Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
Japanese electronics company Seiko has launched a wristwatch powered by body beat. The watch, which went on sale in Japan from December 15, 1998, exploits the temperature difference between the surroundings and the wearer's arm. According to the designers of the watch, it starts to generate electri- city as soon …
this is an age when a good figure almost always helps: the thinner it is, the better it is supposed to be. We are talking, of course, about television ( tv ) screens and miscellaneous visual display systems. These have been getting thinner and thinner over the past decade. Recently, …
If you want a widescreen television but do not have enough room or money to squeeze a large set into your living room, Sony has an answer. Its new Glasstron goggles use a virtual reality headset display
A reliable method for detecting soldering errors on circuit boards has been developed by the heavy industries division of Mitsubishi in Japan. Three perpendicular laser beams just five micrometers wide are fired at the solder tracks, sending three-dimensional data to a microprocessor. The shape of each track - especially the …
a smart card that can pretend to be a floppy disc is due to be launched in the uk soon. It will allow the user to programme numbers into his or her cellphone simply by slotting the card into the floppy disc drive of a computer. The card fits into …
companies such as ibm have now switched over to a new technique of scattering a thin film of magnetic molecules on the surface of the disk, as this helps increase drive capacity. Earlier, the engineers were using the old technology of embedding iron particles into the plastic of the disk. …
SIEMENS, a world leader in electronic products, has a firin belief that a safe and healthy working environment is as essential as quality control, production and marketing. It has, therefore, taken steps to prevent accidents, to take care of the health of its employees and to protect the environment. Safety …
A us computer firm, Digital Equipment Corporation, was ordered to pay $5.8 million as compensation to three office workers who blamed their repetitive strain injury on keyboards manufactured by the company. It is the first computer firm in the country to be held responsible for any musculo-skeletal disorder. Hundreds of …
Britain's Northern Telecom has become the world's first major electronics company to phase out ozone-depleting CFCs from its operations. The achievement was made possible by eliminating the need for solvent cleaning by using an inert atmosphere of nitrogen during soldering. This allows the use of less active fluxes which do …
lasers, like integrated circuits, are now an important part of many devices and techniques. Their unique properties like coherence and their non-dispersive nature help them play a crucial role in research in areas like quantum mechanics and communications. N Tessler and his colleagues at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, uk …
THE race of the cooling business may be (the marketing mandarins of refrigerator companies can sl 'it up each other) hotting up, but how about a laser- operated fridge? Neighbours' envy, owners' pride and all that... but optical refrigeration technology is no longer sci-fi. It has just been patented in …
The electronics industry is being threatened by yet another period of scarcity, with reports that the demand for polycrystalline silicon is outstripping supply (The Electronics and Wireless World, June, 1995). Fears about the supply of polycrystalline silicon - the raw material for monocrystalline ingot production - are growing as the …
THE deaf and dumb may finally have a voice in this largely insensitive world. Hitachi, the Japanese electronics group, is harnessing three rapidly developing technologies - computer based-imaging, voice recognition and automatic translation - to help a person converse with someone deaf hundreds of miles away in a foreign language, …
WHEN the British government was debating as to whether or not it should introduce identity cards, it had several options before it. The cards could be made available on a voluntary basis or driving licences with photos could double as identity cards. The third option was to make it compulsory …
Microsoft is in trouble for its money-spinner software, Windows 95. Investigations are on against the world's largest software company, about claims that its latest package causes deliberate disadvantages for rival programmes, installed in the same computer, that let users access the Internet. The US Justice Department is collecting details from …
THE microelectronic revolution that we've witnessed during the past decade has simultaneously aimed at miniaturising the components of a circuit as well as enhancing its performance. For instance, the Intel Pentium microprocessor is about twice as powerful as the now vintage Intel 80386 processor, while their sizes remain roughly the …
A WHOLE new world of recording on a blank compact disc (CD) is now emerging. Researchers in Japan and The Netherlands are working on the concept of using a CD recorder at home to copy favourite music tracks on blank CDs or record film sequences on blank video CDs. Hi-fidelity …
THE US is likely to build the world's fastest supercomputer capable of carrying out 1.8 trillion calculations a second - to ensure that it never again needs to carry out underground nuclear tests. The us $46 million computer will be built for the us Department of Energy by Intel, the …
THE world's latest advance in chip technology is Ferro- electric Ceramics. If put in an integrated circuit, these new chip, capacitors ensure that weak batteries or a loose Ac plug do not wipe out data stores on computers. Ferro- electric Ceramics, besides shrinking the capacitor volume, can "remember" data for …
