8/18/2006

New Israeli Computerized Airport Interrogator


An Israeli Company, Suspect Detection Systems Ltd, has devised a new biometric screening technology that has been tested by the U.S. Transportation Security Administration. It combines artificial-intellegence, algorithms and polygraph / lie detector concepts into one computerized interrogator!!!
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8/11/2006

HP develops tiny wireless memory chip


Compter giant Hewlwtt-Packard has developed a wireless computer chip the size of a grain of rice. Developed by the Memory Spot research team at HP, the chip is 2-4mm square. Current versions can hold up to 512 kilobytes of data, store 100 pages of text and are capable of swapping data using wireless transmission!!!
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7/28/2006

Amazon.com Founder plans to build spaceport in Texas.


The Founder and CEO of Amazon.com has created a new Company called Blue Origin. Blue Origin has applied to build a launch site for its planned New Shepard space rocket about 25 miles north of Van Horn, Texas.!!!
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7/21/2006

Tesla Motor's Tesla Roadster 100% Electric Sportscar


Tesla motors has developed the next generation of electric car, the Tesla Roadster. This 100% electric vehicle is capable of going from 0 to 60 in about 4 seconds and has a top speed of over 130 MPH with a range of 250 miles!!!
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7/14/2006

Bigelow Sucessfully Expands 1/3 Scale Inflatable Space Hotel Module


Bigelow Aerospace, a major contender in the commercial space industry, has successfully launched and expanded their 1/3 scale inflatable space habitat. Also - Send a picture or object to space and more!!!
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7/07/2006

US Navy Railguns


The United States Navy is funding two contracts to the tune of 14.7 million dollars to develop an Electromagnetic railgun for use on navy vessels.
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Plastics from sugar and Global Warming


University of Wisconsin scientists discover way to create plastics from fructose.

Also...

Al gore's gripping film entitled, An Inconvenient truth, which details the current state of global warming on planet earth, has received rave reviews from viewers and scientists alike. Climatologists have praised the film for its scientific accuracy.
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6/23/2006

Surviving a Robot Rebellion


Daniel H. Wilson, from the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, has written a book entitled "How To Survive a Robot Uprising - Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion."
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6/15/2006

Robots with a sense of touch!


Researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have created an artificial touch sensor as sensitive as a human fingertip.
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5/26/2006

Masten Space offers $99 spots on its flights


For $99 anyone can send a payload into space through this newly emerging suborbital space launch service. Masten Space Systems’ new “CanSats To Space” payload program will carry 350 gram, “soda can” sized payloads into space and back.
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5/20/2006

Military Robotics in Nigeria and India


Prime Minister of India anounces production of cutting edge technology weapons. Nigeria ordering robotic patrol vehicles to defend coastline.
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5/12/2006

International scientists discover new genus of African monkey


Team discovers first new genus in 83 years in Tanzania.
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Two mathematicians propose cloaking device concept


Nicolae Nicorovici and Graeme Milton claim that placing certain objects close to a superlens could render them invisible.
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4/18/2006

Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs)


University of Southern California team develops the next generation of super-thin, flexible lighting.
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4/09/2006

Successful Transplant of Grown Organs!


Researchers from Wake Forest University School of Medicine successfully transplant bladders into seven people. The Bladders were grown from each of the patients' tissue.
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3/31/2006

Ist Brazilian astronaut & new crew head for ISS


Russion craft heads for station with 2 new ISS crewmembers and the first ever Brazilian astronaut. Also - X-37 / White Knight drop test.
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3/23/2006

UTD's NanoTech Institute creates powerful artificial muscles


Nanotechnologists from the University of Texas, Dallas have created artificial muscles 100 times more powerful than natural muscles that may lead to advances such as morphing aircraft, exoskeletons with super-human strength and more.
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Things That Are in Danger of Vanishing

A ban of selling many of the electric appliances that were produced and sold before 2001 will start on the 1st of April, 2006 in Japan. Because of the Electric Appliance & Materials Law.
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3/17/2006

Sandia Labs Creates 2 Billion Degrees+ Plasma


Sandia uses the Z Machine to create plasma hotter than the interior of stars.
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