2008-10-31

The HP Mini 1000 Netbook

HP Launches New Mini 1000 Netbook Line

Hewlett Packard has unveiled its new Mini 1000 netbooks, featuring Atom processors, a slim design, BrightView LCD displays...and one case design from Vivienne Tam.

Hewlett Packard has expanded its line of Atom-powered netbook offerings with the new Mini 1000, a sleek new nettop that weights less than two pounds, is less than an inch thick, and should appeal both to folks who can't bear to be offline as well as fashion-conscious women.

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The HP Mini 1000 is the perfect on-the-go companion for the ultra-mobile consumer. Stay connected with more people, in more places. Our HP Mini is available with an 8.9" or 10.2" diagonal display, weighs only 2.25 lb., and has a nearly full sized keyboard. Personal computing just got a whole lot smaller.

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HP Mini 1000

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HP Mini 1000 Review

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HP Mini 1000 (10-Inch, Windows XP)

Design

Superior Netbook Keyboard

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Ports

Glossy Screen, Decent Audio

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Solid Performance, Graphics

Wi-Fi and Battery Life

2008-10-30

Google Street View Italy

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Google Street View Italy Released - October 29th

I've been traveling this evening, or I would have reported sooner: Quick on the heels of France and Spain, now Italy gets some Street View coverage as well. Included locations are: Milan, Florence, Rome and Lake Como. That's essentially three new countries to get notable Street View coverage in two weeks. Reports came in from Google Maps Mania, Digital Earth Blog and Google Blogoscoped, and I got an E-mail from GEB reader 'Munden' as well.

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The new locations with Street View are Milan, Florence, Rome and Lake Como.

Street Cities - Free Mapping and Street View Tools

Related:
Google Earth Blog: Google Street View Italy Released - October 29th
Google Street View Italy Live, Too
Google Maps Mania: Street View Comes to Italy
Street/Map Control - StreetCities.com - Google Street View Resources - Embeddable Street View and Google Earth Control
Using Map Features - Google Earth User Guide
Google Street View - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2008-10-29

Mitsubishi's MMR25 Rally Racer

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Mitsubishi's LA Design Challenge Entry Reveals MMR25, Rally Racer Of The Future

Each year the LA Auto Show pits the best of the best of designers from the automakers to try and design some creative looks at our automotive future. Last year, it was all about "green," but this year, the project's called Motorsport 2025, and it's designed to show off what the race car of 2025 will look like.

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Mitsubishi breaks from convention and introduces the MMR25.

While the look is shocking, the multi-terrain, omnidirectional wheels consist of eight independently-controlled motors, allowing for “8 x 4” wheel drive so that the car can be driven forward while pointing in any direction. The MMR25 drives sideways into a corner and points the nose of the car outwards before even reaching the apex of the curve while driving sideways or backwards.

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2008-10-28

Artificial Heart Ready for Implantation

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'Full' artificial heart implant

Scientists say they have a working prototype of a fully artificial heart ready for implanting in humans.

The device beats almost exactly like the real thing using electronic sensors to regulate heart rate and blood flow.

Developers Carmat now need approval from the French authorities before pushing ahead with clinical trials.

But heart experts warned it was still early days as previous attempts to create a fully artificial heart had failed during human testing.

I couldn't stand seeing young, active people dying aged 40 from massive heart attacks

Professor Alain Carpentier

Only properly conducted clinical trials will establish whether this version will live up to the claims made by its manufacturers

Peter Weissberg of the British Heart Foundation

The device is designed to be as similar as possible to the human heart

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Leading heart transplant specialist Alain Carpentier presents a cardiac valve used to design a fully implantable artificial heart
Photo: Patrick Kovarik/AFP/Getty Images

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2008-10-27

Xeros - Waterless Washing Machine

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Spin dry: The washing machine that needs just one cup of water

A washing machine that uses only a cup of water to carry out a full wash, leaving clothes virtually dry, has been developed by British inventors.

Researchers say the technology, which uses less than 2 per cent of the water and energy of a conventional machine, could save billions of litres of water each year.

The machine, which has been created by academics at Leeds University, works by using thousands of plastic chips - each about half a centimetre in size - to absorb and remove dirt.

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Xeros Ltd an alternative to traditional aqueous-based domestic laundering systems as well as solvent-based commercial garment cleaning technologies.

