Emo jacket from Philips Labs

Designed to enhance the emotional experience of watching a movie, the emo jacket comprises 64 independent actuators, arranged in 16 groups of 4, across the arms and torso. Eight of these, spaced 6 inches apart and located on each sleeve, can create the illusion of being tapped in several spots.

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Visumotion's 3-D TV

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Visumotion vision: bring glasses-free 3D visualization to mainstream for a broad range of users by applying compelling and intelligent turnkey solutions.

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Reversing Muscular Dystrophy In Dogs

A genetic technique successfully treats Duchenne muscular dystrophy in dogs. The researchers used a novel technique called exon skipping to restore partial function to the gene involved in Duchenne. The study, published in Annals of Neurology, gives hope that a similar approach could work in humans.

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Cold Fusion

Johan Frenje at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an expert at interpreting CR-39 tracks produced in conventional high-temperature fusion reactions, says the team's interpretation of what produced the tracks is valid.

You be the judge...

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Pnictides and Superconductivity

Pnictides have very similar layered structures as the copper-oxygen compounds (known as cuprates), containing alternating layers of FeAs (iron arsenide) compared to alternating layers of CuO (copper oxide) for the cuprates. Both the pnictides and cuprates only become superconducting when significantly "doped" away from an antiferromagnetic parent compound via the addition of impurity atoms.

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Carbohydrate-Based Medicine

Scientists from Germany today reported a major advance toward opening the doors of a carbohydrate-based medicine chest for the 21st Century. Much more than just potatoes and pasta, these carbohydrates may form the basis of revolutionary new vaccines and drugs to battle malaria, HIV, and a bevy of other diseases. Peter H. Seeberger, Ph.D., described development of an automated carbohydrate synthesizer, a device that builds these intricate molecules in a few hours — rather than the months or years required with existing technology.

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Compressive Sensing

Compressive Sensing is a way of sampling and reconstructing an analogue signal at a rate far lower than standard information theory would deem possible. It relies on the fact that most analogue signals have a structure of some kind that can be exploited to reconstruct them. Know this structure and the signal can be reconstructed using a sampling rate that is significantly lower than the Nyquist rate.



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DNA cryptography

DNA computing may not be fast but it is massively parallel. With the right kind of setup, it has the potential to solve huge mathematical problems. It's hardly surprising then, that DNA computing represents a serious threat to various powerful encryption schemes such as the Data Encryption Standard (DES).

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Self-Assembling Photonic crystals

Photonic crystals are, in essence, an exploded view into the world of atomic-scale crystals. Instead of atoms, nanospheres of any number of materials can be arranged into a crystal with patterns on the order of the wavelength of light—about 400nm to 700nm for visible light, although photonic crystals are not limited to these wavelengths. Researchers have created precisely positioned arrays of self-assembling photonic crystals with a little help from semiconductor fabrication technology or capillary action, moving us another step closer to highly integrated devices that use photonic crystals.

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Continuous Monitoring Of The Human Body

The trio of bio-medicine, technology, and wireless communication are in the midst of a merger that will easily bring continuous, 24×7 monitoring of several crucial bodily functions.



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Mussel "glue" and inkjet printers may allow for faster healing from surgeries

Researchers at North Carolina State University found a way to use the mussel glue along with a variation on the inkjet printer to make medical adhesives.

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Robot fish to monitor pollution

A school of mechanical, battery-powered robots in the shape of fish will be released into a Spanish port to help monitor pollution there, scientists said Friday.

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Cajun Crawler

University of Louisiana' Cajun Crawler uses multiple legs instead of wheels.

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Terrafugia flying finally takes first flight

Price: $194,000!

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World’s First Color E-Paper Mobile Terminal - FLEPia

Fujitsu Frontech Limited and Fujitsu Laboratories Limited announced the start of consumer sales in Japan of the world’s first color e-paper mobile terminal, FLEPia, available for purchase from today through Fujitsu Frontech’s online store “FrontechDirect”.

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Odor-Free Clothes

The clothes, developed by Yoshiko Taya and colleagues at the Japan Women's University in Tokyo, were tested by JAXA astronauts during two previous shuttle missions and won rave reviews. In addition to odor control, the clothes are designed to absorb water, insulate the body and dry quickly. They also are flame-resistant and anti-static -- as well as comfortable and attractive.

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Robots that create copies of themselves

Scientists have created a robot that can replicate itself in minutes. The team behind the machine says the experiment shows that self- reproduction is not unique to living organisms. Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

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Turning facial ticks into remote control commands

A wink, a smile or a raised eyebrow can change the music on your iPod or start up your washing machine. The device looks like a normal set of headphones but is fitted with a set of infrared sensors that measure tiny movements inside the ear that result from different facial expressions.

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3-D light system captures fingerprints

The University of Kentucky's Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments is developing a machine that can snap 10 fingerprints in high resolution in less than 10 seconds, without human intervention.

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Military Spy Blimp

Pentagon plans to spend $400 million developing a giant dirigible that will float 65,000 feet above the Earth for 10 years, providing radar surveillance of the vehicles, planes and people below. It is absolutely revolutionary!

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