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At the Eco Products 2010 exhibition in Tokyo this past weekend, Sony showed intentions to bring new meaning to the phrase "flower power" with this beautifully designed Hana Mado, or

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Researchers at New Energy Technologies developing a proprietary solar window technology are claiming scientific and technical breakthroughs, and in a few weeks they plan to unveil a working prototype of the world's first-ever glass window capable of generating electricity.

Conventional solar panels are opaque due to the use of metal coatings and various processes that prevent light from passing through the glass material. New Energy's transparent solar panel technology is based on tiny organic solar cells developed by Dr Xiaomei Jiang at the University of South Florida, which are one-quarter the size of a grain of rice and are able to generate electricity from both natural and artificial light. They also outperform conventional solar cell technology by up to ten times. The University of South Florida Research Foundation licensed Dr Jiang's research results and important commercial processes and applications to New Energy Solar Corporation.

In recent months, researchers at New Energy working on the development of transparent solar power coatings have achieved several important milestones, including demonstrating the use of the of the tiny solar cells to generate electricity and developing a novel, patent-pending process for spraying solar window coatings onto transparent glass using commercially available technologies. The spraying process can be used at room temperatures, eliminating the need for expensive high-temperature or high-vacuum production methods commonly used in conventional solar cell fabrication.

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Teseq PM 6006 power meter modules are designed to meet the demands of EMC testing, which include a large dynamic range, fast measurement, rugged design, and a frequency range matching the intended application.

Two models are available. The PMU 6006 connects to a PC USB port and is supplied with control software that runs under Windows. Along with several graphic display modes, the software supports averaging, offset, and selectable measuring units (dBm, dBμV and V). It can also handle simultaneous data readout from several power meters. The PMU 6006 is powered from the USB port.

The PMR 6006 is  designed for direct connection to the Teseq ITS 6006 immunity test system. Up to three power meter modules can be connected, and the measured power can be read by the ITS 6006 software tool or the optional Test House software.

Both devices have a frequency range of 1 MHz to 6 GHz, a linear measurement range of -45 to

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The new P95020 power management IC from Integrated Device Technology is a system-on-chip device intended to be used in portable consumer products such as smartphones, portable navigation devices, mobile Internet devices and e-books.

According to IDT, the P95020 PMIC is the first of its kind to include a full set of system power regulation and management functions along with human interface subsystems, including audio and touch interfaces support. The embedded MCU is complemented by integrated peripheral subsystems including several switch-mode DC/DC converters and low-dropout voltage regulators, battery charge management, LED drivers, low-power stereo audio and voice codecs with mixer capability, a class D amplifier and headphone driver, a PLL for on-chip and external clock generation, and a touch screen controller. The MCU uses on-board system management resources, such as instrumentation SAR 12-bit ADC and a real-time clock, to provide optimum flexibility while reducing overall system power dissipation.

The embedded microcontroller of the IDT P95020 adds full programmability and flexibility to designs based on leading multimedia application processors. All functional blocks can be accessed over an I2C bus. The programmable voltage regulators meet the dynamic voltage adjustment requirements of application processors.

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Green laser pointers have become a popular consumer item, delivering light that’s brighter to the eye than red lasers, but stories have circulated on the Web about the potential hazards of inexpensive models. Now, a team led by physicist Charles Clark at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) puts some numbers to the problem. In one case, the group found that a green laser pointer emitted almost twice its rated power level of light

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