Terry Costlow, Contributing Editor -- Design News, February 1, 2009
Saving energy is becoming fashionable, as well as frugal. LS Research is providing help for people who want to do more than swap out lightbulbs. Its Rate$aver energy usage rate monitor is a wireless, in-home display that shows consumption data from the home's utility meter. The unit itself is a power miser, operating as long as two years on two AA batteries. It also uses novel display technology that makes the data visible even after the power is turned off. It uses ZigBee, employing a 100 mW power amplifier that covers most homes without a repeater.
Solvay Advanced Polymers Technology. No matter what you're working on, you need a material that performs. After all, the material you specify this year will determine the success of your product next year and beyond. That's where Solvay...
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For the past 30 years, National Instruments has been a technology pioneer and leader in virtual instrumentation - a revolutionary concept that has changed the way engineers and scientists in industry, government, and academia approach measurement...
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Established in 1964, Phillips Plastics is a privately held custom injection molder of plastic, metal, and ceramics. Phillips Plastics is a technology driven Company, providing contract manufacturing services to original equipment manufacturers in...
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Gates is the world's largest manufacturer of Power Transmission (PT) belts for problem solving applications. The company's industrial belts provide power to all kinds of machines, from rock crushers, copy machines and motorcycles to...
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