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If you are searching for a secondary USB monitor, the Mimo Mini from ThinkGeek might be the right answer for you. The display features a 800 x 480 resolution with a 350 cd/m2 brightness level, 400:1 contrast ratio, and portrait/ landscape view.You just need to connect the 7-inch Mimo Mini to the computer’s USB port and the display is ready to use. The Mimo Mini is perfect for your IM client, widgets, PC gaming tools, your email, a spreadsheet, your PhotoShop tools, or even video. Weighing at 1.3-pounds, the Mimo Mini retails for $129.99.
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Product Features
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The Mimo running the Zune software Now Playing view….and Amanda F*ckin’ Palmer.
The Mimo and IE8 in Portrait Mode…cute, but usable? Not so much.
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price $129.99
7" screen : 800 x 480 pixels
detachable stand allows portrait or landscape mode
price $219.99
7" screen : 800 x 480 pixels
touchscreen, audio in/out ports
integrated webcam and microphone
great for VOIP applications
detachable stand allows portrait or landscape mode
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| Clipped from: BBC NEWS | Technology | Wireless power system shown off |
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A system that can deliver power to devices without the need for wires has been shown off at a hi-tech conference.
The technique exploits simple physics and can be used to charge a range of electronic devices over many metres.
Eric Giler, chief executive of US firm Witricity, showed mobile phones and televisions charging wirelessly at the TED Global conference in Oxford.
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WiTricity Corp.’s vision is to develop a family of wireless electric power components that will enable OEM’s in a broad range of industries and applications to make their products truly “wireless.” Wireless electric power delivered over room scale distances, and with high efficiency. Wireless electric power that is safe for people and animals. Wireless electric power—imagine no more… it’s here!
This WiTricity prototype system demonstrates wireless powering of an LCD TV. In this demonstration system, a WiTricity power source is positioned on the floor. It is connected to AC power and converts AC current to an oscillating magnetic field. The WiTricity capture device (to the right of the LCD TV), converts the magnetic energy to alternating current and powers the LCD TV. The WiTricity power source and capture devices are highly resonant magnetic systems that can exchange energy in a very efficient manner. WiTricity Corp. is miniaturizing and packaging the technology so that it can be built directly into a wide variety of products and systems—with no need for an external power capture device as shown in this prototype configuration.
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Abu Dhabi Nears the Finish Line With Their Racetrack-Side Hotel
The Yas, which will be the world's first five-star Formula One trackside hotel, is a monster with 500 rooms and a marina for docking your megayacht. All of this capped by the pivoting, diamond-shaped glass panels of the roof, which will produce "optical effects and spectral reflections that play against the surrounding sky, sea and desert landscape."
clipped from plusmood.comThe Yas Hotel Abu Dhabi | Asymptote Architecture
Hani Rashid describes the building’s design and its architecture as:
a perfect union and harmonious interplay between elegance and spectacle. The search here was inspired by what one could call the ‘art’ and poetics of motor racing, specifically Formula 1, coupled with the making of a place that celebrates Abu Dhabi as a cultural and technological tour de force.
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Abu Dhabi Building F1 Racetrack Hotel and Ferrari Theme Park
clipped from www.formula1.com2009 FORMULA 1 ETIHAD AIRWAYS ABU DHABI GRAND PRIX
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Located on the spectacular Yas Island, the track is set to revolutionise the design of future Formula One circuits. Boasting top speeds of 320 km/h and average speeds of 198 km/h, it features nine right turns and 11 left turns and is one of the few venues on the calendar to run in an anti-clockwise direction.
Designed by renowned circuit architect Hermann Tilke, Yas Marina has a waterfront setting scenic enough to rival the likes of Monaco and Valencia. And with the track wrapping itself around the island's glamorous newly-built marina, there's plenty of mooring space for the paddock's plethora of yachts.
Its distinctive design also boasts several innovative elements including the stunning five-star, 500-room Yas Marina Hotel, which straddles the circuit, and the 60-metre solar powered Sun Tower, which offers unrivalled views for invited guests.
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Shweeb – Human powered monorail racetrack review
Located in the Agroventures, Roterua, New Zealand Shweeb is the worlds first human powered monorail racetrack. The Shweeb was opened in November 2007 and attracted 10,000 visitors in its first year.
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An in depth video of a ride on the worlds first SHWEEB in Rotorua, New Zealand's adventure capital.
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Welcome To Shweeb
You jump into an aerodynamic capsule and race like a bullet for three laps. With seven gears to play with it’s easy to get up to your top speed.
Feel the adrenalin kick in as you fly around curves swinging out 60 degrees! You soar 4m above the pond and then miss the ground by inches!
