize AMD-V™ Technology to Drive Leading Virtualization Products and Performance
Continuing its momentum and leadership in virtualization technology, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD) today released the first video and images demonstrating live migration across three generations of AMD processors on VMware ESX 3.5, including the Six-Core AMD Opteron™ processor code-named “Istanbul.” Live Migration of virtual machines across physical servers is key to providing superior flexibility for managing today’s data centers. Additionally, AMD is highlighting its continued, cooperative development efforts with Microsoft as evidenced in Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V™, which is available today as a beta and adds support for AMD-V™ technology with Rapid Virtualization Indexing. The new 45nm Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor …
Single-chip solution for controlling displays, touch panels, music & voice
Seiko Epson Corporation (“Epson,” TSE: 6724) today announced that it has recently developed a 16-bit microcontroller that enhances the user interface of control panels used in items such as white goods and factory automation equipment. Samples of the new microcontroller, called the S1C17803, will be available to ship from the end of March 2009. Epson expects to launch volume production in August 2009, with a monthly output of 500,000 units. The company plans to make the new microcontroller available in two package types, a TQFP (0.4-mm pitch) and a QFP (0.5-mm pitch).
Microcontrollers are essential for the increasingly complicated user interfaces employed on control panels for home …
The autonomous data acquisition system meM-LOG-SE from BMC Messsysteme GmbH (bmcm) impresses by multifunctionality, compactness and mobile use. The remote data polling via modem creates independence from local conditions and allows fast analysis of breakdowns.
The service technician of a manufacturing company is on-call for the weekend. To minimize breakdowns and long downtimes, the machines of the factory are permanently monitored. Besides that, important parameters of the manufacturing process are continuously recorded for quality control. Will the service technician spend his weekend in the company?
When developing a vehicle, road tests are done to examine the riding qualities in practice. Prototypes are equipped with data acquisition systems and tested on the street. Will the test operator of …
