TXTEAGLE

Idle time that English speaking mobile phone subscribers have within the developing world is estimated to be more than 250,000,000 hours every day. Given high rates of unemployment and marginal income sources, much of this population would greatly benefit from even an extra dollar per day. txteagle enables these tasks to be completed via text message by ordinary people around the globe.

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NASA Offering Zero Gravity Flight For Free

NASA is looking for new technologies that have potential use in future agency projects which could benefit from testing during flights on an airplane that simulates the weightless conditions of space. The testing opportunities are being offered to U.S. companies, individuals, academic or research institutions, or government agencies. Through a partnership agreement, NASA will provide free flight time for the tests while project teams will be responsible for all other expenses. Proposals are due by March 20.

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The Waterpod: a Floating Eco-Habitat

The Waterpod is a visionary, floating habitat set to launch on May 1st.

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Exoskeleton power steering

The excoskeleton by Cyberdyne called HAL can magnify a person's strength by between two and 10 times. But this technique can have difficulties measuring and interpreting electrical activity in the body – in particular, the way electrical activity varies between individuals, and the confusing electrical signals given off by many muscles in one part of the body moving at once.

Now Japanese car giant Honda is patenting a different approach for its own exoskeletons. The company's suit senses the force and velocity of a limb in motion and then attempts to match the movement using whatever force is necessary.

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Stanford University encode letters "S" and "U" as small as 0.3 nanometers

The researchers encoded the letters "S" and "U" (as in Stanford University) within the interference patterns formed by quantum electron waves on the surface of a sliver of copper. The wave patterns even project a tiny hologram of the data, which can be viewed with a powerful microscope.

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Fracture Putty - bone-healing wonder materials

Two teams of Rice University bioengineers and colleagues at the Texas Medical Center have been asked to create a putty-like wonder material that can be packed around broken bones on the battlefield to reduce complications from compound fractures.

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The Playpump

The Playpump is a playground merry-go-round that uses the boundless energy of children to pump water out of the ground. More than 1000 such pumps have been installed in schools in South Africa, Mozambique, Swaziland and Zambia and apart from bringing joy to children, and providing easy access to clean drinking water for the local community.

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Do we really need handwriting any more?

"...two schools of thought: One is that it wouldn’t matter if nobody learned handwriting because we all have computers, and the other is that this is an interesting, historic, valuable, and beautiful skill that has been around for thousands of years, and we are just tossing it out."



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One man's vision for Augmented Reality and Holography

It's very cool!

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Intel's RF energy harvester

Intel set up a TV antenna on a balcony with line of sight to the KING-TV tower 4.1 km away. The TV station broadcasts on channel 48 between 674 and 680 MHz with an effective radiation power (ERP) of 960 Kw. The TV antenna used was a UHF log periodic with 5 dBi gain connected to a 4 stage charge pump power harvesting circuit of the same design as that found in an RFID tag. Across an 8 KOhm load the team measured 0.7V, corresponding to 60 microwatts of power harvested. That was enough to drive a thermometer/hygrometer and its LCD display, which is normally powered, by a 1.5 volt AAA battery.

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Mitsubishi's compact electric car

The i MiEV SPORT AIR. The futuristic vehicle will run on a 63horsepower (46kilawatt) electric motor powered by 330-volt lithium ion batteries.

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Media Vehicle pod offers virtual reality

Once inside a large spherical display acts as your virtual video experience while your legs are allowed to move freely on a movable track.

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Your Own Country

Start your own country at sea, living in your own utopia with its own laws, customs and peculiarities. Sure, it's been tried before with varying degrees of success, but now the nonprofit Seasteading Institute says such a platform can be built safely, and at reasonable cost.

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The Moller Flying Car

It's here!

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The ion-propelled, remotely-powered jetpack

A new U.S. patent has been awarded to a company that has plans for a safe, silent personal flight device using electromagnetic ion propulsion as its primary thrust generator and drawing its power wirelessly from earthbound inductive green power broadcast stations.

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Water Proof Books

Never be afraid to get a precious book wet, again.

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Microsatellites

Information on the microsatellites themselves is virtually nonexistent. The MiTEx launch, on June 18, was heralded by a press release touting its upper stage as a “technology demonstrator,” but this is where the story gets interesting.