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Virtually waterless washing machine heralds cleaning revolution

2008-10-26

Microbial fuel cells

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Directory:Penn State Microbial Fuel Cells Produce Hydrogen from Waste Water

Aka : "BioElectrochemically Assisted Microbial Reactor" (BEAMR)

Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) represent a completely new method of renewable energy recovery: the direct conversion of organic matter (e.g. sewage waste) to electricity using bacteria. The method is highly efficient and produces a high volume of hydrogen.

Researchers have designed a microbial electrolysis cell in which bacteria break up acetic acid (a product of plant waste fermentation) to produce hydrogen gas with a very small electrical input from an outside source. Hydrogen can then be used for fuel cells or as a fuel additive in vehicles that now run on natural gas.
Credit: Zina Deretsky, National Science Foundation.

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Hydrogen energy research has sprung to the forefront at Penn State University, where more than a hundred researchers are fully involved in developing new hydrogen energy and hydrogen fuel cell technologies.

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Microbial Fuel Cells for Electricity Generation

Microbial fuel cell research involves the direct conversion of organic matter to electricity using bacteria. This new form of renewable energy recovery may be instituted into existing wastewater treatment plants to help generate the electricity used during water treatment, which consumes 5% of all electricity generated in the USA. Current research focuses on developing MFC's that use can use bacteria to both produce electricity and effectively clean wastewater, and improving methods to increase power generation.

2008-10-25

The Bloodhound SSC 1,000-mph Car

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scientific american

Speed racer: Jet- and- rocket- powered 1,000-mph car ready to go

More than a decade after driving their jet-powered Thrust SSC (for super sonic car) an ear-popping 763 miles (1,228 kilometers) per hour, a team of British engineers and pilots has set its sites on a new record: to build a car by 2011 that can travel faster than 1,000 miles (1,610 kilometers) per hour, BBC News reports. The team has already christened its new super sonic vehicle--which will be powered by a rocket bolted to a Eurofighter Typhoon jet engine--the Bloodhound SSC.

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Bloodhound rocket car sniffs out 1,000-mph land speed record

LONDON, England (CNN) -- Speed enthusiasts hope to build a rocket car that can go faster than a bullet from a handgun -- and break the world land speed record.

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Education and engagement

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Breaking the record

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The Bloodhound image library

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Bloodhound SSC 1000+mph car!

2008-10-23

Selectively Deleting Memories

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Selectively Deleting Memories

Research in mice suggests that it might be possible to delete specific painful memories.

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"While memories are great teachers and obviously crucial for survival and adaptation, selectively removing incapacitating memories, such as traumatic war memories or an unwanted fear, could help many people live better lives," says Dr. Joe Z. Tsien, brain scientist and co-director of the Brain & Behavior Discovery Institute at the Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine. (Credit: Image courtesy of Medical College of Georgia)

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Laboratory of Systems Neurobiology (Joe Z. Tsien)

Genetic and Genomic analyses of memory processes

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Memory is generally separated into four different stages: acquisition, consolidation, storage and retrieval. Earlier research identified specific molecules that appear to play a role in the various phases of the memory process.

But Tsien said his team found a way to quickly manipulate the activity of the "memory molecule," the protein CaMKII (calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II) that plays a key role in brain cell communication, and so is linked to many aspects of learning and memory.

How the research was done
Researchers developed a "chemical genetic strategy," which made it possible to manipulate the protein in transgenic mice bred to overproduce the molecule.

"Using this technique, we examined the manipulation of transgenic CaMKII activity on the retrieval of short-term and long-term fear memories and novel object recognition memory" in transgenic mice, Tsien said.

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GMO Mice Shed Light on Learning, Memory

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Subregion- and Cell TypeRestricted Gene Knockout in Mouse Brain

2008-10-22

StarCAVE A 3-D Virtual Reality Environment

The StarCAVE,developed at UC San Diego, is a virtual reality (VR) room where scientific models and animations are projected in stereo on 360-degree screens surrounding the viewer, and onto the floor as well.

