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Nokia Bluetooth Headset BH-10216th May 2012 (europe.nokia.com) Attractive, reliable, and easy to use. The Nokia Bluetooth Headset BH-102 is the ideal partner for your mobile device. With an optional earloop and a rechargeable battery with up to 10 hours of talk time, there’s no reason for them to ever be apart again. Read more on Nokia Bluetooth Headset BH-102» Samsung Galaxy Tab-219th April 2012 (pk.msn.com) The arrival of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 may be further delayed, following reports that the Korean giant wants to upgrade the device with a quad-core processor. Read more on Samsung Galaxy Tab-2» Debris threatens Space Station28th March 2012 (news.yahoo.com) A passing piece of potentially dangerous space debris forced astronauts at the International Space Station to temporarily seek refuge in escape ships early on Saturday, U.S. officials said. Read more on Debris threatens Space Station» Procision 3D Projectors8th March 2012 (gadgets-guru.info) Here is JVC Procision and Reference series of projectors launch in market with modern features. This is the new black slim reference series 3d projectors is comes with e-Shift technology. Read more on Procision 3D Projectors» StayFit Wireless Heart Rate Monitor20th February 2012 (hotref.com) To encourage employees to enroll in corporate fitness programs, offer this combination heart monitor and FM radio. Buy StayFit Wireless Heart Rate Monitor» Speaker and Microphone20th February 2012 (hotref.com) Give the ultimate executive gift by offering this fun, yet functional technology item as a giveaway to meeting attendees. Buy Speaker and Microphone » 301v Bluetooth Headset25th January 2012 (ecoustics.com) Powermate announced at CES the BlueFox™ Voice Controlled 4x Noise Cancelling Bluetooth® Headset featuring Sensory, Inc.'s leading voice control technology. Buy 301v Bluetooth Headset » Marconi NM-1/622SMIRLC9th January 2012 (shopricom.com) Marconi is a major international group focused on high growth communications and selective markets for high technology products in which it has strong positions. Buy Marconi NM-1/622SMIRLC » App Toyz Remote Control iPhone Helicopter14th December 2011 (gadgets.co.uk) There are hundreds of helicopter apps for the iPhone, but none of them come close to the sheer awesome-ness of this one! The AppCopter comes with an actual remote control helicopter and turns your phone into a remote control so that you can really fly the helicopter through the skies. Buy App Toyz Remote Control iPhone Helicopter » Cell Phone Recon Monitor all cell phone activity from your computer -- including calls and text messages. Buy Cell Phone Recon » Messless Charging Station5th January 2011 (gadgets.co.uk) Say goodbye to lost chargers or messy tangles of cables with the great new Messless Charging Station. Complete with charging connectors for most popular makes of electronic gadgets and gizmos Messless is the sure-fire way of meeting all your charging needs in one neat and tidy location. Read more on Messless Charging Station » SoftBank develops robot cameras24th May 2010 (engadget.com) Do you love robots -- and pets -- although you're not quite ready to take the dive into actual robot pet ownership? You're in luck! Those crazy kids at SoftBank are back again with the Mimamori line of remote control robot cameras. Read more on SoftBank develops robot cameras » Audiences, and Hollywood, Flock to Smartphones3rd May 2010 (nytimes.com) The mobile-video audience is tiny, but TV and film companies foresee an increasingly wireless world — and don't want to be left out of the picture. Read more on Audiences, and Hollywood, Flock to Smartphones » Robonaut ready for duty15th April 2010 (msn.com) When Discovery's six astronauts take the final space shuttle ride to orbit in September, there'll be one more rider sitting in the back of the bus: Robonaut 2, the semi-humanoid robot created by NASA and GM. Read more on Robonaut ready for duty » Skin Deep Storage25th February 2010 (firstscience.com) These days, some people are following their pets and getting tagged. Radio frequency identification (RFID) chips are the size of a grain of rice and can be loaded up with personal information like passwords and implanted under the skin. Read more on Skin Deep Storage » How Fingerprint Scanners Work23rd February 2010 (howstuffworks.com) Computerized fingerprint scanners have been a mainstay of spy thrillers for decades, but up until recently, they were pretty exotic technology in the real world. In the past few years, however, scanners have started