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Digital Needle - A Virtual Gramophone

An inspired engineer imagines he is an archaeologist from the future, working to uncover the purpose of those flat, grooved discs that we know today as vinyl records.

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Quieting Sonic Booms

NASA is concluding a series of flight tests to measure shock waves generated by an F-15 jet, in an effort to validate computer models that could be used in designing quieter supersonic aircraft. The Lift and Nozzle Change Effects on Tail Shock, or Lancets, project aims to enable the development of commercial aircraft that can fly faster than the speed of sound without generating annoying sonic booms.

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Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE Announces First Round of Registered Teams in Competition to Develop 100 MPGe Vehicles

This first wave of Registered Teams, representing 10 states and five countries, are among the first to have submitted their registration applications.

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I-SHOES

A new type of personal transportation and recreational gadget.

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Bees' vision to help intelligence systems

A study revealing honeybees can learn to recognise human faces even when seen from different viewpoints has raised the possibility of
improving artificial intelligence systems and computer programs for facial recognition.

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The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Robot (STAIR)

"Stair, please fetch the stapler from the lab," says the man seated at a conference room table. The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Robot, standing nearby, replies in a nasal monotone, "I will get the stapler for you."

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The International College of Robotic Surgery

Saint Joseph's Health System announced that it has launched the International College of Robotic Surgery (ICRS), a non-profit training center for robotic surgical teams from around the world.

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Scientist Teleport Matter More Than Three Feet

Teleportation is one of nature's most mysterious forms of transport: Quantum information, such as the spin of a particle or the polarization of a photon, is transferred from one place to another, without traveling through any physical medium.

The Joint Quantum Institute at the University of Maryland, who led the effort, reported that, by using their protocol, atom-to-atom teleported information can be recovered with perfect accuracy about 90 percent of the time — and that figure can be improved.

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The $5K Paper House

This isn't mere papercraft—the Universal World House is a $5,000, 390-square-foot modular home, outfitted with plumbing and boarding facilities to support up to eight (eight!) residents each. The secret of its construction is its "paper" shell; the resin-soaked cellulose, made from recycled paper, is shaped into honeycomb walls, which provide structural integrity and insulation to the houses.

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The i-Limb

"The i-Limb was developed by a Scottish company, Touch Bionics, and has won awards for its innovative technology. The total cost including the hand itself and the fitting is about £30,000.


"It's so sensitive I can grip a bottle of water or a paper cup without crushing it, and even swing a racket. All I have to so is imagine picking something up or gripping it and the fingers and thumb move automatically."

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World's smallest fuel cell

Because the device is so small - just 3 mm by 3 mm by 1 mm - surface tension, not gravity, controls the flow of water through the system. This means that the cell operates even if moved and rotated - perfect for life inside a pocket gadget.

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Worms help find cure for muscle-wasting diseases

Dr Nathaniel Szewczyk, from the Institute of Clinical Research in Derby, will study the signals that control muscle protein degradation in worms.

His work centres on the microscopic worm, Caenorhabditis elegans.

These worms are the perfect substitute for studying long term changes in human physiology because they suffer from muscle atrophy - muscle loss - under many of the same conditions that people do.

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Security robot that nets burglars with spider web spray

Created by robot developer tmsuk and security firm Alacom the surveillance robot reacts to body heat and sound.

The prototype T-34 trundles along on four small wheels and it loaded with sensors that can detect anything untoward in an office building.

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New material may make Space Elevator possible

Spurred on by a $4m (£2.7m) research prize from Nasa, a team at Cambridge University has created the world’s strongest ribbon: a cylindrical strand of carbon that combines lightweight flexibility with incredible strength and has the potential to stretch vast distances.

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Scientists find clean method of making fuel from manure

A university professor and a corporate research group have jointly developed technology to produce hydrogen for use in fuel cells from cattle dung and urine for the first time in the world.

The new technology used by Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine Prof. Junichi Takahashi and Sumitomo Corp.'s research group also can be applied to human waste and allows the production of hydrogen without producing unwanted carbon dioxide.

