Start with the news release Elliot offers two products from Craic Technologies from Elliot Scientific, which we summarised at the time by saying "Elliot Scientific has introduced two products from Craic Technologies for researchers and manufacturers in the UK and Ireland: the Thermal Stage package and the QDI 302 microscope spectrophotometer.". Several months prior to that, we featured the news release Dotslide uses microscopy to generate virtual slide from Olympus Life Science Europa: "Olympus has introduced an improved version of its Dotslide virtual slide system. ".
 
In February 2010, we covered the news from Applied Scientific Instrumentation (ASI) - take a look at ASI automated microscope has modular design which says: "The Rapid Automated Modular Microscope (RAMM) system from ASI provides a modular design that allows the user to develop a system to meet their specific requirements.".
 
Take a look also at the news release from Leica Microsytems, Remotecare tool predicts system issues, as well as Spectrophotometer aids OLED device development from Craic Technologies, and TM3000 microscope provides 30,000x magnification from Hitachi High-Technologies.