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3-D virtual reality environment developed at UC San Diego helps scientists innovate

Its name sounds like something out of science fiction, but the
StarCAVE at the University of California, San Diego is now a science
fact. The virtual-reality environment allows groups of scientists to
venture into worlds as small as nanoparticles and as big as the cosmos
– permitting new insights that could fuel discoveries in many fields.
Early users of the StarCAVE include UC San Diego researchers in
biomedicine, neuroscience, structural engineering, archaeology, earth
science, genomics, art history and other disciplines.

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Calit2 researchers explore proteins in 3D from the Protein Data Bank, displayed inside the StarCAVE.

Calit2 project scientist Jurgen Schulze navigates "virtually" the first floor of a computer model of Calit2's headquarters building at UC San Diego.

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Future in Review 2008 -Calit2 StarCave Tour

2008-10-20

The ThinLinX $100 Thin Client Computer

Using “cloud computing” technology, and processing and data storage handled by remote servers in a separate location two Australians have developed computers, which cost $US100 and are tiny, even compared to laptops.

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Aussie couple take on computing giants

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Time to Ditch Your PC for a Hot-E?

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Two Australians are taking on the computer giants by developing a range of PCs that fit into a user’s palm.

John Nicholls and his wife Jeanne from the Sunshine Coast have developed “Hot-E” computers, which cost $US100 and are tiny, even compared to laptops.

Using “cloud computing” technology, the PCs use processing and data storage handled by remote servers in a separate location. The couple’s company, ThinLinX, has spent five years developing the device.

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Thin Clients

What is Thin client Computing?

Thin Clients are devices that receive software and data from network servers. The central storage and automated distribution of data and applications dramatically reduces costs and eases manageability. It also allows users to access the same set of data and applications from anywhere through multiple devices.

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Hewlett-Packard’s version of a so-called thin client and monitor, top, and the Hot-E device from ThinLinX, above.

2008-10-19

Liquavista ColorBright Display Technology

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Liquavista Introduces Product Transforming Ambient Light Displays

Cambridge UK, October 16th, 2008 - Liquavista today launched Liquavista ColorBright, the company's first display platform built using its patented electrowetting technology. Targeted at segment-driven display applications including watches and mobile phone secondary displays, its unique combination of outstanding brightness in natural light and vivid color range offers new legibility and design freedom to creators of design-led electronic products.

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ColorBright

Key Facts

Outstanding brightness in natural light

Vivid color range

Excellent legibility and design freedom

Both standard or custom designs

Range of innovative viewing features

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What is Electrowetting?

Key Facts

Uses natural forces and simple materials

Produce a variety of display architectures

Low power, fast switching for mobile video

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Electrowetting Benefits

Key Facts

Indoor and outdoor usability

Vivid colors and wide viewing angle

Video speed

Power savings

ColorBright | Products | LiquavistaManufacturing compatibility

2008-10-18

Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) -- Making the Invisible Visible

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008 is shared by Osamu Shimomura, Woods Hole, Martin Chalfie, and Roger Y. Tsien for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP.
The Academy noted that "this protein has become one of the most important tools used in contemporary bioscience. With the aid of GFP, researchers have developed ways to watch processes that were previously invisible, such as the development of nerve cells in the brain or how cancer cells spread."

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Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) has existed for more than one hundred and sixty million years in one species of jellyfish, Aequorea victoria. The protein is found in the photoorgans of Aequorea,

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In 1994 GFP was cloned. Now GFP is found in laboratories all over the world where it is used in every conceivable plant and animal. Flatworms, algae, E. coli and pigs have all been made to fluoresce with GFP.

The importance of GFP was recognized in 2008 when the Nobel Committee awarded Osamu Shimomura, Marty Chalfie and Roger Tsien the Chemistry Nobel Prize
"for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP".

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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008

Glowing proteins – a guiding star for biochemistry

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A Green Light for Biology -- Making the Invisible Visible

The protein, found in jellyfish helps researchers track substances of all kinds, in real time, and show how they mark cells, maintain them and function in concert with other cells.

2008-10-17

The DARPA Submersible Aircraft

The DARPA Submersible Aircraft research project is focused on making a a vehicle that can fly in the air and dive straight into the water, becoming a submarine.

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Researchers want a submersible airplane

This sounds like something straight out of a James Bond movie but no, it's real and it's your government: Those way out engineers at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) want to build an aircraft that's as capable of zipping through the sky as it is underwater.