The research may pave the way for the eventual development of household "toilet generators."

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Tiny motors may be big in surgery

Conventional electric motors do not perform as well as they are scaled down in size; as they approach millimeter dimensions, they barely have the power to overcome the resistance in their bearings.

The new research leverages piezoelectric forces by transforming the linear motion of tiny piezoelectric motors into rotation.

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A form of Telekinesis

Thought controlled floating ball.

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Segway Inventor make prosthetic Arm

It works by thought and nerve.


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3-D Web Cam

With two cameras and a built-in processor it produces 3-D images.

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Pollution and Lightning Strikes

In the south-eastern states [of the US], lightning strikes increased with pollution by as much as 25 per cent during the working week. The moist, muggy air in this region creates low-lying clouds with plenty of space to rise and generate the charge needed for an afternoon thunderstorm.

Surprisingly, the effect was not strongest within big cities with high pollution, but in the suburbs and rural areas surrounding them....

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Unraveling The Mystery Of Camouflage

Roger Hanlon, a senior scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), has spent 35 years studying animal camouflage, and in that time he has moved beyond awe at nature's disappearing tricks and discovered three broad classes of camouflage body patterns. He and his colleagues detail these three pattern classes, and how they achieve several mechanisms of visual deceit, in this week's issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. The issue is entirely devoted to camouflage.

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Bird Flu Vaccination

A European consortium has developed a vaccination against the avian H7N1 Influenza. The new vaccination achieved good results in clinical trials and has a high chance of being approved for clinical use. This new vaccine can save human and animal lives and prevent an outbreak of "pandemic" Influenza.

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Eyes reveal health secrets of the brain

Thanks to an optical version of ultrasound, it is becoming possible to locate and monitor the growth of brain tumours, and to track neurodegenerative conditions like multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease - all by peering into the eye.

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Bone Marrow Stem Cells Used To Regenerate Skin

A new study suggests that adult bone marrow stem cells can be used in the construction of artificial skin. The findings mark an advancement in wound healing and may be used to pioneer a method of organ reconstruction.

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MIT Chemists engineer plants to produce new compounds

Genetic engineering is not new: Scientists have known for years how to get plants to resist pests and herbicides or to produce substances such as insecticides by inserting genes from other plants or animals. What is new, however, is the ability to induce plants to create new products by tinkering with the plants' own synthetic pathways.

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Gdrive

Google Drive is basically a cloud-based storage that should have two faces: A desktop client that keeps local and online files and folders in two-directional sync via a web interface for accessing your desktop files anywhere and anytime, using any network-enabled computer. In addition, it will come tightly integrated with other Google services to enable editing of supported document types, like spreadsheets and presentations via Google Docs, email via Gmail, images via Picasa Web Albums, etc.

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Magnetic resonance 100 million times better

Scientists at IBM, along with researchers the Center for Probing the Nanoscale at Stanford University, say they have developed and demonstrated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology with volume resolution 100 million times finer than conventional MRI.

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Ending Static in Communications

"Cloaking technology could be used to make obstacles that impede communications signals 'disappear,'" said David Smith of Duke University in North Carolina, who worked on the study published in the journal Science.

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Removing Heavy Metals from Blood

South Korean scientists may have found a way to remove dangerous heavy metals such as lead from blood by using specially designed magnetic receptors.

The receptors bind strongly to lead ions and can be easily removed, along with their lead cargo, using magnets, they wrote in an article in Angewandte Chemie International Edition, a leading chemistry journal.

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Stem Cell Progress

A British biotechnology company, working with a team of doctors in Scotland, is to launch a pioneering clinical trial to assess whether stem cell therapy can help patients left disabled by stroke.

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New method to make Graphene

Could Lead to Transparent, Bendable Electronics.

Thin, translucent sheets of graphene may one day allow electronic displays that can be folded and rolled up like a newspaper. South Korean researchers have found a way to deposit graphene using CVD, which involves evaporating a mixture of large carbon-containing molecules and firing it over a heated metal surface. The molecules break down, releasing carbon that re-organises on the surface in neat graphene sheets. The precise conditions of the experiment determine how many sheets are produced [BBC News]. The researchers used extremely thin pieces of nickel as the metal surface on which to grow the graphene, the molecules of which forms a regular hexagonal pattern similar to chicken wire. Afterward, the nickel can be chemically dissolved away, leaving behind pure graphene.

