Johnson Controls reveals new hybrid-electric car batteries

Milwaukee - Automotive supplier Johnson Controls unveiled its newest products this week at the 2005 North American International Auto Show in Detroit. The additions to the line are part of the company’s plan to build on their existing technology, increasing ease of use for customers...

Tech entrepreneurs are everywhere besieged by Polonius-like consultants. Rather than bringing real solutions to painful problems, these consultants are expert at parroting back opinions by their clients and extending the length of their consulting contracts....

Hartford, Wis. — Emergency vehicle drivers have a new way to see vital vehicle and patient information with Hydro Electronic Devices’ dashboard video screens. Replacing the traditional series of gauges and lights with a display screen no larger than seven inches, HED has attempted to...

Most of us haven’t had too much direct experience with really bad technology. Technology that doesn’t fit, technology that irritates, technology that confuses, yes, but really, really bad technology, on the scale of the exploding Ford Pintos or more recently SUV-flipping Firestone tires? Not...

Madison, Wis. — To model something as big as the weather, the University of Wisconsin's Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies needed a bigger computer. The institute has begun testing its weather forecast data using the Altix 3700 supercomputer offered by Silicon Graphics Inc....

Madison, Wis. — Mark Cook, a tenured animal sciences professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, had seen his patents get licensed out to several businesses, only to sit on the shelves. After being approached by interested entrepreneurs, he decided to take a direct hand...