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Submersible Aircraft
Solicitation Number: DARPA-BAA-09-06
Agency: Other Defense Agencies
Office: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Location: Contracts Management Office

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Interestingly there was a patent issued in 2007 to Gennady Ploshkin, for a disc-shaped aircraft that could take off like a helicopter and submerge like a sub. There have been other sub-plane designs as well. Probably the most famous flying sub was in the TV show Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Flying Sub for FS 2004Pt II

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Underwater Video RC Submarine - Flying Submarine

2008-10-15

Exoskeletons to Rent in Japan

Mass Production

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Cyberdyne To Start Mass-producing Exoskeletons
For $2,000 a month, you can be Iron Man too

Since the days of The Centurions, we have yearned for robotic exoskeletons that will enhance our abilities beyond our wildest dreams. That day is finally here. Professor Yoshiyuki Sankai of Tsukuba University has developed a Hybrid Assistive Limb (HAL) that will let you augment your strength to up to twice your natural abilities.

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The suit isn't up for sale, but will be rented out for around $2,000 (Rs 96,000) a month in Japan. There will also be a one-legged version, which will cost less, but also be less fun.

HAL (Hybrid Assistive Limb)

Clipped from: What's HAL(Hybrid Assistive Limb)? - CYBERDYNE Robot Suit HAL is a cyborg-type robot that can expand and improve physical capability.

Robot Suit HAL is a cyborg-type robot that can expand and improve physical capability.

HAL is expected to be applied in various fields such as rehabilitation support and physical training support in medical field, ADL support for disabled people, heavy labour support at factories, and rescue support at disaster sites, as well as in the entertainment field.

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A: HAL is primarily developed to upgrade the existing physical capabilities of the human body.
Theoretically speaking, HAL has many other applications. Currently HAL is used by people with weakened muscles and by some people with disabilities due to stroke and/or spinal cord injury.

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2008-10-13

The Next NASA Mars Rover

U.S. space administration NASA has revealed an ambitious plan to launch a new Mars rover in 2009, the Mars Science Laboratory, and advanced robotic vehicle, able to make decisions and avoid hazards on its own.

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Nasa committed to Mars rover plan

Nasa is pushing ahead with plans to launch its next Mars mission in 2009, but acknowledges that extra funds are required to make it happen.

The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) will be the biggest planetary rover yet; it will be the size of a Mini Cooper.

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Mars Science Laboratory - Next NASA Rover

Scheduled to launch in the fall of 2009, Mars Science Laboratory is part of NASA's Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the red planet. Mars Science Laboratory is a rover that will assess whether Mars ever was, or is still today, an environment able to support microbial life. In other words, its mission is to determine the planet's "habitability."

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Science

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A comparison of sizes for the Sojourner rover (Mars Pathfinder), the Mars Exploration Rovers, the Phoenix lander and the Mars Science Laboratory.

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Plastic-Producing Bacteria

San Diego-based Genomatica has developed a microorganism that could replace the need for petroleum in the process to make some plastics. They genetically engineered E.Coli bacteria to consumer sugar and produce plastic without the use of oil or natural gas. The process takes place under normal pressure and temperatures, which drastically cuts it energy use.

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Genomatica Turns Bacteria Into Plastic

San Diego-based scientists at Genomatica have developed the ability to manipulate bacteria into being useful to feed our societal lust for plastics, by producing “butanediol (BDO), a chemical compound used to make everything from spandex to car bumpers, thereby providing a more energy-efficient way of making it without oil or natural gas,” the article says.

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Turning Bacteria into Plastic Factories

GOOD BACTERIA: Genetically engineered E. coli may produce plastics, thereby eliminatiing the need to use fossil fuels.
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Cost will be the ultimate factor in whether this someday becomes a widely used plastic-making process; Genomatica says it's not sure how much its E. coli–produced BDO will cost, noting that results thus far have been confined to the lab.

2008-10-12

Deepest-living fishes (video)

British scientists have filmed for the first time the hadal snailfish: the deepest-dwelling ocean animal ever captured on camera.

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Caught on camera: The world's deepest-dwelling fish five miles under the ocean's surface

British scientists have filmed a species of fish said to be the deepest-dwelling ocean animal ever captured on camera.

A team from Aberdeen University collaborated with their Tokyo counterparts to film the ghostly white Hadal snail fish off Japan’s east coast at a depth of 7,700m.