popping up all over the place -- in police stations, high-security buildings and even on PC keyboards. Read more on How Fingerprint Scanners Work » Robot Builds Brick Wall22nd February 2010 (sciencedaily.com) A robot is currently building a looping brick wall right in the middle of New York. Over a period of three weeks, passers-by can watch the "Pike Loop" installation in the making on a traffic island. The digitally controlled construction of the sculpture was developed at ETH-Zurich's Professorship of Architecture and Digital Fabrication. Read more on Robot Builds Brick Wall In New York City » Microsoft Starts Over in Phone Software17th February 2010 (nytimes.com) The frenetic pace of the mobile phone industry has forced some of the technology world's largest players to make a break with the past. Read more on Microsoft Starts Over in Phone Software » How does solar power work?2nd February 2010 (scientificamerican.com) The sun-that power plant in the sky—bathes Earth in ample energy to fulfill all the world's power needs many times over. It doesn't give off carbon dioxide emissions. It won't run out. And it's free. Read more on How does solar power work? » Mysteries of How a Star Is Born2nd February 2010 (scientificamerican.com) Although astronomers' theory of star formation has advanced substantially in recent years, it still has serious holes. Stars form out of gaseous clouds that collapse, yet where do those clouds come from and what makes them collapse? Read more on Mysteries of How a Star Is Born » HP Slate26th January 2010 (engadget.com) The HP Slate -- has there ever been a more iconic, more groundbreaking, more life-altering device? Oh, there has? Well anyway, HP CTO Phil McKinney has been friendly enough to share some of the history behind the development of his company's newly announced tablet, which is set for a release at some point later this year. Read more on HP Slate » Artificial Muscles Restore Ability to Blink19th January 2010 (sciencedaily.com) Surgeons from UC Davis Medical Center have demonstrated that artificial muscles can restore the ability of patients with facial paralysis to blink, a development that could benefit the thousands of people each year who no longer are able to close their eyelids due to combat-related injuries, stroke, nerve injury or facial surgery. Read Article on Artificial Muscles Restore Ability to Blink » Remote Triggering System For Avalanche Airbags Developed14th January 2010 (sciencedaily.com) The inviting expanse of shimmering snow contrasts with the benign blue sky above. The ski instructor briefly goes over the planned run, his first charge glides off into the distance … and sets off a slab avalanche. The group all look on helplessly as their friend is buried under a wall of snow. Read Article on Remote Triggering System For Avalanche Airbags Developed » A Tongue-Tracking Artificial Larynx3rd December 2009 (technologyreview.com) Researchers in South Africa are working on a new kind of artificial larynx that won't have the raspy voice of existing devices. The system tracks contact between the tongue and palate to determine which word is being mouthed, and uses a speech synthesizer to generate sounds. Read Article on A Tongue-Tracking Artificial Larynx » Nano Measurement In The Third Dimension14th October 2009 (sciencedaily.com) From the motion sensor to the computer chip, in many products of daily life components are used whose functioning is based on smallest structures of the size of thousandths -- or even millionths -- of millimetres. These micro and nano structures must be manufactured and assembled with the highest precision so that in the end, the overall system will function smoothly. Read Article on Nano Measurement In The Third Dimension » 4 Ways to Smarten up Your Car7 August 2009 (discovermagazine.com) MOBILE COMPUTING They haven't quite created KITT —the chatty artificial intelligence built into the automotive star of television's Knight Rider—but Dashboard Devices lets you give your ordinary car a dose of smarts with the $2,750 ENV-XC. This computer is built around a 1.66-gigahertz Intel Core Duo processor, with 1 gigabyte of memory and a 160-GB hard drive. It connects to an in-dash touch screen, which replaces your car radio controls, and features a DVD-read/write drive; a USB portto connect additional devices, such as a keyboard for writing e-mail; a GPS navigation system; and WiFi.Read Article on 4 Ways to Smarten up Your Car » Scientists on call: the mobile phone lab22 July 2009 (wired.co.uk) Scientists have successfully screened sputum and blood samples for TB, malaria, and sickle-cell