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Custom seats validated by child |
24/12/2008 |
| The Custom-Fit project to produce seats for ride on toys that support their riders by being moulded to their body shape has reached a conclusion and been validated by its first user |
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Brominated flame retardents to continue |
23/12/2008 |
| According to Dr Aiden Turnbull, head of WEEE, RoHS and EcoDesign at consultants ENVIRON, “Industry will welcome the Commission’s decision to drop its plans to ban TBBP-A [Tetrabromobisphenol A] a flame retardant used in over 90 per cent of all circuit boards”. |
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Polymer coatings heal when scratched |
19/12/2008 |
| A method of making polymer coatings that repair themselves has been devised by, and is being commercialised by, a team led by two professors at the University of Illinois in the US. |
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Nitrogen cuts costs for business cars |
18/12/2008 |
| Atlas Copco Compressors is helping its employees and business visitors to its Hemel Hempstead HQ cut motoring costs by providing them with the option to fill their tyres with nitrogen, as used in F1 cars and aircraft |
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Humanoid robot developed to help the elderly |
17/12/2008 |
| A humanoid robot called Twendy-One has been developed by the Sugano laboratory at the Waseda University in Japan and private industry, with the aim of supporting human activities, including care of the elderly. |
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Catia helps top speed |
16/12/2008 |
| A superfast sailing boat, the hydrofoil equipped trimaran l’Hydroptère, already holder of the world sailing boat speed record over one nautical mile, is being reconfigured with the help of Catia to beat the absolute sailing boat speed record over 500m |
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Showing lots of fibre |
10/12/2008 |
| A breakthrough in the commercial production of bacterial cellulose nanofibres for engineering materials from fruit waste |
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Hedge fund for design |
09/12/2008 |
| Introducing new innovation thinking into the design process – and design thinking into the innovation process |
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Electronics made to twist |
03/12/2008 |
| Two US researchers have developed electronic components and circuitry that can be twisted, especially suitable for systems that could be worn by humans |
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Elastomer actuators win a prize |
02/12/2008 |
| Danish scientist Peter Sommer-Larsen has just been honoured for his researches into artificial muscles made of elastomers. |
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Nuclear options identified for UK |
01/12/2008 |
| Following the publication of the 2008 Energy White Paper, in which the government announced it’s intention to allow private companies to propose the building of new nuclear power plants, the parliamentary Office of Science and Technology has identified the two most likely technical solutions for the next generation of nuclear reactors. |
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