January 11, 2007

Losses from the 2004 hurricane season are estimated at $18.8 billion (22.9 billion with liability claims), according to the Insurance Information Institute.

Until recently, Evernham Motor-sports LLC in Statesville, N.C., built its team race cars and R&D vehicles mostly by hand.

Researchers at the University of Southampton turned an electric motor upside down to create a more efficient generator.

The Dept. of Energy has been setting records at its Savannah River Site when it comes to processing radioactive wastes.

An online configurator let life-science instrument maker Luminex Corp., Austin, hold the line on prototyping costs.

Electrostatic adhesion force makes toner particles in photo-copiers, laser printers, and fax machines, temporarily stick to paper before they are permanently fused by heat.

Researchers at Cornell University have built a four-legged robot that changes its programming to adapt to injury.

The Gloucester County Board of Freeholders honored Omega Engineering for its contribution to the economic development of the tri-county region of Southern New Jersey.

Wago Corp. is hosting a free industrial ethernet and IEC 61131-3 seminar March 26-28, May 14-16, September 24-26, and November 5-7, 2007 at their North American headquarters in Germantown, WI.

Since 1989, First (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition (FRC) has created a venue for high school students to experience the world of engineering.

The latest advances in medical-grade materials, components, electronics, computer-aided design and manufacturing, production machinery, packaging, sterilization, quality systems, device communications, networking, and enterprise IT will be on display at Medical Design & Manufacturing West in the Anaheim (Calif.) Convention Center from Feb. 12 to 15.

A liquid-lens system with no moving parts and integrated driver lets users accurately focus miniature autofocus cameras at close range.

This three-day seminar, "The Successful Measurement of Dynamic Force, Pressure and Acceleration," will be geld May 15-17 outside Buffalo, NY.

The Boeing Company has created the 787 Dreamliner, a mid-sized, twin-engine airliner and is scheduled to enter service in May of next year.

The SeaBreacher, a fully submersible watercraft, can dip just below the surface and then jump clear out of the water, perform multiple roll overs and mid-air roll overs, and can plane at 30 mph with the canopy fully open.

Desktop computers are more powerful than mainframe computers of the 1970s but, most people only use them for email and word processing.

An estimated 26,000 people are killed or injured every year by land mines and while the casualties include soldiers, most are civilians, half of them children under 16 years old, who step on uncleared minefields after a war.

Music fans, the days of vinyl are back, sort of.

The ability to read data stored in the magnetic "spin" of phosphorus atoms brings quantum computers one step closer to reality, says University of Utah physicist Christoph Boehme.