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RAPHAEL G. SATTER This undated handout picture released by Warwick University on Thursday May 26, 2011 which shows the corner of sky where a team of astronomers say they found the most distant explosion ever detected. The little red dot at the center is the gamma ray burst, estimated by the researchers to be more

    Park, California. To identify a mystery garment, the robot first holds it up using one of its two grippers. This allows it to estimate the garment’s length, by using its twin cameras to detect its lowest point. Next, the robot holds the garment with both grippers and records its outline as well as

Kat Austen, CultureLab editor (Image: BBC) Silicon Valley in the 1990s. Excitement filled the air. Hopeful entrepreneurs drove fast cars to their shiny workplaces, where they discussed the boundless possibilities arising from the technological explosion unfolding before their eyes. They progressed in leaps and bounds towards their utopia: a self-stabilising network of human beings who

MALCOLM RITTER   This artist’s conception provided by NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory-Caltech shows a newly discovered type of planet that wanders freely or follows very loose orbits. Astronomers have the mysterious denizens of the Milky Way are apparently as common as the stars. One expert called the discovery a huge surprise. (AP Photo/NASA JPL-Caltech) Are these

More ways to spy on you   To Fly By beating its wings back and forth, the UAV creates lift by deflecting air downward, creating an area of high pressure directly below the wings and low pressure above. Bob Sauls View Photo Gallery In 2006, Darpa, the Department of Defense’s R&D arm, commissioned AeroVironment, a

By Rebecca Boyle Posted 05.20.2011 at 12:01 pm 36 Comments     The Cosmic Microwave Background NASA Largest-Ever Survey of Cosmic History Confirms That Dark Energy Exists, Is Tearing the Universe Apart After a five-year study of 200,000 galaxies, scientists are more certain than ever that dark energy acts as a repulsive force, tearing the

        Virgin Galactic has tested the return capabilities of their SpaceShipTwo spacecraft for the first time. The video of its first feathered flight is just too beautiful and elegant to describe. Just watch it:     Click on video to see at full screen     The test was conducted at the

    http://en.eyeka.net/  a crowdsourcing company that specializes in “online co-creation” of products, has published some intriguing concepts for future smartphones. eYeka’s community came up with the following list of requirements for a next generation smartphone: a minimalistic, non-complicated design; more features (which may clash with the previous requirement); a design which feels like an

Relativity experiment is the most accurate yet   Different Times at Different Heights The higher you go, the slower time moves. via Flickr/ ZeroOne (CC licensed) Einstein first figured out that time moves at a different rate depending on how fast you’re moving, and depending on how close you are to a gravitational field. And

Sandrine Ceurstemont, video producer   You may think it’s easy to perceive an object’s location. But a new illusion created by Peter Tse from Dartmouth College, New Hampshire and his team shows that surrounding motion can trick our brain. While looking at the animation above, pay attention to the moving layer of black dots while

A cheap way to turn a screen of any size into a touch-sensitive device. An ultra-precise game controller. A new way to manipulate images. These are just some of the possible uses for ZeroTouch, an interface unveiled this week at the Conference on Human Factors in Computing by researchers from Texas A&M University in College

Nice !!! Live Nasa TV Video chat rooms at Ustream     Mark Wilson/Getty ImagesThe space shuttle Endeavour lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Monday to began a mission to the International Space Station.    May 16, 2011 The space shuttle Endeavour made a picture-perfect liftoff Monday morning as it

What time is it, Really ? ______ Chip-Scale Atomic Clock NIST via Wikimedia Commons The slightest whisper of warmth induces miscalculations in the world’s most precise atomic clock, researchers say. Accounting for this effect can make future clocks even more precise, eventually leading to atomic clocks that lose only one second every 32 billion years

  Intel is taking nano-scale chip design literally to another level. After more than five decades of putting flat (or planar) transistors to work in billions of chips in billions of digital devices ranging from big-iron mainframes to minuscule embedded sensors, Intel said May 4 that it now will build the tiny processing units in

Wow, there goes my iPhone cracked display repair business Kev ____________   Most of the weight of mobile devices comes from the metal inside, where copper conductors shuttle around the electrons that make your smartphone or touch-screen tablet work. However, by switching from stiff-metal to flexible-plastic conductors, the mobile devices of the future will be