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Beyond the abyss

Alan Jamieson and colleagues are on a mission to film the world's deepest-living fishes.

Ophidiidae Marianas, photographed on a previous Hadeep Project expedition.

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Deepest-living fishes caught on camera for the first time

Marine scientists filming in one of the world's deepest ocean trenches have found groups of highly sociable fish swarming nearly five miles (7700 metres) beneath the surface.

The Hadeep team.

With sapphire viewports and pressure housings as thick as cannon-barrels, the HADEEP submersible is made of stern stuff.

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rare Fish Caught on Camera 4.8 miles Deep

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2008-10-11

Google's GeoEye-1 Satellite

GeoEye Inc successfully launched its new GeoEye-1 satellite, which will provide Google Earth users and others the highest-resolution commercial color satellite imagery on the market.

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Google Earth gets a new space eye

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About the GeoEye-1 Satellite

The GeoEye-1 Satellite sensor was developed by GeoEye and features the most sophisticated technology ever used in a commercial remote sensing system.

GeoEye-1 is capable of acquiring image data at 0.41 meter panchromatic (B&W) and 1.65 meter multispectral resolution. It also features a revisit time of less than three days, as well as the ability to locate an object within just three meters of its physical location.

This newly developed sensor is optimized for large projects, as it can collect over 350,000 square kilometers of pan-sharpened multispectral satellite imagery every day.

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GeoEye-1 Satellite Images

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» About the GeoEye-1 Satellite Sensor
» Download the High Resolution Image
» More Images from GeoEye-1

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Launch of the GeoEye-1 satellite aboard a Delta II Rocket

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Breaking: Satellite for Google Earth Blasts off in Californi

An unedited animation provided by GeoEye of the satellite and the means by which it scans images of earth.

2008-10-10

TANDBERG T-3 Telepresence System

Tandberg has introduced a new generation of telepresence products with HD video cameras, wideband stereo sound, and common room environments that make participants feel like they are in the same room.

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TANDBERG Launches T3 Telepresence System

New TANDBERG Immersive Telepresence Delivers Step Change
through Aesthetics and Technology

HD System Interoperability Extends Experience Enterprise-wide

NEW YORK and OSLO, Norway, Oct 1, 2008--TANDBERG (OSLO: TAA.OL), the leading global provider of telepresence, high definition (HD) video conferencing and mobile video solutions, today unveiled the immersive TANDBERG Telepresence T3.

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Telepresence

Telepresence refers to a set of technologies which allow a person to feel as if they were present, to give the appearance that they were present, or to have an effect, at a location other than their true location.

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Telepresence T3

The ultimate telepresence experience. Beautiful, immersive and simple, the T3 is visual collaboration taken to an entirely new level. Thousands of details work together to provide an exclusive, natural forum so you can meet as if you are in the same room.

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Here is a commercial for the new TANDBERG T-3 Telepresence System.

2008-10-09

Sony’s Flexible OLED Display

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Foldable Computer And TV Screens To Be A Reality

Thanks to the efforts of researchers from Sony and the Max Planck Institute, now we may soon have computers that can be folded up to be put in the pocket and televisions sets that can be bended to view

Published in the New Journal of Physics, a study conducted by the researchers heralds the beginning of a technological revolution for screen displays. It demonstrates, for the first time, the possibility of bendable optically assessed organic light emitting displays, based on red or IR-A light upconversion.

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Sony demos transparent, flexible OLED display

Breakthrough for emissive displays will revolutionise portable TVs, ebooks and digital newspapers

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Sony's curved OLED

Sony has gotten all bent out of shape over OLED screens and given gadget fans a sneak preview of its curved organic LED display.

The screen's just 0.3mm thick

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What Would You Do with a See-through Display?

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Sony’s flexible 11-inch OLED display flaunted at CEATEC

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2008-10-07

Microvision's Pico Projector

At CEATEC in Tokyo, Japan, Microvision demonstrated the next-generation pico projector prototype - a pocket-sized laser projector that connects to mobile phones, personal media players and other mobile devices.

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Microvision demos green laser pico projector

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Microvision Pico Projector Demo

This week at CTIA, Microvision was showing off its incredible advances in ulra-small projectors, bringing the technology into devices no bigger than a cell phone or iPod.

