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Starkey's Zon™ Wins the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum's 2008 People's Design Award
- 2008-10-27
MINNEAPOLIS -- Starkey Laboratories, Inc., one of the world's leading hearing technology companies, is proud to announce that its ZonTM hearing aid is the winner of the 2008 People's Design Award presented by the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Zon, the best-in-class receiver-in-canal line of products that was launched this...
IMAX® Theater Film Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag Surpasses 150 Million Viewers Worldwide
- 2008-07-28
Film Has Reached Over 1 Million Viewers at the Smithsonian IMAX[R] Theaters Alone, Making It the 2nd-Highest Grossing Aviation Film Ever at the Smithsonian EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- According to Smithsonian V.P. of IMAX[R] Theater Operations, Toby Mensforth, the dynamic Giant Screen film "Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag" has...
Museum, magazine, mogul unveil furniture lines
- 2007-05-14
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- You'll soon see three new furniture lines from American institutions: The Smithsonian, Better Homes and Gardens -- and Donald Trump. Trump created the most buzz when new looks were unveiled at the High Point Market, formerly the International Home Furnishings Market. He strode the red...
Smithsonian to display GPS pioneer's FoneFinder
- 2007-05-01
Boston inventor Robert Tendler is being recognized by the Smithsonian Institution for his groundbreaking work with GPS, reports the Boston Globe. Meanwhile, Tendler is engaged in a lawsuit against the General Motors business unit OnStar for patent infringement. A patent lawyer, Tendler holds nearly a dozen patents. In the...
National Museum of American History Acquires Emergency 911 Cell- phone Technology
- 2007-04-16
To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORSContact: Valeska Hilbig of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, +1-202-633-3129 WASHINGTON, April 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History has received an important collection of prototypes and patent papers that document a pioneering 911 GPS cell phone, the FoneFinder, from inventor Bob Tendler....
A study in storage.(RESEARCH)
- 2007-03-01
A University of Central Florida team has developed a digital storage system that can hold as many as 500 movies--or the entire collection of historical documents from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum--on one DVD-size disk or a small cube. The Two-Photon 3-D Optical Data...
Smithsonian packing treasures
- 2006-09-03
WASHINGTON -- Oscar the Grouch probably won't be happy about his next home: a cold, dark box that is far from "Sesame Street" and his beloved trash can. The puppet is among tens of thousands of exhibits and artifacts that will be carefully stored as the Smithsonian Institution's...
Carousel to spin again at Please Touch
- 2006-05-10
The Please Touch Museum intends to resurrect the flamboyant carousel that bobbed and flashed around and around in Woodside Park before the park was demolished in the 1950s, museum officials announced yesterday. The 1924 carousel, considered one of the finest productions of the famous Philadelphia-based Dentzel Carousel Co., has...
Press Briefing and Tour of Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture, March 23
- 2006-03-16
News Advisory WHAT: Press briefing and tour of the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture, home of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery WHEN:Thursday, March 23 9:30 a.m. -- Sign-in and refreshments 10 a.m. -- Presentation by museum directors, followed by Q&A and...
National Gems.(REPORT)
- 2006-01-01
The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History holds one of the world's most esteemed gem collections. In The National Gem Collection, Dr. Jeffrey Post, curator of the national gem and mineral collection, discusses everything from diamonds and lapis lazuli to the Hope Diamond and other...
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