anaemia using a fluorescent light microscope built into a mobile phone. The technique could improve mobile screening facilities, especially in developing countries. Read Article on Scientists on call: the mobile phone lab » Nuclear power could cost trillions over renewables24 June 2009 (scientificamerican.com) Nuclear power plants may not emit greenhouse gases, but they sure could suck in the tax dollars. An analysis by economist Mark Cooper at the Vermont Law School claims that adding 100 new reactors to the U.S. power grid would cost taxpayers and customers between $1.9 and $4.1 trillion over the reactors’ lifetimes compared with renewable power sources and conservation measures. The analysis factors in studies from Wall Street and independent energy analysts estimating the efficiency of renewable energy at 6 cents per kilowatt hour versus 12 to 20 cents per kilowatt hour for nuclear. Cooper says those costs will fall on either ratepayers through higher electric bills or on taxpayers through large subsidies. Read Article on Nuclear power could cost trillions over renewables» Of Telescopes and Ticks: How Mount Wilson Observatory Became an Infectious Disease Study Site10 June 2009 (scientificamerican.com) Larry Webster has been working at Mount Wilson Observatory outside Los Angeles for more than 30 years, doing everything from keeping toilets flushing and adjusting mirrors to mapping sunspots. In September 2006, the 51-year-old solar observer came into work looking more like he was 90. He was dehydrated, jaundiced and had lost a lot of weight. Although he spent a month in and out of emergency rooms for symptoms of nausea and vomiting, doctors were uncertain what had caused his illness. So Webster began his own investigations into the source of the ailment and his mysterious case would eventually pique the interest of California health officials and convince an entomologist named Tom Schwan to fly halfway across the country in order to catch ticks inside the historic observatory. Read Article on Of Telescopes and Ticks: How Mount Wilson Observatory Became an Infectious Disease Study Site» High-tech teaching to fire young imaginations10 June 2009 (wired.co.uk) Beanbags, 3D projectors, cashless lunch payments, Big Brother diary rooms, sleek Scandi-style furniture and even a classroom robot - ‘School weren’t like that in my day,' I grunt in my gruffest accent. RM, a British education and technology specialist, claims that we're on the verge of a 'classroom revolution,' and that teachers are already embracing cutting-edge gadgets to connect with a generation of children who are computer literate before they can walk. The company has created ‘an imaginarium of future learning’ which it hopes will persuade local education authorities and teachers that technology can improve their ability to get their message across to children. It all begins with slick but simple furniture designs that bring flexibility into the classroom: tables that can be raised and swivelled to become projector screens, and sofa chairs that fold away into small cubes when reading time is over. Read Article on High-tech teaching to fire young imaginations » Oilrigs 'vulnerable to hacking10 June 2009 (wired.co.uk) The world's oilrigs are vulnerable to hacking because their security is inadequate, according to SINTEF, an independent research organisation in Scandinavia. While oil companies have made huge improvements in offshore safety and environmental protection, their efforts to secure important data have been poor, the SINTEF team says. The group says that the current "integrated operations" model, which uses onshore workers to control processes carried out on the platform via networked PCs, leaves communications open to attack. According to Science Daily, the team interviewed "key personnel in the petroleum sector" to get a sense of the data protection measures currently in place. The interviewees confirmed "that the number of safety incidents on production systems (platforms) has risen during past few years." Read Article on Oilrigs 'vulnerable to hacking» Robot sub reaches the world's deepest abyss3 June 2009 (guardian) A robotic submarine named Nereus has become the third craft in history to reach the deepest part of the world's oceans, at the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean. The dive to Challenger Deep, an abyss within the Mariana Trench that reaches 11,000 metres beneath the waves, was completed on 31 May by a team from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), Massachussetts, US. For the expedition, the team had to build a new breed of