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February 09 2010

06:12

High-frequency trading moves compute cycles out of the cloud

I’ve written in the past about how Google locates its server farms near cheap sources of power. In addition, Google can rely on cloud c...

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Finding patterns in diabetes treatment may be key for telemedicine

Dr. David Klonoff of Mills-Peninsula Health Center and UC San Francisco gave a talk at yesterday’s Printed Electronics USA09 conference in Sa...

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This week’s the deadline for EDN’s LED Workshop abstract submission

If you’ve been dragging your feet about submitting a paper proposal for EDN’s Designing with LEDs Workshop to be held I at the Santa Cl...

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ICs tackle accuracy in multi-phase metering applications

The Smart Grid offers increased robustness and reliability as well as the integration of renewable energy into the power grid. But it comes with si...

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Tighter binning yields more consistent HB LEDs for indoor apps

HB (high-brightness) LED vendors make white HB LEDs by taking a blue LED and dosing it with a blob of phosphor that emits white light when illumina...

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OLED tile is a first for lighting

OSRAM has announced its ORBEOS CDW-031 OLED lighting tile, which as far as I know is the first commercially available OLED lighting product. While ...

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Primer includes ”ABCs of LEDs”

National’s brand-new downloadable 40-pp PDF, LED Drivers for High-Brightness Lighting, starts off with a technology overview that has a nice ...

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Cool-running LEDs in stoplights can’t melt snow

Jon Titus (former EDN chief editor who now blogs from Utah about development kits at DevMonkey) emailed me to point out a characteristic of energy-...

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Advances in microneedle fabrication hold promise for improved drug delivery

A couple of weeks ago at the Printed Electronic Conference there was a talk that covered the importance of microneedles in insulin delivery in next...

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3D modeling, 2D drafting for $197

Alibre is having a sale on its 3D design package: $197. This is the basic 3D design, 2D drafting software package. They have higher-priced packages...

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3D medical printer to print body parts

I was impressed by all the new technology on display at the Printed Electronics USA conference early this month – printable batteries, OLED d...

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Phoenix Lander has chance to rise again from Mars winter

NASA officially declared the Mars Phoenix Lander mission at an end in November of 2008 when the lander ceased communicating after operating for fiv...

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Tiny PV cells in artificial retina act as image-to-current converters

Artificial retinas hold promise for improved vision for patients whose eyes’ photoreceptors have degraded due to conditions such as retinitis...

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Registration opens for March 2010 LED Workshop in Santa Clara

Yessss. Registration is open now for the next “Designing with LEDs” workshop in Santa Clara (March 17th at the Santa Clara Convention C...

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Google looking to broker energy as well as information

Google has applied to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to become an electricity marketer, which gives the search company the authority to b...

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Apple planning solar-powered iPod?

Several sources are reporting Apple’s application for a patent covering the use of transparent solar cells and their power management for por...

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DIY manufacturing, open source hardware, and the New Long Tail

Remember The Long Tail? The Long Tail is Chris Anderson’s theory he proposed in a 2004 Wired magazine article that in the Internet world, whe...

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New report: Nichia dominates $5.2B HB LED market; Cree comes on strong

IMS Research has released a study on the HB LED die market. One conclusion from the report: The HB LED market will be strongly affected by demand f...

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HB LEDs: Backlighting vs. solid-state lighting

Yesterday’s post Nichia dominates $5.2B HB LED market; Cree comes on strong was based on a newly-released report from IMS Research on its pro...

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Phihong ac-dc power adapters: Smaller is better

Phihong recently introduced two ac-dc power adapters that the company says are the smallest in their class. For comparison’s sake, here&rsquo...

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