November 10, 2008 - Technology News
The checkered history of automation
"If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker” – attributed to Albert Einstein after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. One law ...
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October 23, 2008 - Technology News
The world's most advanced electron microscope
Microscopes have been an integral tool for scientists for hundreds of years, opening up the microscopic world that surrounds us and ...
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October 21, 2008 - Technology News
Samsung demontrates color carbon nanotube-based electrophoretic display
Electronic paper is one of those technologies that offers obvious benefits. It provides highly visible displays in direct sunlight due ...
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September 22, 2008 - Technology News
Scientists lay foundations for exascale computing
Having crashed through the petaflop barrier of a thousand trillion calculations per second back in June, scientists are continuing work ...
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August 25, 2008 - Technology News
Artificial Photosynthesis provides clean, cheap Hydrogen
An international team of researchers led by Monash University in Australia has used manganesehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manganese , a ...
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August 21, 2008 - Technology News
Electrical rubber could be used as synthetic skin for robots
August 20, 2008 Scientists at the University of Tokyo have created a material with the texture and flexibility of rubber but possessing ...
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August 20, 2008 - Technology News
BenQ's environmentally friendly widescreen LCDs
August 19, 2008 Two new 19” LCD monitors from BenQ replace the traditional four-lamp apparatus with two without affecting the ...
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July 10, 2008 - Technology News
Mobile Internet reaching critical mass
A combination of device availability, network speeds, content availability and consumer interest has lead to mobile Internet use ...
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July 8, 2008 - Technology News
RIM to release FlipBerry?
Rumors of a low cost BlackBerry clamshell phone have been doing the rounds for a while now and appear to have reached critical mass. According ...
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July 7, 2008 - Technology News
Holy Cow – the Batcycle becomes the Batpod
July 5, 2008 Comic book hero Batman has been with us for 70 years next year, becoming one of the most popular fictional characters of all ...
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June 25, 2008 - Technology News
Heel-strike generators to harness pedestrian power
Peak oil is proving a great motivator for the exploration of radical alternative energy ideas and ongoing developments show that we haven’t ...
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June 19, 2008 - Technology News
The Mundaneum – the analog internet
Historians typically trace the origins of the World Wide Web through a lineage of Anglo-American nventorshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ ...
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June 12, 2008 - Technology News
225mph Stealth supercar: Brabus Bullit Black Arrow
German auto-performance specialist Brabus has again pushed the envelope with its latest creation - the wickedly styled Bullit Black Arrow. ...
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May 20, 2008 - Technology News
Flexible, lightweight, 1-millimeter thick, 125-inch plasma display
There’s at least one reason to look forward to the InfoComm 2008 conference in Las Vegas this June with next-generation large-screen ...
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May 7, 2008 - Technology News
A flatter flatscreen: LG's PG60 Plasma TV
Once an afterthought in terms of interior design, televisions have become an aesthetic centerpiece in many new homes and as a result, ...
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May 5, 2008 - Technology News
Odysseus: Aurora's radical, unlimited endurance, solar powered aircraft
Aurora Flight Sciences has revealed the design of the aircraft it hopes will achieve the ambitious goals set out in DARPA's ambitious Vulture ...
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April 7, 2008 - Technology News
World's smallest hi-def camera head from Toshiba
Toshiba Imaging has launched the world’s smallest HD camera head, measuring just 1.6 inches and weighing only 2.3 oz. It is envisaged ...
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March 27, 2008 - Technology News
Modu: World’s lightest phone underpins new multimedia platform
The diminutive modu has taken the title of "World's lightest mobile phone" with the 40.1 g (1.41 oz) handset's claim made official by ...
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February 29, 2008 - Technology News
Zero Pollution compressed Air Car set for U.S. launch in 2010
The Zero-Pollution MDI Air Car, invented in France and licensed by Tata Motors in India, is coming to American shores. Zero Pollution Motors ...
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February 26, 2008 - Technology News
Mercedes-Benz bionic car: automotive design meets modern art
One of the stand-out automotive design concepts from back in 2005 has re-emerged in the guise of modern art. With a highly-aerodynamic design ...
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January 29, 2008 - Technology News
Energy Island: unlocking the potential of the ocean as a renewable power source
While governments and corporations were exploring petroleum as a fuel source in the 19th century, Jacques Arsene d’Arsonval proposed ...
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January 23, 2008 - Technology News
3M announces micro-projector for mobile devices
Miniature projection modules are seen as the answer to the problem of combining "big-screen" convenience with ever shrinking mobile device ...
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January 23, 2008 - Technology News
Jerkstopper prevents AC connector damage
The weakest link in the hardware chain bringing charge to you laptop is usually the power cord input - anyone who has ever damaged the ...
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January 3, 2008 - Industry News
Personal Robot industry to grow to $15 Billion by 2015
A new study by ABI Research predicts that the personal robotics market will be worth $15 billion by 2015. The report examines the consumer ...
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December 14, 2007 - Technology News
Breakthrough lithium battery charges to 90% in just 5 minutes
Toshiba have stunned the world with their announcement of what's pretty much the holy grail in Lithium battery technology – the Super Charge ...
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