September 25, 2008

A fire this January at a Las Vegas hotel, the Monte Carlo, should have spurred other hotels in the city to review their fire-safety provisions.

2008 Ford Escape combines a gas engine with an electric motor, charges with engine power and regenerative braking.

40-ft-long city hybrid, bus built from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, DoE, and two Michigan companies, has twice the mileage of conventional hybrid buses.

M-Gator A1 combat-proven utility vehicle used by the military will have a civilian cousin, according to truck maker John Deere Co.

Engineers developing hydrogenpowered cars could get a welcome from discoveries recently made at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. A cryogenic pressure vessel developed there can hold liquid hydrogen at -420°F.

Device for inspecting weldingrod tips uses machine vision to determine whether redressed tips are good enough to resume welding.  Weld Tip System from the Orbitform Group and  Cure (for concurrent universal recognition engine), the processor chip comes from Neural ID

New chips open doors for smart cards.  Widest electrostatic plotter writes with 14,336 nibs.  Gasoline-filled blimp sails deep under the sea

Kevin Ryan, rehabilitation engineer, talks about why high-school kids are smarter than college students and helping people with disabilities.

AAF International, a provider of clean-air solutions, is now a U.S. Green Building Council member.

VDI “Baden-baden special” conference
Oct. 15-16 — The third VDI “Baden-Baden Special” conference is devoted to the subject of “Saving energy with automotive electronics