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First DirectX 11 Benchmark Demo Released
Unigine Corp. is claiming that its Heaven demo--based on the company's proprietary Unigine engine--is the first DirectX 11-specific benchmark. This isn't the company's first benchmark entry: the Sanctuary and Tropics demos are already used in the field to test GPU capabilities. The latest demo is cu …
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Generating Power from Pavement
Researchers at Novotech, Inc. of Acton, Massachusetts and two Massachusetts universities are developing a method to channel heat from asphalt and other paving materials into usable power. In addition to the power directly generated by the asphalt, this process would also lower the rate of buckling i …
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Motorola Releases Droid Specs, Photos Online
Motorola on Thursday night released the full specifications and a photo gallery of the highly-awaited Droid phone on their public Web site, pre-empting the anticipated October 28 announcement of Verizon Wireless's first Android smartphone. According to the Motorola site, which was first noticed by t …
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Dell Selling Multi-Touch LCD for Windows 7
Dell finally brought its multi-touch monitor here to the States after specs prematurely appeared online earlier this week. The SX2210T is the company's first dedicated multi-touch LCD display, and supports either one finer or two. The display is also compatible with Windows 7 Home Premium and above. …
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Universal Phone Charger Approved
A new mobile phone charger that will work with any handset has been approved by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a United Nations body. Industry body the GSMA says that 51,000 tonnes of redundant chargers are generated each year. Currently most chargers are product or brand specific, …
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ErockIT: 50 mph Electric Motorcycle
The ErockIT is more a motorcycle than a bike, and indeed, it might be one of today's quickest forms of inner city transport. The whole thing weighs just 110 kilograms and with over 45lb/ft of torque and 13bhp, it can top 50mph.
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Speaking Piano
Pretty amazing, how all of a sudden the words of the Declaration become understandable to a European Environmental Criminal Court. Wien Modern was one out of ten cultural institutions who asked for an artistic contribution to the event in Palazzo Ducale in Venice. The ambitious goal was to make this …
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Grimpoteuthis the 'Dumbo Octopus'
Grimpoteuthis are also known as the "Dumbo Octopus",and is a benthic mollusc found on the ocean floor at depths of 3000-4000 meters. Dumbo octopuses, which can grow to up to 20 centimeters, are soft-bodied or semi- gelatinous octopuses with a pair of fins located on their mantle and webbing between …
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Heathrow Travellers Will Use Robot Pods
Driverless, battery-powered pod-cars will soon zip passengers around part of London's Heathrow Airport. The manufacturers of the Ultra Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) system say it is the world's first public transport to balance the convenience of a taxi with the efficiency of a bus or light rail &nda …
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Head-up Displays go Holographic
In the last few years, head-up displays (HUDs), which project information onto the driver's view of the road, have started appearing in a few high-end cars. But a more compact kind of projection device, small enough to fit inside a rearview mirror, could see this kind of display more widely deployed …
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The Next Generation of Stethoscopes
3M Solutions has recently unveiled the Littmann Electronic Stethoscope, Model 3100, an innovative, wireless medical accessory that utilizes Bluetooth communication in order to provide medical caregivers an easier method to auscultate.
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BIXI Public Bike System Concept
BIXI was created from a clean sheet with the intention of marrying the practical with the aesthetic. World-renowned industrial designer Michel Dallaire was entrusted with the design of the physical components. The bikes themselves feature clean lines and a sleek look that according to the creators i …
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3D Animation: Nearsightedness
This medical animation depicts a LASIK procedure to correct near sightedness (myopia) of the eye. LASIK stands for Laser-Assisted in Situ Keratomileusis and is a procedure that permanently changes the shape of the cornea, the clear covering over the front of the eye. (Source: 3D Animation)
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Labs-on-a-Chip That You Can Shrink To Fit
INTEL's latest microchip technology has created transistors 22 nanometres wide - a mere 200 times the width of a hydrogen molecule. Carving such tiny features is devilishly difficult and expensive, but in another realm of microchips altogether, something odd is happening: chips are being made on an …
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Microsoft Recovers Sidekick Data
Microsoft says it has now recovered the personal data lost when its Sidekick servers suffered an outage on 13 October. The online service backs up contacts, photos, calendar appointments and other personal data stored on the mobile phones of Sidekick T Mobile customers. Microsoft Corporate Vice Pres …
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Apple: People Will Upgrade to Macs, Not Win7
Apple sees the release of Windows 7 as an opportunity to snatch even more users over to the Mac camp. "It presents a very good opportunity for us," says Philip W. Schiller, Apple's senior vice-president for marketing, in a BusinessWeek report. Schiller reasons that those running Windows XP machines …
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DARPA's New High Resolution Camera
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is developing a camera with unprecedented resolution, of 2.3-gigapixel. The new camera should be able to create super-wide aerial photos, and is built primarily for surveillance purposes, as part of the Autonomous Real-time Ground Ubiquitous Surv …
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Acer Unveils Android and Windows 7 Netbook
Acer has unveiled an Aspire netbook that dual boots Google Android and Windows 7. "Why are we introducing a dual OS?" asked Jim Wong, senior corporate vice president of Acer at the launch event in London. "The �net' [in netbook] means the mobile internet, and [introducing] Android into the netbook c …
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Atlantis is on the Move
Space shuttle Atlantis began its move from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 6:38 a.m. EDT. The 3.4-mile journey of the crawler-transporter with the shuttle stacked on top is expected to take about six hours. At NASA's Johnson Space Center i …
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'Darwin's Wing' Fills Evolution Gap
It may seem as unlikely as a jackalope, but this newfound pterosaur "hodgepodge" is the real deal, paleontologists say. Scientists at the U.K.'s University of Leicester initially saw images of the flying reptile fossils earlier this year, and "our first thought was, Oh dear, it looks like a fake," s …
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