Archive for August, 2008

Experimental Apartment in Beijing Achieves 99 percent Purity of Indoor Air

Two indoor air quality (IAQ) experts who are in China to work with athletes during the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games announced today that they have achieved up to 99% purity of the indoor air in their Beijing apartment. They installed specialized ultra-high efficiency air cleaning equipment to demonstrate that despite Beijing’s reputation as having the [...]

Universal Detection Technology Receives and Completes Contract to Provide Anthrax/Bioterrorism Detection Equipment for the 2008 Beijing Olympics

Detection Equipment Capable of Detecting Anthrax as Well as Ricin Toxin, Botulinum Toxin, Plague, and SEBs in as Little as 3 Minutes Universal Detection Technology (www.udetection.com) (OTCBB: UNDT), a developer of early-warning monitoring technologies to protect people from bioterrorism and other infectious health threats and provider of counter-terrorism consulting and training services, reported today that [...]

Sony to Provide XDCAM Camcorders and Decks for NBC’s Coverage of the 2008 Beijing Summer Games

More than 80 Sony HD Cameras to be Used Sony will provide the latest version of XDCAM(R) HD technology to NBC during the network’s coverage of the 2008 Beijing Summer Games, from Aug. 8 to 24. NBC will use 30 PDW-700 cameras and 170 PDW-HD1500 decks. Additionally, 42 Sony HDC-1400 studio cameras, eight MVS-8000 switchers [...]

Sun Spinner

We’ve seen wind spinners before, but none that mesmerise in quite the same fashion as our Sun version. The sheer number of man hours lost to staring at it beggars belief. Seriously. Unlike cheap, shoddily made alternatives, the lightest of breezes will cause it to turn and reflect the sunlight, creating an explosion of color [...]

Microsoft Surface Sphere

A new product from Microsoft Research. The Sphere comes from the same Microsoft Researchers that developed the Surface, aka “PlayTable”.