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TALKING CAR
BY MARK ROWE
TOYOTA and Sony have produced a ‘talking car,’ expressing emotion through headlamps positioned to resemble eyes. They signal happiness at an approaching driver by turning orange-yellow. With a puncture, they turn blue and even shed a simulated tear.…
KYOTO LATEST
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AS the world’s environment ministers meet in Marrakesh, Morocco, to agree detailed rules on the operation of the Kyoto Protocol, the European Commission has formally proposed that the EU should ratify the convention and has also tabled legislation that will bring it to life in Europe.…
ROBOT SURVEY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BOOM in the robot market that continued through the 1990’s into last year has hit the skids in north America, where demand plummeted by 28 per cent in the half-year to June. However, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe and International Federation of Robotics says that in Europe, the market is still expanding, with sales rising by 11 per cent in the first six months of 2001.…
INVESTMENT FUNDS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union business investment funds have been launched in the UK for four poorer regions eligible for so-called Objective 1 regional development money from Brussels. The European Commission is setting aside Euro 145 million for the funds, which cover Merseyside, South Yorkshire, West Wales and the Valleys, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.…
GMES ESA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Space Agency, (ESA), is to cooperate with the European Union on launching a new satellite communications system, GMES, (global monitoring for environment and security), where observation satellites will work alongside ground level sensors to collect, analyse and disseminate data.…
COMMISSION REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
DESPITE the disruption caused by the BSE and Foot and Mouth crises to the smooth operation of the EU bovine leather market, the epidemics may actually help the industry prosper in the future, a new European Commission study has claimed.…
SYNTHETIC LEATHER
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
A THIN and lightweight artificial leather has been developed by Japanese company Toray Industries. Called ECSAINE Prima, it is produced via a non-woven fabric processing technology, and combines a highly resistant polyurethane fabric with an ultra-thin surface fibre.…
COFFEE CLOTHES
BY MONICA DOBIE
A CUP of coffee just isn’t a cup of coffee anymore; two leading Canadian companies are now using stylised knitwear to make the habit of drinking coffee even more about fashion lifestyle than it was before.
Customers at one of Canada’s leading coffee retailers, Second Cup, may soon be able to purchase cool ‘coffee clothing’ along with their tall skinny mocha lattes, (with cinnamon).…
DOHA SUMMIT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
MEMBER countries of the World Trade Organisation have agreed to speed up the implementation of the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing, in a bid to mollify criticism from developing world governments that their knitwear exporters have not benefited from the ATC as widely as the had hoped.…
NEW YORK PRODUCERS
BY KATE REW
NEW York’s clothing industry was very badly disrupted by the September 11 attacks, US press reports have said. Manhattan’s Chinatown, where there are hundreds of garment factories, is just blocks away from Ground Zero. Some retail clothing stores and factories were destroyed, while many garment factories were disrupted by forced closures, loss of electricity and of phone services, delivery problems and other disruptions to their business.…