Tons of info on Cable TV and data transfer. Kev   The ideal way to build a national broadband network for access to the Internet would be with a high-bandwidth, bidirectional cable running to each individual household. But sometimes you have to work with what you’ve got, and in America, what we have are cable

Wow, lets get small. Wish I had one of these back in the days.  Looks like you will have to wait a while till they go on sale though. Kev David Braben is a very well-known game developer who runs the UK development studio Frontier Developments, but is just as well known for being the

      (PhysOrg.com) — A new audio/video cable techology is being developed that might spell the end of HDMI cables, which are currently used to connect a wide range of audio and video devices. The new technology is known as HDBaseT and carries audio and video signals and power on standard Cat 5e/6 Ethernet

  This is a Teleportation Device The setup Noriyuki Lee and colleagues used to teleport quantum light. Science/AAAS Beam me up Scotty !!  Well not quite. Getting closer though Kev _____   In a real-life use of Schrödinger’s theoretical paradoxical cat, researchers report that they were able to quickly transfer a complex set of quantum

Oblong Industries is remaking the world of computers. Our technology transforms the way you work, create, and collaborate. The era of one human, one mouse, one screen, one machine is giving way to what’s next: multiple participants, working in proximity and remotely, using a groundbreaking spatial interface to control applications and data spread across every

Hmm, I replaced the News Paper years ago with my iPod Touch. Then my Tilt 2 with windows mobile. Now of cource its the iPhone and the iPad. Was even doing alot of news updates with my dusty old laptop.  Save the trees, get a Tablet (grin) Kevin From Rupert Murdoch’s The Daily to the

    Mobile phones have evolved into smartphones because these devices have basically become computers in the form of a cell phone. Besides browsing, one of the key components that make smartphones as interactive as a computer are the apps that can be used within the device. And it’s interesting to consider how we can

    LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman said, recently, “that if Web 1.0 involved go search, get data and some limited interactivity, and if Web 2.0 involves real identities and real relationships, then Web 3.0 will be real identities generating massive amounts of data.” Reid is a visionary and certainly had this right. But the information that Reid described is

Tablets have really come into their own within the last year. With Apple’s introduction of the iPad and now Google and Blackberry entering the game, many people have been left asking, “do I really need a tablet?” and “what is the point of having one?” Some people believe that tablet computing is just a fad,

This is pretty neat !!! — Da Vinci Robot’s Plane Swedish Seattle via YouTube The da Vinci robot, renowned for its prostate surgery skill, can also fly planes. Well, paper ones anyway. With Dr. James Porter of Seattle’s Swedish Medical Center guiding its tiny robotic arms through the process, da Vinci successfully folds and flies

Hmm, reminds me of the days when you could not own a phone. Only could lease it from Mountain Bell. I must of had 50 of them illegally. Taking them apart to see what made them tic. Hopefully this takeover will improve phone service in Colorado. Dr. Kev —————- Abel Chavez and Pete Sardaczuk have

FCC making some money again. aul Marks, senior technology correspondent After paying around £5 billion each in the UK auction for 3G frequencies in 2000, Britain’s cellphone companies are gearing up to bid for the next round of over-the-air bandwidth after the telecomms regulator Ofcom announced that two chunks of 4G frequencies will be auctioned

Helen Thomson, biomedical news editor A paralysed woman was still able to accurately control a computer cursor with her thoughts 1000 days after having a tiny electronic device implanted in her brain, say the researchers who devised the system. The achievement demonstrates the longevity of brain-machine implants. The woman, for whom the researchers use the

Hmmm, but can she cook?   Roxxxy with Creator Douglas Hines AFP Just a few blocks away from CES, at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo, innovation took a different form as the world’s first commercially available life-sized AI robotic girlfriend enjoyed her big coming out party.   Standing five feet seven inches and weighing 120

This image released by NASA shows an enhanced photo image of Mercury from its Messenger probe’s 2008 flyby of the planet. NASA says it was a taste of pictures likely to come after March 17, 2011, when the probe enters Mercury’s orbit. This photo shows the eastern part of the smallest and closest planet in