Wireless Power

Intel's wireless power technology involves a setup of two metal arrays -- resembling the rings of a planet -- connected to a power amplifer. The arrays resonate at a certain frequency to establish an energy link, transmitting power from one array to the other.

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Bionic sex chip

The prospect of the chip, which could be a decade away, is emerging from progress in deep brain stimulation, in which tiny shocks from implanted electrodes are given to the brain. The technology has been used in America to treat Parkinson’s disease.

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Chemical learning: Women Can Smell a Man's Sexual Intentions

At least subconsciously, a woman can also tell by the scent of a man's sweat if he's in the mood, according to new research.

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Repulsive Casimir-Lifshitz force verified

Sufficient control of the Casimir Force could enable a breakthrough in space propulsion
and energy extraction from the vacuum and highly efficient energy conversion. It could also make nanoscale machines work better with less or more friction as needed. Ultra-low friction bearing are also very high potential.

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RESEARCHERS MEASURE ELUSIVE REPULSIVE FORCE FROM QUANTUM FLUCTUATIONS

D-Wave

D-Wave is pioneering the development of a new class of high-performance computing system designed to solve complex search and optimization problems, with an initial emphasis on synthetic intelligence and machine learning applications.

D-Wave Systems, a Canadian start-up, claims to have concocted a way of proving that its quantum computer is actually a quantum computer. But to pull off the proof, it needs thousands of people to volunteer spare time on their personal computers.

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Holographic Data Storage

Scientists have harnessed the power of holography to store large amounts of data in a postage stamp-sized disc.

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Beyond WiMAX

Research is already underway into WiMAX’s successor. Like other 802.xx IEEE wireless data systems, WiMAX uses centimeter-range radio waves to carry digital data. In contrast, millimeter-wave technology operates at radio frequencies of between 60 and 100 GHz, giving the waves lengths of 3-5mm. It’s a part of the radio spectrum commonly used for radio astronomy and high-resolution radar systems, and it’s largely unregulated and unused — particularly compared to the crowded, longer wavelength end of the spectrum.

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Medical robotics expert -- the human-machine interface

Jacob Rosen is developing a wearable robotic "exoskeleton" that could enable a person to lift heavy objects with little effort. It's a bit like the robotic armor that has long been a staple of futuristic battle scenes in science fiction books and movies. But what excites Rosen is the device's potential to help people disabled by stroke or degenerative diseases.

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Virtual haptic Sex

The canister-type devices sized to fit easily in one’s lap and is made of soft “Haptic” synthetic material akin to that used for nipples of baby bottles. Real Touch, a belt-driven machine that, when connected to your computer via USB, simulates the mouth, vagina, or anus of a real human.

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State-of-the-Art Biometrics Excellence Roadmap, the FBI initiative

The FBI released on Tuesday a detailed study of the advancement of different kinds of biometrics. Volume Three is still under development.

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Sign-Language Translator

Boston University (BU) researchers are developing a searchable dictionary for sign language, in which any user can enter a gesture into a dictionary's search engine from her own laptop by signing in front of a built-in camera.

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The Comedy of Science

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Restoring organs and body parts

From giving sight to the blind to creating a tongue more accurate than any human taste bud, we are creating the technology.

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Life Nearly Created in Lab

It is non-living, but it has some life-like properties, that are extremely interesting.

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The Terrafugia Transition

The first flying car, equally at home in the sky or on the road, is scheduled to take to the air next month.

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Do-it-yourself 3D movies

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Unconventional Superconductivity

Scientists at U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory used inelastic neutron scattering to show that superconductivity in a new family of iron arsenide superconductors cannot be explained by conventional theories.

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Mobile TV

Sixty-three TV stations plan to roll out mobile TV broadcasting for a new generation of mobile phones, MP3 players, GPS devices and in-car entertainment systems in 2009.

