• Innovative fan design wins Live Edge Electronic Design award

    Ceiling fan combines an electronically commutated motor and controller, and an aerodynamically efficient blade design that reduces fan input power by up to 66 percent of that of a traditional ceiling fan

  • IPv6 is about to arrive -- and with it many opportunities

    IPv6 will offer government agencies better security, flexible networking, and a very large number of IP addresses; management will be critical; “It’s a huge shift in paradigm,” says Microsoft’s Sean Siler

  • Knee brace acts as charger for cell phones, artificial limbs

    Canadian researcher develops new device which harnesses the energy of a person’s leg as it swings forward during a step; running the generator constantly through the stride generated 7 watts of power

  • Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Prototype Development, MOU

    The U.S., France, and Japan agree to collaborate on sodium-cooled fast reactor prototype development; a sodium-cooled fast reactor uses liquid sodium to transfer heat, burning the plutonium and other transuranic elements in the process producing clean, safe nuclear power, less waste, and increasing non-proliferation goals

  • Defending cities against dirty bombs is difficult

    DHS efforts to develop technologies for detecting dirty bombs run into criticism of the feasibility of the technology and questions about the cost-benefit analysis used to justify the deployment of the systems

  • DOE grants $114 million to small-scale biorefinery projects

    DOE grants $114 million for four small-scale biorefinery projects; these biorefineries will use a wide variety of feedstocks and test novel conversion technologies to provide data necessary to bring online full-size, commercial-scale biorefineries

  • AUV to undertake underwater pipe inspection

    Aussie researchers to develop an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to assess the integrity of pipelines which lie up to 2.5 km below sea level, and evaluate the changing conditions of the sea-floor

  • EU and industry launch Clean Sky technology initiative

    The initiative, a joint EU-industry scheme in which $2.3 billion will be invested between 2008 and 2014, aims to speed up technological breakthrough developments and shorten the time to market for new green aviation solutions

  • University of New Hampshire launches alert network

    More and more schools and colleges install alert notification systems which allow for quick and reliable dissemination of alerts through different media; University of New Hampshire install a system from Cooper Notification; the system has three interesting features: Alumni and parents of students can join the network; the system allows for exchanging information with local law enforcement authorities; the system is connected to a nationwide information exchange network

  • EVT in distribution agreement with Russian security distributor

    Russian security distributor orders 1,000 Licenses for Vertex Networked Video Management Software from EVT; Russia is a lucrative market for surveillance equipment and gear aimed at critical infrastructure facilities

  • Beijing to examine water safety daily ahead of Olympics

    As is the case with many other things in China, water is polluted, too; ahead of the Summer Olympic Games, China establishes water monitoring teams to perform round-the-clock checks and maintenance of the water pipelines and ground water systems

  • U.S. to increase Earth observation capabilities

    In 2006 the administration cut the budget for several planned sensors which would have sustained key, long-standing climate measurements; the new Bush budget proposal shows that funding for these sensors has been restored — even enhanced

  • Sri Lanka blocks SMS as an Independence Day protection measure

    Sri Lankan mobile phone operators ordered to block SMS on mobile phones during the country’s Independence Day celebrations, marking the country’s sixty years of independence; telecom regulator had ordered the suspension of SMS messages, fearing Tamil Tiger rebels could use them to scare people into staying away from celebrations

  • Wind farms "a threat to [U.K.] national security"

    The U.K. has an ambitious plan calling for producing a third of Britain’s energy needs from offshore wind farms; there is a problem, though: The Ministry of Defense says that both onshore and offshore wind turbines create gaps in radar coverage of the coast line, allowing a sneak aerial attack on the country

  • Hamburg’s Deutsche Bahn selects Verint solution

    Verint’s networked video solution aims to enhance security across Germany’s second city’s urban railway network