Offbeat events offer a fun reason to visit Philadelphia (Baltimore Sun)

Philadelphia offers day-trippers plenty of normal reasons to head to the city, from touring its myriad historic sites and museums to attending its heavy schedule of major concerts and sporting events.

Going Beyond The Status Quo In Space (SpaceRef)

While appearing barren, the Moon has the resources upon which to build a prototype space civilization. It is a power-rich environment, permitting initial steps to be undertaken using proven, inexpensive solar power generation technology.

Turtle Wings Flock Multiplies (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)

Turtle Wings Environmental Services is pleased to announce Douglass Yale as the newest addition to its staff. Mr. Yale worked as an Environmental Lobbyist for the Florida Consumer Action Network.

International Datacasting Corporation's 3D Products With Sensio(R) Technology Part of Surgical Demo in South Korea (Marketwire)

Products Used for Live, Real-Time 3D Medical Imaging

International Datacasting Corporation's 3D Products With Sensio(R) Technology Part of Surgical Demo in South Korea (CCNMatthews via Yahoo! Finance)

OTTAWA, ONTARIO-- - International Datacasting Corporation, a global leader in providing advanced solutions for the distribution of broadband multimedia content delivery announced today that its Superflex 3D Live Encoders and Decoders with Sensio technology on board, were used in a live 3D demonstration of a robotic surgical system held at the 9th Annual Conference of Laparoscopic ...

United States DoD contracts for June 15, 2009 (Defence Professionals)

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TIE Technologies Announces Architron Distributorship (dBusinessNews.com)

NEW YORK -- TIE Technologies, Inc. today announced a distributorship agreement with wireless communications systems manufacturer Architron Systems, Inc. of Las Vegas, Nevada.

'Contemporary Traditions of Folk Art' fuses traditions at Promega (Isthmus)

Happily, the world is filled with all sorts of art, from bizarro installations that tax your brain to laid-back art that, if it could, would kick back on the beach and party You'll find an example of the latter kind at Promega's gallery within the Biopharmaceutical Technology Center in Fitchburg.

Coke's RFID-Based Dispensers Redefine Business Intelligence (InformationWeek)

The Freestyle drink dispensers will give consumers more than 100 beverage choices -- and provide the beverage maker with valuable consumption data.

Video gaga (The Australian)

Double Take: Anne Landa Award for Video and New Media Arts Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney. Until July 19. WE all know Hans Christian Andersen's story of the ugly duckling, the ungainly creature that was rejected by its fellows but turned out not to be one of them at all, for it was really a little swan.