remotely-operated submarine, called Nereus, which is capable of going deeper than any other while still filming and collecting samples. Sunday's dive makes it the world's deepest-diving vehicle, and the first vehicle to explore the Mariana Trench since 1998. So far only a single picture taken by Nereus at the bottom of the trench has been released, see image, right. Read Article on Robot sub reaches the world's deepest abyss » Websites 'keeping deleted photos'22 May 2009 (bbc.co.uk) User photographs can still be found on many social networking sites even after people have deleted them, Cambridge University researchers have said. They put photos on 16 popular websites - noting the web addresses where the images were stored - and deleted them. Read Article on Websites 'keeping deleted photos'» Is that your power plant on my roof?14 May 2009 (scientificamerican.com) Over the next year, the utility plans to spend $50 million to plop a variety of different kinds of photovoltaic panels on commercial buildings, the roofs of private homes, and other property in North Carolina. Once installed, the 10 megawatts worth of solar panels are expected to produce enough alternating-current electricity to power 1,300 homes. But the utility’s main goals for the demonstration project are to gain experience with distributed generation—putting the power plant closer to the customer—and with integrating intermittent, renewable resources like sunshine into the grid. Read Article on Is that your power plant on my roof?» Boston Dynamics-designed RiSE V3 robot climbs poles, haunts dreams14 May 2009 (engadget.com) The folks at Boston Dynamics have already made quite a name for themselves in the world of creepy robotics, but it looks like they're not ones to keep all their know-how to themselves, and they've now lent the University of Pennsylvania's Kod*lab a hand with this new RiSE V3 pole-climbing robot. That, as you've no doubt surmised, is a followup to RiSE V1 and V2, which were developed without the help of Boston Dynamics and were more suited to climbing flat surfaces than poles. In addition to a vastly different leg mechanism, this latest model also makes use of some brushless DC motors that increase the power density to let it climb poles at rates up to 22cm per second, which the researchers say make it well-suited for a wide range of tasks. As you can see for yourself in the video after the break, the bot mostly seems to work remarkably well, although it's obviously not quite ready to tackle critical jobs all by itself just yet. View Video on Boston Dynamics-designed RiSE V3 robot climbs poles, haunts dreams» Sea 'snake' generates electricity with every wave8 May 2009 (newscientist.com) Anaconda, a giant rubber "snake" that floats offshore and converts wave energy to electricity, is a step closer to commercialisation. An 8-metre long, 1/25th scale version is currently undergoing tests in a large wave tank in Gosport, UK, and a full-size working version could be a reality in five years. Harnessing the power of waves is an attractive proposition because they are much more energy dense than wind. But wave power remains the poor relation of the renewable energy sector due to the difficulties of cheaply operating machinery in the harsh marine environment. The world's first commercial wave farm only began operating last year, off the northern coast of Portugal. Read Article on Sea 'snake' generates electricity with every wave » Jumping robot to bounce into military service8 May 2009 (newscientist.com)HOPPING robots may soon find a role in the American military. Sandia National Laboratories' prototype Urban Hopper can leap 8 metres vertically to clear walls or fences. Now robot maker Boston Dynamics has been given the job of producing a military version with a bit more self-control. The programme is funded by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which says it wants the hopper for urban reconnaissance and intelligence gathering - although it admits it could also be fitted with a raft of weapons. Read Article on Jumping robot to bounce into military service » For Sale: Slightly Used Spacesuit, $500K OBO14 April 2009 (wired.com) On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union became the first country to launch anything into space. The event set off a space race that eventually landed humans on the moon and encircled the Earth with satellites. But a second, smaller race began at the same time. A small, dedicated group of fans began to find, collect and authenticate the physical objects associated with man's out-of-this-world journeys. Now there is a bustling