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CONTENTS OF #4 2007

News from LYYN

LYYN receives 7 million SEK (about 1 MUSD) cash injection from Östersjöstiftelsen

Recommended reading
Are You Right Eyed Or Left Eyed?
The brain is functionally asymmetric

Perfect squares
an optical illusion

 

NEWS FROM LYYN
LYYN receives 7 million SEK (about 1 MUSD) cash injection from Östersjöstiftelsen

“We are extremely pleased to welcome Östersjöstiftelsen (The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies) as a new owner in LYYN. With Östersjöstiftelsen’s cash injection and their experience in developing companies in a similar phase to ours, we see a very bright future.

We released our first product, LYYN T38, in November last year. This has been well received by the market, especially within the offshore and submarine technology areas. Since then we have recruited over 20 resellers throughout the world, and several more are in the queue. This means that LYYN needs to grow quickly which in turn requires a stronger capital base.

In addition to increased marketing investments we are also initiating the development of our next generation products, which will be adapted to the requirements of the surveillance industry, thereby opening up new, interesting markets for us.” Says LYYN’s CEO Andreas Ekengren.

”Augmenta Venture Partners has followed LYYN on its exciting journey from an early stage to today’s breakthrough. Now the company is growing from ”seed stage” and needs to increase its activities. We therefore welcome Östersjöstiftelsen as a new long-term shareholder in LYYN.” Concludes Mats Cremon, Chairman of the Board of LYYN.

”LYYN is an exciting innovation company that is at a stage that fits in well with our investment strategies. As in every other project there is a high risk but the market potential is very great. This adds up to an extremely interesting investment.” Says Per-Olof Edin at Östersjöstiftelsen.

VideoRay Joins with LYYN AB to Deliver Revolutionary Video Enhancement

New technology “sees” in real time through cloudy water

Lund , May 30, 2007

VideoRay LLC, of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, announced an agreement today with LYYN AB of Lund, Sweden.

The agreement enables VideoRay users – both of existing and newly purchased systems – access to new video clarification technology. The LYYN T38 processes the video image captures by VideoRay submersibles to remove the “fog” of murky water and reveal the objects and targets that have previously been difficult or impossible to detect and recognize.

VideoRay expert Steven Borthwick of Subsea ROV Services based in Falkirk, Scotland, used the T38 on a recent inside a coal-fired power plant.

The water in the tunnels was so muddy that no usable video was available without the T38. However, using the T38 images of mussels and silt buildup were clear, as was sufficient detail to show that drawings from 1962 were an accurate depiction of the tunnel network.

“Without the LYYN technology we would not have been able to complete this job to anywhere near the level of completeness and precision” said Mr. Borthwick. “No one at the power station had ever seen what it looked like, and now they can arrange for a proper cleanup – without endangering divers for an inspection.”

Inspection class ROV operators can find out more about this technology and how to obtain it by going to VideoRay’s accessories page.


Drawings from 1962 showing the route the VideoRay took through the plant.

About VideoRay
VideoRay now has far more Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) in service around the world than any manufacturer, and is delivering additional ROVs at an increasing rate. Weighing just 8 pounds and starting at $5995 USD, VideoRays can be equipped with video cameras, sonar, positioning systems or other accessories, and are used for underwater surveys, offshore inspections, search and recovery, homeland defense, science, fish farming and a range of applications in underwater environments. See http://www.videoray.com for more information.

RECOMMENDED READING
Are You Right Eyed Or Left Eyed?

Look with both your eyes and point at a distant object. Keep pointing and close your left eye. If you are still pointing at the same object you are "right-eyed". Otherwise you are "left-eyed".

To be right-handed and left-eyed is a perfect combination. Such a person performs better at work than collegues with other combinations. Left-eyed right-handed people reads faster and understands quicker, shows a new study at the Modern University for the Humanities in Moscow.

The experiment involved all right-handed students, but some of them had the right eye leading, the others – the left eye leading. All probationers were offered to read a text on the PC screen, the text being placed either in the right or in the left part of the screen, while the probationers’ head was oriented to the center (in such conditions, visual information from the left half-field of vision was addressed to the right hemisphere, and vice versa). It has turned out that the “left-eyed” probationers read the text quicker when it is placed on the left, than the text placed on the right. As for the “right-eyed” individuals, no such differences were noticed with them.

As all the probationers are right-handed persons, the control over their leading right hand is performed by the left hemisphere. With the right-eyed, the same left hemisphere also controls the leading right eye. As for the left-eyed persons, the leading left eye is controlled by the right hemisphere, which is free from control over the leading hand’s movements.

And this works out better. Therefore, the “left-eyed” persons read quicker on their left.

Read more in Science Daily

Perfect squares

This is a picture of perfect squares...

Or is it? Click on the image and see for yourself.

END NOTES

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