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Contemporary Heaven, a leading retailer and manufacturer of quality contemporary home accessories, recently announced a sale on the Piaggi Coloured Eclipse Mirror. This is a stunning mirror that features a mosaic of drawn and rolled coloured glass and mirror, which has then been hand crafted around an offset mirror to create a colourful contrast. (PRWEB) January 12, 2013 Contemporary Heaven, a leading retailer and manufacturer of quality contemporary home accessories, recently announced a...

Tho holiday season means many things to many people, but certainly is a great time to give oneself the gift of self discovery. Jacksonville, Florida (PRWEB) December 05, 2012 The holiday season starting with Thanksgiving and ending with New Years Day is special in many ways; not the least being a good time to “Find Yourself” according to the creator of “Your Two Sense Worth” Daniel Padgug. Thanksgiving is often used as a time to reflect upon what there is to be thankful for and...

GLEN ALLEN, Va., Dec. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets has published a new report titled "Smart Glass in the Automotive Sector -2013." This report projects that revenues from smart glass and related coatings sold to the automotive sector will reach $3.5 billion by 2018. Additional details about the report are available at http://nanomarkets.net/market_reports/report/smart_glass_in_the_automotive_sector_2013 This report provides an in-depth analysis of the...

Tufts University Dissolvable micro-mirrors enhance imaging, administer heat, deliver and monitor drugs Tufts University School of Engineering researchers have demonstrated silk-based implantable optics that offer significant improvement in tissue imaging while simultaneously enabling photo thermal therapy, administering drugs and monitoring drug delivery. The devices also lend themselves to a variety of other biomedical functions. Biodegradable and biocompatible, these tiny...

Rice University A device that looks like a tiny washboard may clean the clocks of current commercial products used to manipulate infrared light. New research by the Rice University lab of Qianfan Xu has produced a micron-scale spatial light modulator (SLM) like those used in sensing and imaging devices, but with the potential to run orders of magnitude faster. Unlike other devices in two-dimensional semiconducting chips, the Rice chips work in three-dimensional "free space." Xu and...

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online The idea of an invisibility cloak is an attractive one to the human psyche. The ability to be present when we’re thought to be absent is a juicy prospect. Not only could we finally find out what people say about us behind our backs, but we’d also be able to watch people without being detected, as well as play some of the world’s greatest pranks. Now, in the latest attempt to turn science fiction into science fact, one Duke...

CLEVELAND, Nov. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Looking for a gift with a big impact? A gift that is more than just a fashion statement? A gift that lets your daughter know, everytime she looks in the mirror that she is loved? We have it. Reflectwhoiam.com is a web site, that creates and sells original mirror image shirts for girls. The image on the shirt is designed so that the message is revealed to the girl wearing the shirt when it is reflected in a mirror. It is constant reminder...

MOSCOW and SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Game Insight, a world leader in publishing and developing mobile and social games and the creator of the international megahit Mystery Manor, has revealed their next triumph: Mirrors of Albion, a hidden object adventure, coming soon for iPad. Mirrors of Albion casts players as a detective in an alternate version of Victorian England, a world that combines the suspenseful mysteries of Sherlock Holmes with the dreamy fantasy of...

The payload module of ESA’s billion-star surveyor Gaia is integrated and ready for the next stage of rigorous testing it must undergo before launch next year. Once in space, Gaia will make precise measurements of the positions and motions of a billion stars. The information will be used to create a 3D map of stars in our home Galaxy, the Milky Way, revealing information about its composition, formation and evolution. This latest image shows the payload module in the Astrium cleanroom...

PISMO BEACH, Calif., Aug. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- For decades it's been known that heliostats - sun tracking mirrors - have the potential to provide low-cost heat and light for buildings and even for industrial processes. Unfortunately, commercial heliostats have been plagued by reliability problems, high cost, and fragile mirrors, not to mention tricky-to-use control systems. And "consumer-grade" heliostats don't offer the flexibility and reliability needed for industrial work....