business in the detritus of space flight. Several auctioneers host major sales during the spring where hundreds of pieces can be sold for between a few hundred bucks and a few hundred thousand. Starting April 16, Regency-Superior will host a four-day auction featuring an ultra-rare spacesuit used for testing in the Gemini program (see video) along with dozens of other rare items, photographs and space hardware. Read Article on For Sale: Slightly Used Spacesuit, $500K OBO» Resin replaces ITO in latest flexible OLED prototype10 April 2009 (engadget.com) Make no mistake, wrapping your mind around the build of an OLED panel is mighty tough to do. Without getting you mired in technobabble, let's just say that indium tin oxide (ITO) has generally been a mainstay in every single OLED that was produced commercially. Read Article on Resin replaces ITO in latest flexible OLED prototype» CompUSA Comes Back From the Dead10 April 2009 (wired.com) About three months ago, Loretta Alkalay, a retired Florida resident, wanted to get a new HDTV. So she decided to give the CompUSA near her home a try. Yes, CompUSA. The once-bankrupt electronics retailer is making a comeback, with about 30 new CompUSA stores nationwide and a new strategy that includes aggressive prices, remodeled stores, improved lighting and in-store web access for comparison shopping. "We have invented this idea of retail 2.0," says Gilbert Fiorentino, chief executive of the Technology Products Group at Systemax, now parent company of CompUSA. Fiorentino is also the founder of Tiger Direct, a web only electronics retailer and another subsidiary of Systemax. "Every screen in every CompUSA store is now connected to the internet and making buying a richer experience for customers," he says. Read Article on Comp USA Comes Back From the Dead» Secret Law of Flying Could Inspire Better Robots10 April 2009 (wired.com) A unifying theory of winged locomotion could explain the magical mid-air maneuvers of birds and insects, and guide the design of flying robots. Using high-speed video, biologists modeled how hummingbirds and hawkmoths use asymmetrical flapping to make slow, mid-air turns. The model predicted how five other flyers turned at full speed, hinting at a universal turning technique for flying creatures. "It's basically an exponential damping system," said Ty Hedrick, a University of North Carolina animal aerodynamics expert. "The strength of braking increases in proportion to speed." Though scientists understand the principles underlying many flight-enhancing physiologies, from birds' hollow bones to dragonflies' flexible wings, the biomechanics of turning was in many ways a mystery. Read Article on Secret Law of Flying Could Inspire Better Robots» Can Solar Power Resurrect the Housing Market?10 April 2009 (sciam.com) A Florida developer unveiled plans today to build the nation's first solar-powered city – a cluster of homes, offices and factories less than 20 miles from Fort Myers on the Gulf Coast. "Babcock Ranch" would be built on 17,000 acres in Charlotte and Lee counties, with more than half of the land set aside for nature preserves, agriculture and other open space. Florida Power & Light Co. would build a 75-megawatt solar photovoltaic array to supply electricity to the development's 6 million square feet of residential, industrial and retail buildings. Read Article on Can Solar Power Resurrect the Housing Market?» Dissenter on Warming Expands His Campaign10 April 2009 (nytimes.com) WASHINGTON — Marc Morano does not think global warming is anything to worry about, and he brags about his confrontations with those who do. For example, Mr. Morano said he once spotted former Vice President Al Gore on an airplane returning from a climate conference in Bali. Mr. Gore was posing for photos with well-wishers, and Mr. Morano said he had asked if he, too, could have his picture taken with Mr. Gore. Read Article on Dissenter on Warming Expands His Campaign » Biomimetic Robotics10 April 2009 (discovery.com) Mother Nature's animal factory regularly cranks out sophisticated living machines designed to function in fascinating ways. So it's no surprise that researchers look to nature for inspiration when designing robots. The resulting machines that blend biology with computer science are called biomimetic robots. And it's not just their uncanny resemblance to living creatures that makes them special. These bots are designed to fly, swim, climb, crawl and walk into places that humans can't. Discovery Tech got in touch with university biorobotics labs from around the world, asking them to send us photos of their