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The "red dot award: product design" is a world-class award
presented by Germany's Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen.
Award-winning products must exhibit design superiority in nine
areas, including innovation, functionality, ergonomics, ecology
and durability. More than 4,000 products from 57 nations took
part in the competition this year. Two cameras from Nikon were
selected to receive the "red dot award: product design 2010":
the COOLPIX S1000pj compact digital camera and the D5000
digital-SLR camera. The award-winning products were displayed
at the red dot design museum in Essen, Germany from July 6 to
August 1.
■ http://www.nikon.com/about/news/2010/0330_reddot_01.htm |
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| Farmers cover their fields with mulch films for a variety of
reasons, such as to conserve water, suppress weeds and
manage temperatures. MKV Dream Co., Ltd., a company of
the Mitsubishi Plastics Group, has recently launched sales of
a biodegradable mulch film called “CAELUCCI™”, which uses
Mitsubishi Chemical’s biodegradable polymer, “GS Pla”. After
the harvest, this mulch film can be tilled into the soil, where it
decomposes into water and carbon dioxide. “CAELUCCI™ ”
aims for farmers not only to save overall costs, for |
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Located between Tokyo Station and the Imperial Palace,
Marunouchi is an international business center as well as a
burgeoning shopping district. Marunouchi’s presence as a
cultural hub was also bolstered on April 6 with the opening of the
Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo. People have flocked to the
museum to see its inaugural exhibit, “Manet et le Paris moderne”
(Manet and Modern Paris). On the 36th day of the exhibit, the
number of visitors surpassed 100,000. Mitsubishi Estate has long played a central role in shaping the development of
Marunouchi and the Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo is just
one of many notable achievements realized under the company’s
Marunouchi Redevelopment Project.
■http://mimt.jp
■http://mimt.jp/english/index.html |
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©RMN/Musée d’Orsay)/
Hervé Lewandowski/distribyted
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| Shortages of silicon, the principal material used in most solar cells,
have stimulated increased interest in copper indium selenide (CIS)
solar cells as a promising alternative to conventional silicon-based
technologies. A photovoltaic power generation system using these
next-generation solar cells was introduced at the NYK Tokyo
Container Terminal in February 2010 by NYK Trading Corporation,
a company of the NYK Group. The system, which has a maximum
power-generating capacity of 135.15 kW, became fully operational
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130,000 kWh, which is equivalent to about one percent of the
electricity consumed annually at the terminal.
■http://www.nyk.com/english/release/788/NE_100406.html
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