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- Ember Helps LG Add ZigBee to HomNet Digital Home Technology
- Business Wire (6/11/2007)
- LG Electronics (LG) has teamed with Ember to ZigBee-enable its digital home technology for controlling and automating home energy efficiency, security, appliances and other devices. ZigBee is an open industry wireless network standard that solves the unique needs of remote monitoring and control, and sensor network applications.LG, a world leader in consumer electronics and mobile communications, is integrating Ember's EM250 ZigBee system-on-chip into its HomNet™ home networking system.
- Eleksen Announces Next-Generation Dry Cleanable, Programmable Sensors
- Business Wire (6/11/2007)
- Eleksen Group plc. (AIM:ELG.L), the world's leading provider of touch-sensitive smart fabrics for consumer electronics in apparel and accessories, today announces the release of new dry cleanable, programmable sensor technology--the next generation of its flagship ElekTex sensors for embedding in apparel to create wearable electronics. The new sensor is suitable for integration into hoodies, board shorts, shirts and jeans and also works for high fashion apparel such as evening gowns and suits, enabling control of today's most popular electronic devices.In this latest technology breakthrough, Eleksen has created this new version of ElekTex textile touchpads that can be dry cleaned, opening the door for manufacturers of more high-end apparel to incorporate this novel technology into their designs.
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Lifeware Chosen by the Momentum Group as MDU Automation System
- ebuild (6/7/2007)
- Exceptional Innovation, producers of Lifeware digital entertainment and automation solutions, are proud to announce that Life|ware has been chosen for all of The Momentum Group"s (TMG) Multi Dwelling Unit (MDU) projects and to interface with RITA (Residence Interactive Technology Consultant) Concierge Services.
- Powermat Cuts the Cord
- Business Week (6/7/2007)
- It was about a year ago at a Silicon Valley tech conference when domestic doyenne Martha Stewart voiced the frustration felt by everyone who's ever been confounded by a preponderance of electronic device charge cords.Stewart, founder of Martha Stewart Omnimedia (MSO), pointedly asked Sony (SNE) Chief Executive Howard Stringer why the power-charging cord for one device couldn't be swapped for the cord of a different, comparable gadget. The Israeli entrepreneur is chairman of a startup called Powermat, one of a growing handful of companies dedicated to breaking the tyranny of power cords and wall sockets.
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All Stars: Building Products Presents the 2007 MVP Award Winners
- BUILDING PRODUCTS Magazine (6/7/2007)
- Each year, Building Products' Most Valuable Product Awards competition singles out an elite group of new products worthy of special recognition. This year, 32 products--ranging from a limestone veneer to a water-conserving showerhead to steam-assist ovens--have been deemed the latest crop of top-notch products by our panel of expert judges. These products offer ways to make your job easier, your projects more stunning, and your business more profitable. And they just might add a little fun back into your work day.
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New Builder Packages and Life|ware 2.0 Highlight Exceptional Innovation's K/BIS Offerings
- ebuild (6/6/2007)
- Exceptional Innovation, producers of Life|ware digital entertainment and automation solutions announces four new Life|ware Builder packages designed to let home builders quickly offer complete digital entertainment and home automation upgrade options for their homebuyers. Life|ware 2.0 provides at-a-glance, gallery-style view of home subsystems - lights, thermostats, and more. By replicating the distinctive Windows Vista interface look, feel and navigation, Life|ware 2.0 presents a crisp interface that is intuitive, simple to learn and easy to use.
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Custom Builders USA Selects Lifeware as Their Exclusive Electronics Package Offering
- ebuild (6/6/2007)
- Exceptional Innovation, producers of Lifeware digital entertainment and home automation solutions, announces an exclusive partnership with Custom Builders USA (CBUSA) that will make the solution available in packaged form for builders in 12 domestic markets. As a manufacturer, EI is part of CBUSA's "Partners in Quality" (PIQ) program, a professional organization dedicated to developing and maintaining powerful, local networks of professional builders, vendors and national manufacturers to achieve lower costs, higher levels of service and increased productivity.
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Lutron Electronics Launches New Security Lighting Control Package for its AuroRa System
- ebuild (5/31/2007)
- The Lutron AuroRa system was designed as a low-cost, simplified, radio frequency (RF)-based lighting control system that lets homeowners create a safe path of light into, and throughout the home from the car, patio and bedside. This pre-programmed system gives users the ability to enjoy the safety, simplicity and comfort of lighting control without any installation hassles, setup or programming.
- The Healthy, Hip High-Tech Home
- Business Week (5/29/2007)
- Peter Bils has a bone to pick with Big Pharma. "Pharmaceutical [companies] are looking to regulate your sleep and wake cycles with pills," says Bils, who's chairman of the sleep advisory board of Select Comfort. And using recent research that shows people need seven cycles of sleep for the best rest, the maker of the Sleep Number bed is investigating new products that would help regulate those rhythms with natural sleep aids like lighting control and watches that calculate a body's high and low points during the day.
- Good Wall Mount Puts Flat-Panel TVs in Their Proper Spot
- Cincinnati Post (5/26/2007)
- Would you believe that nine out of 10 of us are giving up our dreams for the price of a wall mount? Most of us in the market for a flat-screen TV are visualizing a clean look, flush with the wall, high above a fireplace. But amazingly, only one in 10 flat- panel TVs actually gets hung up once we get it home.
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