bio-inspired robots. Here are 10 of our favs. Read Article on Biomimetic Robotics» Inventor turns cardboard boxes into eco-friendly oven10 April 2009 (cnn.com) When Jon Bohmer sat down with his two little girls for a simple project they could work on together, he didn't realize they'd hit upon a solution to one of the world's biggest problems for just $5: A solar-powered oven. The ingeniously simple design uses two cardboard boxes, one inside the other, and an acrylic cover that lets in the sun's rays and traps them. Black paint on the inner box, and silver foil on the outer one, help concentrate the heat. The trapped rays make the inside hot enough to cook casseroles, bake bread and boil water. Read Article on Inventor turns cardboard boxes into eco-friendly oven» Radiopaq launches custom tuned earphones to single our your audio10 April 2009 (engadget.com) There's a big difference between giving people choices and giving people a choice, and while Sleek Audio did the smart thing by doing the former, Radiopaq is carelessly banking on the latter to still go over well. Rather than producing a set of earbuds with customizable acoustics to fit whatever genre you find yourself into, Radiopaq's custom tuned earphones take that personalization away from the end-user. Read Article on Radiopaq launches custom tuned earphones to single our your audio» Hacking the planet: The only climate solution left?9 April 2009 (newscientist.com) Update: John Holdren, the chief scientific adviser to Barack Obama, has said drastic measures to tackle climate change using massive technological measures should be considered. Holdren's statement is a "personal opinion", he says, but this is the strongest statement yet from within the Obama administration that geoengineering is being taken seriously. As we reported earlier in the year, the proposal has now moved into mainstream scientific and political thought. IN A room in London late last year, a group of British politicians were grilling a selection of climate scientists on geoengineering - the notion that to save the planet from climate change, we must artificially tweak its thermostat by firing fine dust into the atmosphere to deflect the sun's rays, for instance, or perhaps even by launching clouds of mirrors into space. Surely the scientists gave such a heretical idea short shrift. After all, messing with the climate is exactly what got us into such trouble in the first place. The politicians on the committee certainly seemed to believe so. "It is not sensible, is it? It is not a serious suggestion?" Read Article on Hacking the planet: The only climate solution left? » Science's most powerful computer tackles first questions9 April 2009 (newscientist.com) In cult sci-fi tale Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the most powerful computer in the universe was charged with finding the answer to life, the universe, and everything. In the real world, a newly built supercomputer that is the most powerful ever dedicated to science will be tackling questions about climate change, supernovas, and the structure of water. The projects were chosen in a peer-reviewed process designed to get the computer producing useful science even during the period when its performance is still being fine-tuned by engineers. Jaguar is located at the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS), part of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, and has a peak operating performance of 1.64 petaflops, meaning it can perform more than a million billion mathematical operations every second. Read Article on Science's most powerful computer tackles first questions » Storing the Carbon in Fossil Fuels Where It Came from: Deep Underground9 April 2009 (sciam.com) Editor's Note: This is the third in a series of five features on carbon capture and storage, running daily from April 6 to April 10, 2009. For more than a decade, Norwegian oil company Statoil Hydro has been stripping climate change–causing carbon dioxide (CO2) from natural gas in its Sleipner West field and burying it beneath the seabed rather than venting it into the atmosphere. The company estimates that since 1996 it has stored more than 10 million-plus metric tons of CO2 some 3,300 feet (1,000 meters) down in the sandstone formation from which it came—and all of it has stayed put, which means storage may be the simplest part of the carbon capture and storage (CCS) challenge. Read Article on Storing the Carbon in Fossil Fuels Where It Came from: Deep Underground» Pakistan to America: Give Us the Killer Drones9 April 2009 (wired.com) When last we left America's drone