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Feature Articles

Prototyping: Giving the opera a new voice (in Klingon)
The opera gives its fans great music, timeless stories, and unmatched spectacle. Figaro Systems of Santa Fe, NM, gives them something that many have never had: access to the language. Figaro's Simultext system offers three-line real-time translations at each and every seat in the house. Injection-molded system prototypes from Protomold gained key advantages for the company bringing the product to market quickly, because the prototypes were exact representations of production parts made from the same resin.
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Paintless paintballs hit their mark
In the intensely competitive sport of paintball, where players take practice very seriously, the idea of paintless paintballs is no contradiction. Being paintless, they are reusable, enabling players to practice as much as they wish without the higher cost — and obvious mess — that comes with using regular paintballs. To meet the challenge to design a reusable ball that performs just like the real thing, minus the paint mark, paintball gear marketer Rufus Dawg, Inc. used Teknor Apex Company's Monprene thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) compounds.
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5-Star Product: Battery-free wireless sensor aims to do it all
The wireless wizards over at EnOcean have unleashed what they are calling the world's first wireless, battery-free — and affordable — sensor transmitter to integrate all sensor functions into a single module. The device is aimed at North American OEMs developing products for commercial building monitoring and control, industrial processes, lighting control, automated metering infrastructures, and home automation. The EnOcean STM (Sensor Transmitter Module) 110 harvests and stores solar energy, converts DC to DC efficiently, measures incoming data with ultra-low-power electronics, and transmits via radio signals.
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Nanopantography may mean way better TVs
Although relatively new to the market, liquid crystal display (LCD) televisions may soon be obsolete, thanks to a new technique created by University of Houston professors. Vincent Donnelly, Demetre Economou, and Paul Ruchhoeft, all of the Cullen College of Engineering, have developed a technique that allows nanotech devices to be mass-produced, which could move the television industry away from the LCD display to the superior field emission display (FED).
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Wheels: How to maximize hardware-in-the-loop simulation using Maple
Maple math software is an ideal tool for automotive engineers to quickly build system models for applications such as hardware-in-the-loop testing, where high accuracy and real-time performance are required. Maple and its new add-on modules offer automotive engineers many time-saving advance capabilities: Math power can be achieved without entering formulas to easily find the optimum parameters of a system, to create a system-symbolic math model from real data, or to optimize the use of Simulink.
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Guides

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