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Applying P2P to traffic control

The Autonet plan would center around ad hoc networks of vehicles and roadside monitoring posts supported by 802.11 technology (the prototype uses 11b). The vehicles would essentially be the “clients” in such a system and feature graphical user interfaces to pass along information to drivers.

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Levitation

U.S. scientists have found a way to levitate the very smallest objects using the strange forces of quantum mechanics.

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A Set of Glasses for Watching a Movie

Personal viewing eye wear — wraparound sunglass-type video-projection goggles that create the illusion of watching a movie on a big screen floating before your eyes.

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NVIDIA GeForce 3D Vision

These wireless 3D glasses charge up in 2 hours for 40 hours of continuous viewing. They work by rapidly alternating the image between your two eyes with slightly different camera angles, fooling your eyes and noggin into thinking you're seeing in 3D.

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Robot Maid

A new experimental home robot unveiled by the University of Tokyo and partner Toyota Motor is designed to clean floors, clear serving dishes, pick up clothing and do a variety of other drudgery that will surely inspire a robot revolution one day.

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Robots all around us

There are now 1 million industrial robots toiling around the world, and Japan is where there are more than any where else. Japan has 295 of these electromechanical marvels for every 10 000 manufacturing workers — almost 10 times the world's average.

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An Islamic Space Agency (ISA)

Dr. Sheikh Muszaphar — a doctor by qualification, an astronaut by training and a model by choice. Now the man is on a mission to establish an Islamic Space Agency (ISA).

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Thermal Memory

Most computers today store memory electronically, by maintaining a certain voltage. In contrast, a new kind of memory that stores data thermally, by maintaining temperature, is being investigated by researchers Lei Wang of the National University of Singapore and the Renmin University of China, and Baowen Li of the National University of Singapore and the NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering.

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NECs Language interpreter for phones

The company says its software can take words spoken into a phone’s mic and translate both ways between Japanese and English in real time without recourse to a network connection to a server, displaying the result as onscreen text.

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The diaper is the Toilet for the next generation of Astronauts

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has teamed up with engineers from the private sector to develop a next-generation space toilet, which they hope to complete within the next five years.

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The Inventive Process

Nothing beats a need to make a new invention!

It Reminds Me Of Dick Tracy!

LG's wrist phone: micro videoconferencing, 007-style!

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Leptin

MIT researchers may have found an obesity treatment that unlocks the fat-fighting promise of leptin, an appetite-suppressing hormone once hailed as the answer to the battle of the bulge.

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Self-Assembling Optics

A group of researchers led by Peidong Yang, a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, have recently created nanoscale particles that can self-assemble into various optical devices. These include photonic crystals, metamaterials, color changing paints, components for optical computers and ultrasensitive chemical sensors, among many other potential applications. The new technology works by controlling how densely the tiny silver particles assemble themselves.

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Enzyme To Neutralize Chemical Weapons

The structure of Phosphotriesterase
Texas A&M University chemist, Dr. Frank Raushel, is contributing to America's war against terror by developing an enzyme that might neutralize a deadly chemical agent, the organophosphates. The organophosphates started their journey as insecticides in the 1930s but soon made their way into the dangerous alleys of chemical warfare during World War II as the basis for deadly nerve agents such as Sarin, Tabun, and Soman.

Phosphotriesterase, which can recognize and destroy the toxicity of a broad spectrum of organophosphate nerve agents.

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Composite Plastic-Metal Conductor

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Applied Materials Research in Bremen, Germany have successfully created a plastic and metal composite conductive material. Cheaper and lighter than traditional metal conductors, this new material could significantly reduce the cost of printed circuit boards as well as decrease their size and weight with particular applications in the automobile and aircraft manufacturing industries.

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Solar Powerd Car

After completing 32,000 miles, passing through 38 different countries and 17 months after he left home, the Swiss teacher, Louis Palmer, has become the first person to travel around the world in a car completely powered by the rays of the sun.

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2008 --186.7 million websites

The Internet was populated with more than 186.7 million websites at the end of 2008, according to data released by Netcraft.

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Regrowing Teeth

In a few years dentists will treat periodontal disease with regeneration by using stem cells to create hard and soft tissue; they will take out a tooth that is about to fall, and reconnect it firmly to the regenerated tissue. Although nobody is predicting when it will be possible to grow teeth on demand, in adults, to replace missing ones, a common guess is five to ten years.

