Technology Fan March 2005

Air-Powered Saw  A new quick-clamp assembly that can be used for straight-cutting panels, steel plate and any flat material up to 4” deep, without tack welding...
Fastest supercomputer gets faster  Blue Gene/L, the fastest supercomputer in the world, has broken its own speed record, reaching 135.5 teraflops - a trillion calculations a second. That...
Joint Replacement  Hand surgeon Dr. Luis R. Scheker implanted the first approved prosthesis for total replacement of the distal radio-ulnar joint at Jewish Hospital on Saturday,...
Dashboard Navigation  Mopar has teamed up with Garmin to offer an affordable GPS navigation system for Chrysler vehicles. As a dealer-installed option, the Mopar Navigation system...
New Display Options  Fujitsu Computer Systems today announced two new display options for the LifeBook T4000 Tablet PC, making it the ideal convertible for all types of...
iPod Speakers  New battery-powered portable speakers from Logitech are aimed at iPod users and the rapidly growing mobile music market. The Logitech mm22 portable speakers work...
Vacuum Lifter  Controlled by action of hoist being raised and lowered, self-contained, self-powered Model 70S is suited for use anywhere around plant or job site. It...
Touch Computer  Elo TouchSystems, Inc., the global leader in touch technology and a business unit of Tyco Electronics, has today expanded its family of touchcomputers and...
Mouse Adapter  IBM researchers invent a new assitivecomputer mouse adapter to help hand tremor sufferers use personal computers. It eliminates excessive cursor movement, thereby allowing more...
Bioremediating Parts Cleaner  Made of high-density polypropylene, Models BIO436 and BIO536 feature solid-state electronic controls and 300 gph pump that delivers heated, aqueous, non-hazardous, pH-neutral cleaning solution...
Firefly Mobile Telephone  The Firefly phone is the first and only mobile phone explicitly designed for tweens that satisfies parents' concerns about unrestricted mobile phone use and...
Make-Up Air Unit  Greenheck's new cost efficient Model IG-HV indirect gas-fired make-up air units are ideal for commercial and institutional applications such as medical clinics, hospitals, schools,...
Interactive virtual showroom  In cylindrical 360° panoramas, virtual scenes can be viewed all the way around their own axis. A new system now allows these scenes to...
Frequency Counter  B&K Precision Corporation, one of the industry's leading suppliers of test and measurement products, today announced the immediate availability of the Model 1856D, a...
USB Speakerphone  A USB speakerphone from Phoenix Audio Technologies empowers desktop and laptop voip users with high quality, headset-free, full duplex communication. Designed as the primary...
Cell Phone  In the future, it will not only be possible to receive digital TV while on the road; viewers will also be able to help...
Robotic Palletizer  Columbia/Okura's A1600 robotic palletizer is capable of palletizing 60 lb. bags of cement products at a rate of 24 bags per minute. The robotic...
40-Inch and 46-Inch LCD Monitors  The SyncMaster 460P is Samsung’s largest LCD monitor targeted to the commercial and Pro A/V marketplace. It is Ideal for digital signage applications in...
Wearable Display Glasses  The Kopin CyberDisplay 320C has been selected as the imaging core of the Eyetop DVD, one of the world's first private, wearable DVD players....
Pressure Washer  Mi-T-M® Corporation introduces a cold water belt drive series of aluminum pressure washers called the CBA Series. The CBA Series cold water aluminum pressure...
Water Filter  The maker of PuR water filters, The Procter and Gamble Company, continues its commitment to consumer focused innovations in water filtration by announcing the...
Semiconductor Optical Amplifier  Fujitsu Limited and Fujitsu Laboratories Limited have announced the development of the world's first semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA)(1) enabling waveform re-shaping of high-speed optical...
Digital Cameras  Concord Camera Corp. (“Concord”) (Nasdaq:LENSE), a leader in award-winning, high-quality, affordably-priced image capture products, announced the unveiling of the new EasyShot line at the...
Super Luxury Auto  A new high-performance Maybach 57 S debuted at the Geneva Motor Show. The new 57 S model builds on the successful Maybach platform, making...
Live pictures in 3D  Pictures from Mars, hazardous industrial environments, operating rooms, or of components or a colleague on the other side of the world deliver a more...
Geometry Scan Unit  Suited for Series PSV-400 scanning vibrometer systems, Geometry Scan Unit combines laser range finder with scan mirrors that position vibrometer beam. After defining measurement...
Quantum Computers  A full-scale quantum computer could produce reliable results even if its components performed no better than today's best first-generation prototypes, according to a paper...
Digital Cinema Server  Following an extensive evaluation and competitive bid process, QuVIS servers will be installed by Arts Alliance Digital Cinema for the UK Film Council's digital...
Virtual TV Station  New form of television composed of mobile phone video clips syndicated by a self-publishing audience. Video phone viewership is growing and a virtual TV...
Solar Grid Tie Inverter  Xantrex Technology Inc., Burnaby BC, has launched its new solar grid tie inverter into the Spanish market at the recent International Energy and Environment...
Acomplia  The results of a two-year Phase III study in 3040 patients with rimonabant (Acomplia), the first in a new class of therapeutic agents called...
Coupling Assembly System  Victaulic Company, the original innovator of grooved mechanical pipe joining, announced the launch of the patent-pending Advanced Groove System (AGS) — the company’s strongest...
Microsoft, Fiat, Xilinx collaborate on telematics system  Flexible, low-cost system will be integrated into every new car from Italian auto maker, will allow diagnostic data to be transferred to and analyzed...
3D Dentistry  MedVisor/dental from Reality Engineering is a patient education and communication tool that translates highly technical details and procedures into easy-to-understand three-dimensional dental animations.
3G Baseband  TTPCom and ARM will collaborate to design and develop the next generation of 3G Intellectual Property (IP) platforms, incorporating ARM processors and TTPCom Cellular...
Shredding Truck  MS10 mobile shredding trucks feature hydraulically-driven high-torque shredders, heavy duty chassis with 250 hp diesel engines, onboard compaction systems, PLC based controls, and automatic...
Ion Trap  The HCT Ultra High-Capacity Trap mass spectrometer system from Bruker Daltonics features increased acquisition speed, sensitivity, and software for intelligent data-dependent scans. The system...
15 Inch LCD Workstations  Arista Corporation, a leading industrial computer solutions provider and system integrator added the new ARP-1715BW workstation to their successful line of ARP-1715 15-inch all-in-one...
Nano Lithography  High-resolution imprint system provides fully automated wafer handling and integrated magnification control. The Imprio 250 imprint lithography system from Molecular Imprints is a nano-imprint...
Bosch Security Systems Improvement  Bosch Security Systems, a full-line manufacturer of high-quality security systems and components, has added two new cameras to its high-performance...