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U.S. Army eyes micro-battery with 30-plus year shelf life

Pop-up engine hood safety technology revealed by Nissan

Stroke victims can help themselves using Myomo robotic device

Buses get thorough 45-second wash thanks to Parker pneumatics
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Feature Articles

All aboard for greener boat engines
In 2001, the vanguard California Air Resources Board (CARB) adopted its own strict emission controls for SD/I engines by requiring the use of catalytic converters beginning in 2007. Enter marine engine maker Indmar, and its Extreme Tuned Exhaust with Catalyst (EXT/CAT) engine. The 5.7-liter, 350-hp, EXT/CAT is the first marine engine to meet the CARB Four-Star Super Ultra Low exhaust emissions rating, and the first such system to achieve the low temperatures required for efficient operation on the water.
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Ethernet Powerlink simplifies ultra-fast linear labeling machine systems
A switch to motion control components compatible with the real-time Ethernet Powerlink protocol is simplifying electrical system building for Harland Machine Systems (Lancashire, U.K.), a manufacturer of ultra-high-speed linear labeling machines. Ethernet Powerlink-compatible hardware has substantially reduced the hardware and wiring on a new variant of Harland's Mercury labeling system — a system designed to apply front and back pressure-sensitive labels, with a throughput of up to 275 products per minute.
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Affordable magnetostrictive sensor is highly adaptable, too
MTS Systems Corp., Sensors Division's C-Series Core Sensor provides engineering design firms with a cost-effective magnetostrictive linear position sensor ideal for integration into light industrial and commercial product designs. Designed for use in higher volume OEM products such as medical devices, small cutting/fastening/forming tools, and various consumer products, the C-Series is the smallest magnetostrictive sensor available, as well as the lowest cost sensor, making it useful for high-volume projects with constrained space and budgets.
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Beyond batteries: Storing power in a sheet of paper
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new energy storage device that can be printed like paper. The nanoengineered battery is lightweight, ultra thin, completely flexible, and geared toward meeting the trickiest design and energy requirements of tomorrow's gadgets, implantable medical equipment, and transportation vehicles. The device is also unique in that it can function as both a high-energy battery and a high-power supercapacitor.
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Wheels: What can hold a Formula One racecar together?
As an Official Supplier to Vodafone McLaren Mercedes, Henkel provides products and technologies in more than 300 applications used to construct the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes MP4-22, helping the team to implement design modifications quickly and reliably. From adhesives used on brake pads, driveshafts, and rear wing assembly components, to molding agents for the nose cone and glues for model wind-tunnel test vehicles, the Formula One racing program provides the optimal proving ground for Henkel technologies deployed in thousands of industrial applications every day.
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Geared up
Share your opinions and ideas on designs and pressing industry topics
This week: Thermodynamics and farming people
Two MIT graduate students may have found an answer to a growing energy question. It seems inventors James Graham and Thaddeus Jusczyk have remembered that pesky First Law of Thermodynamics, and created what they call a "Crowd Farm." The responsive sub-flooring system is made up of individual blocks that depress slightly under the force of human steps, and generates power through a piezoelectric dynamo that converts kinetic energy into an electric current.
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Guides

Literature, guides, catalogs, and other great free stuff: Always more than 50 new resources

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