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- Gears: 7
- Swing: 65 degrees left/ right
- Weight: 80kg
- Rider: 1.4 – 2m tall
- Max rider weight: 1200kg
- Drag Coef: 0.295
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Asus Eee PC T91
ASUSTEK HAS RELEASED a tablet touch-screen netbook, the Eee PC T91.
The Asus T91 is a netbook, except it's a netbook with a touch screen display, which can be turned into a tablet PC by swivelling the display around to cover the entire keyboard.
clipped from www.youtube.comAsus Eee Pc T91
ASUS demonstrated the new convertible Eee PC T91 multi-touch notebook at CES 2009.
clipped from www.asus.comEee PC™ T91 with Swivelable Touchscreen Opens Up New Tablet Usage Possibilities
Touchscreen and Convertible Tablet PC Form Factor for Flexibility of Use
Sensational Software Suite
Sleek and Stylish Portability
Always-on Connectivity
One-touch Entertainment on the Go
Extended Battery Life with Super Hybrid Engine
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Asus Eee PC T91 touchscreen netbook review
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Touchscreen and Display
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The good: Small and light; well-done custom touch-screen interface; good battery life.
The bad: Uses less powerful version of the Intel Atom CPU; not much space on the tiny SSD hard drive.
The bottom line: Asus does a good job combining a Netbook and a touch screen in the Eee PC T91, even if the system hits a couple of first-generation snags.
Specifications:
Processor: Intel ATOM (1400 MHz);
RAM installed:1024 MB DDR II SDRAM;
Weight:2 lbs;
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Robotic Technology Inc. is working on a robot that is powered by biomass - grass, wood, or even dead bodies. The steam powered robot, which is being developed for the Pentagon under a Phase II SBIR grant, is designed for fuel itself off materials in its environment. While the title, “… could feed on dead bodies”, is quite sensational, the ability to power a vehicle using naturally occurring sources of fuel would be a big boon to military vehicles. The “Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot”, or EATR,
… will be powered by the Waste Heat Engine developed by Cyclone Power Technology of Pompano Beach, Fla., which uses an “external combustion chamber” burning up fuel to heat up water in a closed loop, generating electricity.
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EATR
Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot (EATR) Project
The purpose of the Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot (EATR)™ (patent pending) project is to develop and demonstrate an autonomous robotic platform able to perform long-range, long-endurance missions without the need for manual or conventional re-fueling, which would otherwise preclude the ability of the robot to perform such missions. The system obtains its energy by foraging – engaging in biologically-inspired, organism-like, energy-harvesting behavior which is the equivalent of eating. It can find, ingest, and extract energy from biomass in the environment (and other organically-based energy sources), as well as use conventional and alternative fuels (such as gasoline, heavy fuel, kerosene, diesel, propane, coal, cooking oil, and solar) when suitable.
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How It Works
The Cyclone Engine is a Rankine Cycle heat regenerative external
combustion engine, otherwise known as a “Schoell Cycle” engine. It creates
mechanical energy by heating and cooling water in a closed-loop, piston-based
engine system. The process looks like this:
For more technical info about the
Cyclone Engine, including photos and video,
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Darpa's Self-Feeding Sentry Robot is Not a Man-Eater, Company Protests
"We completely understand the public's concern about futuristic robots feeding on the human population, but that is not our mission," says CEO
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Dr. Bob Finkelstein, president of RTI and a cybernetics expert, said the EATR would be programmed to recognize specific fuel sources and avoid others.
"Despite the far-reaching reports that this includes “human bodies,” the public can be assured that the engine Cyclone (Cyclone Power Technologies Inc.) has developed to power the EATR runs on fuel no scarier than twigs, grass clippings and wood chips -- small, plant-based items for which RTI’s robotic technology is designed to forage. Desecration of the dead is a war crime under Article 15 of the Geneva Conventions, and is certainly not something sanctioned by DARPA, Cyclone or RTI."
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A Preassembled Nuclear Reactor
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| Clipped from: Cyborg crickets could chirp at the smell of survivors - tech - 11 July 2009 - New Scientist |
Pentagon-backed researchers have already created insect cyborgs by implanting them with electrodes to control their wing muscles. The latest plan is to create living communication networks by implanting a package of electronics in crickets, cicadas or katydids - all of which communicate via wing-beats. The implants will cause the insects in these OrthopterNets to modulate their calls in the presence of certain chemicals.
"We could do this by adjusting the muscle tension or some other parameter that affects the sound-producing movements. The insect itself might not even notice the modulation," says Ben Epstein of OpCoast, who came up with the idea during a visit to China, where he heard cicadas changing calls in response to each other. The firm, which is based in Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey, has been awarded a six-month contract to develop a mobile communications network for insects.
