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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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Clean Tech's Hot New Tool
Electron-beam emitters that are one-hundreth the size and cost of conventional electron emitters could usher in a wide array of new uses for the devices that could dramatically cut the energy use of industrial processes. Advanced Electron Beams (AEB), a Wilmington, MA, startup, has developed a small …
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AMD Radeon HD 5770 Hits Streets Early
Even though AMD hasn't officially launched its Radeon HD 5770 yet, the cards have made their way onto e-tailers such as Newegg. Essentially, Newegg has broken the NDA on the card, which is suppose to lift quite soon. The card is a follow-up to the previously--and recently--launched Radeon HD 5870. C …
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Live Recordings of Cell Communication
A new advanced method for nano-scale imaging of vesicle-fusion could add to our understanding of diseases of the nervous system and viral infections. In the long term, this could be useful in developing a cure for neurological diseases and mental disorders (e.g. schizophrenia, depression, Parkinson' …
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Child's Play With Kitten Scanner
The Kitten Scanner, placed in the hospital waiting room, helps replace the fear experienced by a child undergoing a medical CAT scan with understanding. It is a scaled version of the CAT scan that the child will be confronted with during the examination and includes a TV screen and toys - through pl …
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Bioliq Affordable Biofuel
Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Karlsruhe, Germany have developed a biofuel based on wood and straw that could sell for as little as 0.50 Euros per liter or 2.49 dollars per gallon, a price on par with the price of gasoline in the United States. The product is generated by h …
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The Origin Of Life: Chemistry + Biology
This self-reproduction is a fundamental aspect of what we call "life". And once there was life, a new set of rules took over - the laws of natural selection. Life became matter that evolved as a result of environmental pressures - matter that changed randomly. But those changes endure …
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GoblinAero - A Hybrid Tricycle
Goblin Motors, based in Arizona, USA, has introduced a new tricycle, named ��GoblinAero'. Thanks to the vehicle's hybrid engine - utilizing both electric power and traditional gas - it enables drivers to travel ecologically, consuming only 150 miles per gallon.
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Lightspeed Optical Communications
Researchers at the US Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, the Office of Naval Research, and Torrey Pines Logic, Inc. of San Diego, California have been developing technology that permits voice, video, and data transmission via optical devices. The technology can easily be incorporated int …
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17-Key Mouse Designed for Gamers
The USA-based company Razer has recently introduced the Razer Naga, a 17-key mouse specially designed for gamers. The mouse offers full customization of each key and was specially made for massive multiplayer online games (MMOG), which gained popularity during the last couple of years.
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