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:: 23 February, 2007
Hitachi Ltd., Security Solutions Group provides a broad portfolio of technology solutions in selected market sectors, including integrating new technologies such as smart cards and RFID into business processes as customized solutions.This new...
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:: 23 February, 2007
Feelix Growing is a research project involving six countries, and 25 roboticists, developmental psychologists and neuroscientists.
Co-ordinator Dr Lola Canamero said the aim was to build robots that "learn from humans and respond in a socially...
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:: 23 February, 2007
If Earth had a mountain so incredibly high that its peak poked through the outermost layer of our atmosphere, mountain climbers smart enough and hardy enough to reach the top would have some idea what it will be like to be camped on the moon.
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:: 23 February, 2007
Modifications of an aircraft control system developed by University of Leicester engineers, have been tested by flight test engineers from the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and German Air Force test pilots.
The Leicester modifications have...
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:: 23 February, 2007
“It’s somewhat of a crazy idea, I guess,” Liu told PhysOrg.com. “We were interested in using microtechnology to build something that could flex and bend. The chain mail construction is nothing fancy, but it’s an interesting structure that hasn’t...
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:: 22 February, 2007
At the south end of Palo Alto, barely visible from Highway 101, sits one of Silicon Valley's oldest, but least-known, manufacturing companies -- Space Systems Loral.
For 50 years, under a succession of corporate owners, Loral's engineers and...
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:: 22 February, 2007
The Solid State Heat Capacity Laser (SSHCL) has achieved 67 kilowatts (kW) of average power in the laboratory.
It could take only a further six to eight months to break the "magic" 100kW mark required for the battlefield, the project's chief...
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:: 22 February, 2007
Last month Apple announced its forthcoming iPod-based mobile phone would be called iPhone, but Cisco had registered it in 2000.
Under the deal, they will also work together in the areas of security, consumer and business communications.
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:: 22 February, 2007
It is hoped the device - known as a mobile clinical assistant (MCA) - will cut the time doctors and nurses spend on paper work.
It could also improve patient safety and speed up treatment times.
The portable device lets clinicians access...
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:: 21 February, 2007
A new communication protocol for wireless sensor networks released by the USC Viterbi School of Engineering's Information Sciences Institute is the most efficient yet, more than a tenfold improvement on previous versions.
Sensornets – an...
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:: 21 February, 2007
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has captured for the first time enough light from planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets, to identify signatures of molecules in their atmospheres. The landmark achievement is a significant step toward...
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:: 21 February, 2007
An "invisibility cloak" designed and tested by Duke University engineers was named one of Science Magazine's top ten breakthroughs of 2006.
Science’s Top Ten list appears in the journal’s December 22, 2006, issue.
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:: 21 February, 2007
Duke University biomedical engineering researchers have moved a step closer to a "smart bladder pacemaker" that might one day restore bladder control in patients with spinal cord injury or neurological disease.
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:: 21 February, 2007
Hand-held devices used for medical testing or environmental and food-safety monitoring could quickly and precisely measure concentrations of virtually any chemical substance, including blood proteins, toxic pollutants and dangerous biological...
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:: 19 February, 2007
Anyone who uses a laptop computer will know just how hot they can get. This overheating can sometimes cause injury, and may even reduce male fertility, if a user fails to notice how hot their machine is getting.
Intel is patenting a solution...
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:: 19 February, 2007
The impact of heavy use and high temperatures on hard disk drive failure may be overstated, says a report by three Google engineers.
The report examined 100,000 commercial hard drives, ranging from 80GB to 400GB in capacity, used at Google since...
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:: 19 February, 2007
Researchers are trying to find ways to regrow fingers — and someday, even limbs — with tricks that sound like magic spells from a Harry Potter novel.
There's the guy who sliced off a fingertip but grew it back, after he treated the wound with an...
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:: 19 February, 2007
Researchers say they have successfully generated electricity from heat by trapping organic molecules between metal nanoparticles, a finding that could yield cheap refrigerators, not to mention new, more efficient energy sources in general.
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:: 18 February, 2007
On a clear night over the far northern areas of the world, you may witness a hauntingly beautiful light display in the sky that can disrupt your satellite TV and leave you in the dark.
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:: 18 February, 2007
Biochip platforms that work as artificial cells are attractive for medical diagnostics, interrogation of biological processes, and for the production of important biomolecules. However, to match the complexity of nature, the biochips need to be...
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