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April 24, 2009 — OpCoast was awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) effort by the US Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Defense (CBD) organization under topic C091-105-0118, entitled "Bio-MEMs Agile Sensor Platforms and Communication Networks." Our effort, called "OrthopterNets – Using Insects to Sense and Communicate," will leverage the world-class MEMS and bio-system interfaces technology of Texas A&M University. We will develop technology to enable acoustic and RF based networking of sensor and other data on 'insect nodes'.
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What is believed to be the world's first robot that comes to take away rubbish from your house when you want it to has been unveiled in Italy.
The Dustbot can be summoned to your address through a mobile phone any time of the day.
The robot works with a combination of GPS navigation and with a gyroscope to keep it upright. There are also a number of sensors on the machine so it does not bump into anything.
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The Dustbot is a midsized robot that can manoeuvre itself and collect garbage and also analyze the surrounding air. It measures sulphur oxide, benzene, nitrogen oxide and other such harmful chemicals in the air. It comes with a touch screen which allows the user to tell what kinda garbage he is being given.
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There is plenty of water in the world for everyone, the problem has always been trying to convert it into a form we can drink. German Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute recently announced that they have developed a new method to convert air humidity into drinking water using renewable energy. They are proposing large water harvesting plants to be located even in the most remote of places, such as the Sahara desert. Is this the solution to our water problems?
clipped from www.sciencedaily.comDrinking Water From Air Humidity
ScienceDaily (June 8, 2009) — Not a plant to be seen, the desert ground is too dry. But the air contains water, and research scientists have found a way of obtaining drinking water from air humidity. The system is based completely on renewable energy and is therefore autonomous.
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Drinking water from air humidity
clipped from www.fraunhofer.declipped from www.fraunhofer.deThe principle of the process is as follows: hygroscopic brine – saline solution which absorbs moisture – runs down a tower-shaped unit and absorbs water from the air. It is then sucked into a tank a few meters off the ground in which a vacuum prevails. Energy from solar collectors heats up the brine, which is diluted by the water it has absorbed. Because of the vacuum, the boiling point of the liquid is lower than it would be under normal atmospheric pressure. This effect is known from the mountains: as the atmospheric pressure there is lower than in the valley, water boils at temperatures distinctly below 100 degrees Celsius. The evaporated, non-saline water is condensed and runs down through a completely filled tube in a controlled manner. The gravity of this water column continuously produces the vacuum and so a vacuum pump is not needed. The reconcentrated brine runs down the tower surface again to absorb moisture from the air.
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| Clipped from: Google joins battle with Microsoft with Chrome operating system - Times Online |
Google Chrome OS is a development of its “Chrome” web browser. The search giant initially aims to put the new system on small low-cost computers known as “netbooks”, which have been selling better than more powerful PCs. Google said that it believed the software will eventually be used on PCs as well.
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[...] today, we're announcing a new project that's a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It's our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.
Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we're already talking to partners about the project, and we'll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.
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Google Chrome OS will run on both x86 as well as ARM chips and we are working with multiple OEMs to bring a number of netbooks to market next year. The software architecture is simple — Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel. For application developers, the web is the platform. All web-based applications will automatically work and new applications can be written using your favorite web technologies. And of course, these apps will run not only on Google Chrome OS, but on any standards-based browser on Windows, Mac and Linux thereby giving developers the largest user base of any platform.
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[...] This is Google dropping the mother of bombs on its chief rival, Microsoft. It even says as much in the first paragraph of its post, “However, the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web.” Yeah, who do you think they mean by that?
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What Google is doing is not recreating a new kind of OS, they’re creating the best way to not need one at all.
So why release this new OS instead of using Android? After all, it has already been successfully ported to netbooks. Google admits that there is some overlap there. But a key difference they don’t mention is the ability to run on the x86 architecture.
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Still, Windows and OSX will always have a spacious home in the computer world, undoubtedly. Some apps will always require native architecture, and the businessmen, code-monkeys, graphic designers, video editors and other connoisseurs of nuanced computing would be foolhardy to try and work strictly in the cloud.
But the final hurdle for Google to overcome is easy, accessible online storage. Will they be able to go after Amazon's S3 cloud servers? And perhaps more importantly, will they be able to offer the service for free? If they can let us really extend our hard drives into the cloud, look out. Chrome OS will be a force to be reckoned with.
As a blogger for TechCrunch, Michael Arrington has often pined for a simple, cheap tablet that's made primarily for browsing the Web. He's now putting his money where his mouth is, and has formed a company to sell a Web tablet called the CrunchPad. clipped from bits.blogs.nytimes.com
clipped from www.techcrunch.comCompare the images below to the first prototype and you can see how far we’ve come. If you’re interested, here’s Prototype B. Pictures of Prototype C, which is the device we’re actually demo’ing to people now, are here.