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Jatropha Oil

The atropha is a succulent plant commonly grown in the semi-arid areas of India that produces seeds containing an oil that can be harvested and processed into a biofuel.

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Robot for rescue operations

At the 2008 Tokyo International Fire and Safety Exhibition, the International Rescue System Institute displayed the Kenaf Rescue Robot, a highly mobile robot for use in disaster or emergency rescue situations.

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Solar Powered Car

Toyota Motor Corp is secretly developing a vehicle that will be powered solely by solar energy in an effort to turn around its struggling business with a futuristic ecological car, a top business daily reported Thursday. The Nikkei newspaper, however, said it will be years before the planned vehicle will be available on the market.

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Artificial Photosynthesis

A Japanese research group saw its way clear to the practical application of ruthenium-rhenium (Ru-Re) supramolecular complex as a photocatalyst that uses sunlight to reduce CO2 to CO, which can be used as a chemical engineering material.

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Stem cell therapy reversing brain birth defects

Scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have succeeded in reversing brain birth defects in animal models, using stem cells to replace defective brain cells.
The work of Prof. Joseph Yanai and his associates at the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School was presented at the Tel Aviv Stem Cells Conference last spring and is expected to be presented and published nest year at the seventh annual meeting of the International Society for Stem Cell Research in Barcelona, Spain.

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OpenKnowledge

Most of the web’s potential can’t be tapped via websites and browsers. A smart toolkit crafted by European researchers to unlock those hidden resources has now been tested in three real-world applications.

Eighteen months ago, the EU-funded OpenKnowledge programme set out to provide internet users with a simple set of tools to find and interact smoothly with trustworthy partners across the web.

OpenKnowledge met this challenge by creating a new computer language, crafting smart solutions to the problem of semantic mapping, and finding ways to ensure that partners are reputable.

The researchers packaged these capabilities into an open-source software kernel that is now freely available on their website.

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Making Sound Visible

In an important breakthrough in deciphering dolphin language, researchers in Great Britain and the United States have imaged the first high definition imprints that dolphin sounds make in water.

The key to this technique is the CymaScope, a new instrument that reveals detailed structures within sounds, allowing their architecture to be studied pictorially. Using high definition audio recordings of dolphins, the research team, headed by English acoustics engineer, John Stuart Reid, and Florida-based dolphin researcher, Jack Kassewitz, has been able to image, for the first time, the imprint that a dolphin sound makes in water. The resulting "CymaGlyphs," as they have been named, are reproducible patterns that are expected to form the basis of a lexicon of dolphin language, each pattern representing a dolphin 'picture word.'

Certain sounds made by dolphins have long been suspected to represent language but the complexity of the sounds has made their analysis difficult. Previous techniques, using the spectrograph, display cetacean (dolphins, whales and porpoises) sounds only as graphs of frequency and amplitude. The CymaScope captures actual sound vibrations imprinted in the dolphin's natural environment-water, revealing the intricate visual details of dolphin sounds for the first time.

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CymaScope has applications in many fields, including:
• Speech Therapy
• Vocalist Coaching
• Physics
• Neurological Research
• Musicology
• Anthropology
• Biology
• Zoology
• Cosmology

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Erasable Paper

At the Palo Alto Research Center, scientists are developing a way to print an image that disappears, allowing paper to be used dozens of times.

The experimental printing technology, a collaboration between the Xerox Research Centre of Canada and PARC (Palo Alto Research Center Inc.), could someday replace printed pages that are used for just a brief time before being discarded. Xerox estimates that as many as two out of every five pages printed in the office are for what it calls "daily" use, like e-mails, Web pages and reference materials that have been printed for a single viewing.

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M2M

Motion 2 Move's technology, a physics-level breakthrough, dramatically increases the amount of power that can be generated from kinetic energy. The power is produced by using motion-produced electromagnetic fields that are harvested, converted to electrical energy and stored for use in a variety of scalable applications. The application possibilities span handheld, mobile devices to larger power requirements, such as hybrid vehicles and power systems for industrial use.

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