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It's not often (ever?) that a convention center is anything worth being excited about, but Ireland's new Convention Centre Dublin uses ingenius engineering and an omniscient mother brain to monitor and adjust itself. The result? Zero carbon footprint. Every aspect of the CCD's design has been f
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GenShocks Shock Absorbers Harness Pothole Energy For Better Fuel Consumption
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Cisco Announces Cius 7-Inch HD Android Tablet
Today Cisco has unveiled the Cius, a 7-inch business tablet capable of capturing and displaying high-resolution video among a bevy of other business oriented tasks for which the device is geared. With collaboration and communication portability in mind, the device weighs in at 1.15 pou
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Those who stay in apartments crave for spacious bungalows and those who live in landscaped acres dread the maintenance! So what really is the ideal size for a home? The multi-storey high-rises offer many titillating features and let’s not even get into their crazy architectural style. Offices,![Nvidia GeForce GTX 200 Graphics Cards Makes Your Gaming Rig Officially Outdated [Nvidia]](http://gizmodo.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/06/gtx280.jpg)
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Apparently inspired by Buckminster Fuller's push for domed cities, farmers in Kent, England are building a 220-acre series of connected greenhouses, where nothing will be grown in soil. Instead, nutrient-packed water will be used to grow 1.3 million plants hydroponically. The seven greenhouses will
Gyroscopes the Size of Sand Will Track You Anywhere (Even Underground)
Posted by AceNik on Nov 30, 2010•
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The Israeli Department of Defense has cooked up the world’s smallest gyroscope—powered by lasers and as small as a single grain of sand. The new gyros are sensitive enough to track your position and movements anywhere—no GPS required.
The underlying tech is the same that’s found in aircraft and seafaring ships—minute physical changes are compared to each other, calculating a new position without the need for an external reference point.
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Laser-Powered Helicopter Hovers for Hours
Posted by AceNik on Oct 9, 2010• Email This Post | |
Lasers have recently shown they can down a UAV–but they can also keep the drones up in the air. LaserMotive has kept a 22-gram model helicopter hovering for hours at a time on just a few watts of laser power.
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Intel’s Optical Breakthrough Downloads an HD Film in a Second, Literally
Posted by AceNik on Aug 23, 2010• Email This Post | |
Transfer a song to your phone. Seems pretty fast, right? Now imagine transferring the entire printed catalog of the Library of Congress in a minute and a half. Intel says they’ve got the technology to make it happen (eventually).
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The LIFE Project to Create a Mini Star on Earth with 192 Lasers
Posted by AceNik on Jul 16, 2010• Email This Post | |
Well, this is crazy. The LIFE project at the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has plans to create a mini sun in the lab, one that could create more energy than it takes to create.
Yes, we’re talking about fusion here.
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The Entangled Light Emitting Diode
Posted by AceNik on Jul 8, 2010• Email This Post | |
I don’t know when optical quantum computers are going to arrive, but I sure hope they look like this crazy Toshiba visualization of an Entangled Light Emitting Diode. This new LED type could finally make practical quantum computers possible.
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