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Robert J. Lang
Dr. Robert J. Lang 1961 (age 47–48) is an American physicist who is also one of the foremost origami artists and theorists in the world. He is known for his complex and elegant designs, most notably of insects and animals. He has long been a student of the mathematics of origami and of using computers to study the theories behind origami. He has made great advances in making real-world applications of origami to engineering problems.
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The intersections between origami, mathematics, and science occur at many levels and include many fields of the latter. We can group these intersections into roughly three categories:
- Origami mathematics, which includes the mathematics
that describes the underlying laws of origami;- Computational origami, which comprises algorithms
and theory devoted to the solution of origami problems by mathematical
means;- Origami technology, which is the application of
origami (and folding in general) to the solution of problems arising
in engineering, industrial design, and technology in general.
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What if a vehicle could run off of mother nature? The Nomad is powered by eating the natural vegitation, which is also fed through to the driver. To be used for competitive events, tourism and exploration, the Nomad is agile and aware, using gps technology to map out the richest vegitation areas for maximum power consumption. clipped from www.coroflot.com
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The Nomad not only looks like a beast, but also moves, on its legs, like a living being, which makes it ideal for off-road rides and adventure trips. The concept includes a helmet and survival pack for the rider that will find good use in the off-road adventure rides.
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Super-colony of ants rivals human society as population stretches around the globe
Argentine ants from three huge colonies in Europe, America and Japan are actually part of one global super-colony, scientists have revealed.
The aggressive insects were first native to South America but humans have since spread them to the four corners of the globe by mistake. The ants have quickly become nuisance pests and attacked crops and even native animals.
But while they are usually highly territorial, researchers found billions of ants living on three different continents refused to fight each other, according to BBC Earth News.
Argentine ants work together to care for a larva. Scientists have discovered a mega-colony of this invasive insect species that stretches across the globe
Two Argentine ants exchange aphid dew. Colonies of these ants 'farm' aphids, keeping them close by as a ready source of sugar
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Ant mega-colony takes over world
The colony may be the largest of its type ever known for any insect species, and could rival humans in the scale of its world domination.
What's more, people are unwittingly helping the mega-colony stick together.
Argentine ants (Linepithema humile) were once native to South America. But people have unintentionally introduced the ants to all continents except Antarctica.
These introduced Argentine ants are renowned for forming large colonies, and for becoming a significant pest, attacking native animals and crops.
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One of the biggest feral supercolonies in the world is taking over Melbourne. The invaders are Argentine Ants, and they’ve formed a mafia that has systematically wrestled control of the suburbs from the native ants over the last 50 years. We find out how they managed to stage such a massive coup and what effects they are having on the native ecosystems.
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Unicoloniality and supercolonies
Most commonly, ants from different nests exhibit aggression toward each other. However, some ants exhibit the phenomenon called unicoloniality, where worker ants freely mix between different nests. A group of nests where ants do not exhibit mutual aggression is known as a supercolony - this form of organization is known as supercoloniality, and ants from different supercolonies of the same species do exhibit mutual aggression. Populations in supercolonies do not necessarily span a contiguous area. [2]
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| Clipped from: Faster-than-light radio waves could revolutionize computer industries – New Tech Gadgets & Electronic Devices | Geek.com |
| Clipped from: Accelerated radio waves: A revolution in semiconductor industry? - Bright Side Of News* |
Scientist John Singleton created an interesting device that accelerates the radio waves until they pass the speed of light. Yes, you've read that correctly - by using a process that is similar to the way Pulsar stars emit light - John jerked radio waves until they caved in and passed their theoretical speed barrier.
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Singleton stated that usages for his device are enormous: "Because nobody's really thought about things that travel faster than light before, this is a wide-open technological field". This discovery could revolutionize medical, communication, semiconductor, space exploration fields.
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Most people think Einstein said that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, but that's not really the case, Singleton said.
Einstein predicted that particles and information can't travel faster than the speed of light — but phenomenon like radio waves? That's a different story, said Singleton, a Los Alamos National Laboratory Fellow.
Singleton has created a gadget that abuses radio waves so severely that they finally give in and travel faster than light.
"Because nobody's really thought about things that travel faster than light before, this is a wide-open technological field," Single ton said.
One possible use for the resulting speedy radio waves — which are packed into a very powerful wave the size of a pencil point — could be the creation of a new generation of cell phones that communicate directly to satellites, rather than transmitting through relay towers as they now do.
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