News tagged with flotation equipment


Sightseeing helicopter crashes in Hawaii decrease following FAA regulations

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jun 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

An emergency rule intended to reduce the number of deaths and injuries associated with Hawaiian air tours was followed by a 47 percent reduction in sightseeing crashes, according to a new study by researchers from the Johns ...





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Light Source Lasts 12 Years - No Electricity Needed

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Dec 13, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (93) | comments 8

A company called MPK is designing a light source that will glow continuously for more than 12 years without any additional energy.


Elpida Completes Development of 1-Gigabit GDDR5

Elpida Completes Development of 1-Gigabit GDDR5

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Elpida Memory, Japan's leading global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory, today announced that it had developed a 1-gigabit GDDR5 (product name: EDW1032BABG) that operates at a world-class high speed ...


Cisco expands again, buying Starent for $2.9B (AP)

Cisco expands again, buying Starent for $2.9B

Technology / Business

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Betting on the growing popularity of data-hungry phones like the iPhone, Cisco Systems Inc. said Tuesday it had agreed to pay $2.9 billion for Starent Networks Corp., a maker of equipment for wireless ...


Nanotech protection: Current safety equipment may not be adequate for nanoprotection

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Writing in a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Nanotechnology, Canadian engineers suggest that research is needed into the risks associated with the growing field of nanotechnology manufacture so that approp ...


Engineering professor creates mobile lab for testing bridges

Engineering professor creates mobile lab for testing bridges

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Civil engineering students at the University of Rhode Island will soon take to the roadways to apply what they have learned in the classroom in real-world analyses of bridges, buildings and ...


New radar helps monitor site of century-old tragedy

New radar helps monitor site of century-old tragedy

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Alberta researcher has turned the site of a southern Alberta rockslide tragedy into the proving ground for new equipment meant to avert such a disaster in the future.


Milling and drilling in cyberspace

Milling and drilling in cyberspace

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Machinists, NC programmers or mechatronics engineers -- trainees in engineering jobs often have to master complex equipment. In the future, trainees will practice and learn milling, turning, drilling and programming ...


Robotic Boat Geared to Simplify Life for Scientists

Robotic Boat Geared to Simplify Life for Scientists

Electronics / Robotics

created Nov 02, 2006 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Though it looks like a miniature yellow catamaran, a craft designed by professors and students at Rowan University is not your father’s toy boat.


Venezuela turns to cloud-seeding to battle drought (AP)

Venezuela turns to cloud-seeding to battle drought

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(AP) -- Hugo Chavez says he is starting to "bombard" clouds now that Cuba has provided Venezuela with cloud-seeding help in an effort to produce rain and alleviate the effects of a severe drought.


Premium car research & cow dung point to new high tech disease diagnosis

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research at the University of Warwick have taken high tech gas sensors normally used to test components for premium cars and applied the same techniques to human blood,  human urine, and even cow dung samples ...



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