The Eastman Business Park (EBP) continues to increase its own brand awareness with newly updated monument signs in two key locations - - on the corner of West Ridge Road and Lake Avenue, and at the entrance of what is known as Building 28, located at 200 West Ridge Road.  



This is just one example of our ongoing efforts to market the site as a viable and attractive opportunity for businesses looking to relocate and/or expand in the Rochester area.  We're working hard to ensure our message is received loud and clear....that the Eastman Business Park is unparalleled in its offerings and advantages to a wide variety of industrial and manufacturing tenants.



Visit us at eastmanbusinesspark.com for more information on what we have to offer.

Stay tuned for more exciting activities happening at Eastman Business Park, and be sure to share our story with others.

Kodak OLED technology will be featured on Green Magazine TV Thursday, June 25 at 8:30 am on the Time Warner Cable Channel 36, Dish Network Channel 182, and DIRECTV Channel 278.

The show is about companies that are leading the way to a more sustainable future. Kodak's continued innovations in OLED technology will make the world a better place, with applications in both flat panel display and solid-state lighting. Kodak's compelling OLED "Green" impact will ultimately result in panels having fewer sub-components for ease of recycling, absence of heavy metals requiring special handling (such as mercury), and lower energy consumption. 

We are proud to know that all OLED products will use Kodak's invention of OLED technology. Kodak's leadership role in OLED technology represents what Kodak is all about ... "Making the World a Better Place" for many generations to come.

Here is the clip about Kodak OLED technology...

RANDOM TRIVIA:  The host of Green Magazine TV, Tristan Rogers, has connections to Rochester, NY (headquarters of Kodak). He has played Robert Scorpio on the soap opera General Hospital for many years. General Hospital is set in a city that looks suspiciously like Rochester, NY - it even has the same area code! When some of the show's best-loved characters, Luke and Laura, returned in the 90s, they shot the outdoor scenes right here in Rochester. A couple of scenes stand out for fans of GH - Luke and Laura jumping from a helicopter over a waterfall (shot over our city's High Falls) and driving a pink Cadillac down Main Street.

As long as we're playing Six Degrees of Separation ...  Kodak is connected to Vincent Pastore of The Sopranos (he showed us all how he feels about pricey ink), who is currently a cast member on GH.

With last week's launch of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, NASA is taking the first steps to send a new generation of astronauts to the moon. This mission is designed to map out the terrain of the moon, identify resources on or near the surface, and better understand the radiation environment - all with the goal of aiding in the design of a future lunar outpost.

Just before the launch, I wrote about how Kodak CCD Image Sensors will play a key role in this mission. But you may not know that this isn't the first time Kodak technology has been involved in a space mission to map the moon.

1960's Lunar Orbiter

In the mid 1960's, NASA was in a situation similar to where they are today - looking to send astronauts to the moon, but needing high-resolution images of the surface to evaluate potential landing sites for the Apollo missions. To get those images, NASA knew they would need to send spacecraft to the moon to map the lunar surface, but since the technology didn't exist then to use high-resolution digital sensors (as NASA is doing today with the LRO mission), they needed a different approach.

One that Kodak developed.

Imaging Unit of Lunar Orbiter

Looking at it now, the solution that was devised for these missions was really amazing. As described on NASA's web page for these missions, the imaging unit in these Lunar Orbiters consisted of a dual-lens camera (to capture both high- and low-resolution pictures), a film processing unit, a readout scanner, and a film handling apparatus. Film passed through the camera as the unit orbited the moon, capturing images of the lunar surface as it flew by. The film was then processed and scanned, and the images were then transmitted back to Earth - basically, the entire unit was a combination camera, mini-lab, and TV station.

All operating while orbiting the moon, over 200,000 miles from Earth.

First view of Earth taken from the moon (from Lunar Orbiter 1)

The Lunar Orbiter missions were an unqualified success, collectively photographing 99% of the moon's surface with a resolution of 60 meters or better, and providing the information needed for the safe landing of the Apollo missions. Today, one of these imaging cameras - made for a Lunar Orbiter mission that never flew - is on display as a part of the Technology Collection at the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film. Todd Gustavson, curator of Technology from George Eastman House, has put together an excellent video podcast about this imaging system - be sure to check it out.

In 2004, the Kodak organization involved in this work was incorporated into the Space Systems Division of ITT, where they continue developing imaging systems for earth-orbiting satellites today. But through programs like the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (as well as other orbiters around Mars and Venus, plus the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station), Kodak still remains a key participant in the space program, providing world-class imaging technology that is used throughout the solar system.

Just as we have for over 40 years.

During the first week of June, I was in San Antonio, Texas for the Society for Information Display's annual trade show. This is typically a techie show where you can find all the latest innovations in display technology, i.e. LCD screens for mobile phones, TVs & laptops; big plasma TVs; and newer technologies, like Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) and e-paper.  This year's show did not disappoint in that area, but there was also something new to be found on the show floor and in the technical symposiums - new lighting technology for a more sustainable world.

You are probably wondering what lamps have to do with laptop screens, right? It turns out that the organic layers you use to make an OLED for a TV can be used to make a flat "light bulb." This new "light bulb" is really a solid state light source that can greatly reduce the amount of electricity needed to provide the world's lighting and eliminate certain heavy metals, like mercury, from the light fixtures in our homes and workplaces.  You can see a video of the OLED light panels Kodak demonstrated at Display Week on YouTube:



RANDOM TRIVIA:  Even though Kodak is headquartered in Rochester, NY, we found our very own Kodak Building in San Antonio.
 


Thanks to our intrepid scientist, Tom Pawlik, we can fill in that question mark! Kodak was part of the International Exposition HemisFair in 1968, whose theme was to celebrate man's desire to go higher and farther in his constant search for achievements.



To that end, the 622-foot Tower of the Americas was constructed in HemisFair Park and was the tallest observation tower in the Western Hemisphere, at the time.
 

Kodak has returned to San Antonio, 41 years later, to demonstrate some our latest achievements. Just as San Antonio's HemisFair Park has evolved into the tourist-mecca that is the Riverwalk, Kodak has progressed from photography to new technologies for lighting and displays.
 

The Washington Post featured a review of the Kodak W1020 Digital Frame by PCWorld.


"The Kodak W1020 frame ($160 as of 5/7/2009) stands out thanks to its ease of use (in most respects), with or without Kodak's proprietary software."