war over Pakistan, the local government seemed resigned to idea of the United Sstates launching its unmanned air force from Pakistani soil, on targets within Pakistan, without Islamabad's permission. All the ministers asked was that America respect their "red line" -- and keep U.S. ground forces out of their country. But the red line may have suddenly shifted, from human troops to robots in the sky. In a meeting yesterday with U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Michael Mullen, top Pakistani officials allegedly demanded that America stop the unmanned attacks and "shift the drone technology and authority to the Pakistan Army," according to Pakistan's Dawn newspaper. "We did talk about drones and let me be very frank, there is a gap," Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi tells Reuters. Read Article on Pakistan to America: Give Us the Killer Drones»
How to Map Neural Circuits With an Electron Microscope9 April 2009 (wired.com) Coders and neuroscientists have teamed up to make a 20-terabyte map of every cell in the back of a rabbit's eye. By comparing healthy samples with pictures of damaged retinas, these researchers can make sense of the diseases that cause blindness, and perhaps find ways to repair injured eyes. Read Article on How to Map Neural Circuits With an Electron Microscope» High-Tech Weights for Space Workout9 April 2009 (wired.com) When space-age technology can't keep astronaut muscles from withering, there's only one thing left for NASA to do: upgrade. The Advanced Resistance Exercise Device, or aRED, was installed two months ago inside the International Space Station. Smaller and more powerful than any earthly all-in-one gym set, aRED is expected to provide astronauts with much-needed muscle work. "When we think about the space environment, you have to reset the baseline," said Scott Trappe, director of Ball State University's Human Performance Laboratory. "On Earth, it's hypertrophy: 'How big can I get my muscles?' In space, it's 'How can I protect what I have? Read Article on High-Tech Weights for Space Workout»
Eye-Fi's 4GB WiFi SDHC cards start to ship out9 April 2009 (engadget.com) Nah, Eye-Fi's latest Secure Digital cards still aren't nearly as capacious (nor as cheap) as other alternatives on the market, but good luck getting that free-after-rebate 8GB SDHC card from IAWANNA Corp. to upload images via a wireless hotspot. Read Article on Eye-Fi's 4GB WiFi SDHC cards start to ship out» Gold Bullion Wireless Mouse only looks like a million bucks9 April 2009 (iwantoneofthose.com) It seems only right that computer mice, which were once such brick-like tools should, in these 'interesting times' return to being bricks again. Though of course this particular brick is now wireless and looks satisfyingly like a huge hunk of gold bullion. Whether you're scanning plummeting share prices on-line or looking for a cheap washing machine on e-bay, this high tech wireless mouse will enrich your experience. You can charge it by plugging it into a USB port, so you don't have yet another gadget needing batteries. It's a great big bling thing! Read Article on Gold Bullion Wireless Mouse only looks like a million bucks» Top US science adviser on life after Bush8 April 2009 (newscientist.com) You worked with Bill Clinton, and now Barack Obama. What about the man who came between them, George W. Bush? It was not a good time for science, but it wasn't an unmitigated disaster. I would say two things that are often forgotten. To his credit Bush completed the doubling of the budget for the National Institutes of Health. And he did good things for global health. But there were many other things that hurt science and undermined the science advisory process. However, that era is over. We need to be clear about the fact that damage has been done, and we need to repair that damage and look ahead. Read Article on Top US science adviser on life after Bush » Monster space telescope prepares for launch8 April 2009 (newscientist.com) |
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The researchers, led by UW-Madison geologist and crystal specialist Huifang Xu, grew nanocrystals of two common crystals, zinc oxide and barium titanate, and placed them in water. When pulsed with ultrasonic vibrations, the nanofibers flexed and catalyzed a chemical reaction to split the water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen.
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We have tended to change alot & alot more to come.
Right after Reading this article my next thought was a flying horse which we have only read in fairy tales!