February 2010

  • Published On: February 1, 2010

    Visitors to Paris’s Grand Palais for the October 2009 premier of “From Byzantine to Istanbul” stepped inside famous Ottoman Empire mosques and churches to view the art within the domes. This feat was made possible by Zendome GmbH, Berlin, Germany, and its new geodesic projection cupola, a dome with an immersive media screen that provides [...]

  • Published On: February 1, 2010

    Clay Gaillard, public relations manager for Cummins MerCruiser Diesel, wondered how to attract attention at the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show to the QuadZeus, a 60-foot convertible power sportfishing boat. He approached marine artist Steve Goione and, later, Image Monster, a Wilmington, Del., large format printer, who came together to install the world’s biggest boat [...]

  • Published On: February 1, 2010

    Research and regulations on the environmental and safety issues of nanomaterials: a global approach. By Janice Kleinschmidt Nanotechnology data is growing exponentially as universities and industries around the world research and develop products with specific performance attributes (liquid, dirt and odor repellence, antimicrobial properties and insulating capabilities) by manipulating substances at the one-billionth-of-a-meter scale. But [...]

  • Published On: February 1, 2010

    A reset economy changes the business of specialty fabrics in the U.S. Like the U.S. automobile market, the depressed economy has reset the size, shape and growth of the specialty fabrics industry from top to bottom, throughout all market segments. As a result, there are fewer significant suppliers and end product manufacturers, and the ones [...]

  • Published On: February 1, 2010

    Global technical textile leaders converge to discuss the industry’s future and some recent innovations. By Adrian Wilson How to Enter Technical Textiles Markets,” a conference held in Edinburgh, Scotland, in October 2009, was the fifth in a series arranged by International Newsletters Ltd., publisher of Technical Textiles International and technical-textiles.net. Presenters from around the globe [...]