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Microvision PicoP

Cell phone video projection in HD

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Pico Projector Displays: Overview

Microvision is the number one choice for OEMs who wish to breakthrough through the display bottleneck and provide customers with new viewing experiences. From embedded projectors that sit inside a handset to accessory projectors that connect to mobile devices,

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Pico Projector Displays: Embedded

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Pico Projector Displays: Accessory

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Accessory Displays

Embedded Displays

How It Works

Application Gallery

Video Gallery

2008-10-06

Robots Expressing Emotions

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Robots "Express Themselves"

Developers have created robots that appear to make human expressions and show human-like emotions.
©2008 National Geographic (AP)

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MIT's Nexi robot displays facial emotions

MIT's Nexi robot is able to express human like emotions with facial expressions. Eyes, eyelids and jaws move according to the emotions.

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The purpose of this platform is to support research and education goals in human-robot interaction, teaming, and social learning. In particular, the small footprint of the robot (roughly the size of a 3 year old child) allows multiple robots to operate safely within a typical laboratory floor space. MIT is responsible for the overall design, the mobile manipulator is developed by UMASS Amherst, and system integration is handled by Xitome Design.

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EveR2-Muse Robot's Many Faces

(The many faces of the EveR2-Muse robot)

2008-10-05

Rocket Racing League

The Rocket Racing League (RRL) is a futuristic sports league combining the exhilaration of racing with the power of rocket engines

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Rocket Racing League

The Rocket Racing League is a proposed racing league that would use rocket powered aircraft. The formation of the league was announced by Granger Whitelaw two time Indy 500 winning team owner and Peter Diamandis, founder of the Ansari X-Prize, on October 3, 2005, in partnership with the Reno Air Races. According to Diamandis, the purpose of the league is to "inspire people of all ages to once again look up into the sky and find inspiration and excitement."

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Rocket Racing League - Teaser

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Rocket engines are provided through multiple engine manufacturers who serve as technology partners to the League, augmenting its own staff in the primary technology areas of airframe, avionics and engine integration. Currently the two engine technology partners are Armadillo Aerospace and XCOR Aerospace.

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Test flight of RRL Rocket Racer with Armadillo Aerospace eng

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XCOR Rocket Racer flight test

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2008-10-04

Google's New Blog Tracking Service

Google launches a new blog search tool which organizes the news covered by weblogs. It divides the posts in categories and shows how many different blogs have written about a particular topic within what period of time.

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Google launches blog tracking service

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) — Google has launched an enhanced blog tracking service that helps people mine a growing mountain of online commentary for gems worth reading.

The Google Blog Search tool rolled out this week competes with Techmeme, Polymeme, Wikio and other "memetrackers" that sort and organize blog posts into categories.

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Today, we're pleased to launch a new homepage for Google Blog Search so that you too can browse and discover the most interesting stories in the blogosphere. Adapting some of the technology pioneered by Google News, we're now showing categories on the left side of the website

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Top Stories
Politics
US
World
Business
Technology
Video Games
Science
Entertainment
Movies
Television
Sports

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and organizing the blog posts within those categories into clusters, which are groupings of posts about the same story or event.

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2008-10-02

Thinking cap unlocks hidden genius

Australian scientist Allan Snyder says that "switching off" parts of the brain can unlock the hidden genius in all of us. This is achieved by stimulating parts of the brain with tiny magnetic pulses, induced by a hairnet-like cap.

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Savant syndrome

Characteristics

According to Treffert, something that almost all savants have in common is a remarkable memory:^[1] a memory that he describes as "exceedingly deep but very, very narrow".^[1]

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Savant for a Day

people undergoing transcranial magnetic stimulation, or TMS, could suddenly exhibit savant intelligence -- those isolated pockets of geniuslike mental ability that most often appear in autistic people.

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Special ‘Thinking Cap’ to Unlock Our Inner Genius

There is a theory that the spark of genius lurks hidden within all of us.Now scientists are developing a ‘thinking cap’ that could turn that theory into practice and unlock the amazing potential of the human brain. The device uses tiny magnetic pulses to change the way the brain works and has produced remarkable results in tests.

The ‘thinking cap’ can improve artistic ability and proof-reading skills
after a few minutes, left, and Professor Allan Snyder who
hopes to be able to produce creativity on demand

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