In May, Dow Chemical said it would tap a strain of Solazyme algal oil for use in electrical transformer insulating fluids.
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On Tuesday, the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) officially announced the private sector participants in its Transformer X project to build a Humvee that can take off, fly hundreds of miles, and land with little human input.
The blackout was caused by an overheated transformer in the Bio Bio area, the country's minister of energy, Ricardo Rainien, told CNN Chile.
The company announced that the SanDisk U100 SSD is being used by ASUS in the ASUS Transformer Book, the world's first notebook with a detachable tablet.
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We're also broadening our reach with a new distribution channel and continuing to see strong customer acceptance with our latest design win in the ASUS Transformer Book.
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And in April, the company will launch the Transformer All-In-One PC.
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Through a series of acquisitions, mainly in Europe, it now has in its fold Irish power substation firm Microsol and transformer makers Pauwels in Belgium and Ganz Transelektro in Hungary.
He changed his tune though when Paramount requested he film the latest Transformer movie in 3-D.
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The plastic was also a necessity after the all-metal body of the Transformer Prime resulted in widespread GPS and WiFi signal problems.
Once, before dual voltage became the standard for consumer electronics, there was plentiful physical evidence of the fact that if you plug in across systems without a transformer, the result is either a flame-out or a non-starter.
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In its email, Best Buy gave its customers the option of canceling their orders outright, replacing it with a similar device, or searching the product at a brick and mortar location (a customer service rep told us that the Transformer Prime is not in stock).
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The Transformer AiO (all-in-one) is very true to its name, as like the Autobots, it has two completely different configurations.
Outside of the Transformer films LaBeouf has starred in the latest Indiana Jones movie as well as the hits Eagle Eye and Disturbia.
Hasbro makes Transformer toys, and the third segment in that franchise, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, was released last year.
So, no, it's not the perfect, all-in-one device I was hoping for, but the Transformer Prime remains hugely impressive.
If we can get one in to review, we'll take that and our original Transformer Prime outdoors and see which display is easier to make out.
The new iPad had the biggest single impact on growth rates in the quarter, but Asus and Samsung made progress with their Transformer and Galaxy Tab product lines.
At the moment it is tiny and may not look like much, but in future it could form the basis for a real-life Transformer robot, autonomously reconfiguring itself to perform different tasks.
The ASUS Transformer Pad, ASUS Transformer Pad Prime and ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity are all scheduled to receive Android 4.1 updates in the coming months.
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Network Rail said a blown transformer at Central Cardiff station at 09:40 GMT knocked out signalling in the Cardiff area but it is not yet known if flooding was the problem.
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Top competitors Ambient and Amperion, both in the Boston area, use more elaborate coupling techniques that detour the signal around the transformer.
Substations and transformer boxes eventually reduce the power to the 110 volts that toast your muffin in the morning, but the electrical noise on a high-voltage line can destroy data signals immediately.
Top competitors Ambient (otc: ABTG - news - people ) and Amperion, both in the Boston area, use more elaborate coupling techniques that detour the signal around the transformer.
The IAEA statement was released hours after Tepco temporarily shut down the cooling system in the second unit's spent fuel pool following the discovery of dead rodents near a transformer.
The Transformer X (TX) will be designed for depositing and extracting soldiers and supplies in tough-to-reach places without easily accessible roads, taking off from a standstill and flying up to 250 miles with a 1000-pound load.
The optional dock offers the same features it always has, but for any first-time Transformer buyers who might be reading this, here's a quick primer: in addition to being an external keyboard, the dock is home to an SD card slot, a full-size USB 2.0 port and a built-in 19.5Wh battery, allowing you to go longer without charging your tablet.
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There seems to have been a sequence of technical faults (reportedly, a problematic transformer, false alarms, failed signals and an apparent power surge) at about the same time in a small area of the power grid serving London.
Whereas the old Transformer line was marked by its spun metal lids, this has a unibody polycarbonate lid, done up in white.
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