Those of us RTS fans who have played Homeworld might be familiar with the scope of resource gathering from asteroids. However, this time it is not just about the mere ambit of science fiction and video games. ‘About to’ start up company Planetary Resources is already co...
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Dolby Labs has announced a new sound system named as Atmos, which intends to make your listening experience more real and astounding in cinemas. It will employ 64 speaker feeds with some even placed above your head apart from the traditional ones placed to your left and right. The configuration would give very realistic sound...
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You might have seen the Guerrilla warfare techniques in one of those Viet-war movies.The army men covering their faces with mud and hiding in the marshes. Many prisoners succeed every year in breaking the security despite of tight security and a number of cameras employed to monitor the surroundings, thanks to their stealth s...
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GGlab has come up with a 3D printer that can be employed in your kitchen to achieve unmatchable finesse in your cookery. Presented at the recent Milan Design Week 2012 the printer is the idea of Spanish architect, José Ramon Tramoyeres and Deniz Manisali.
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Facial recognition, fingerprint scanner and eye scan are commonly used when it comes to securing passwords that can not be faked. But, forget these as the researchers are devising ways to use brain waves and heartbeats to recognize people. Strange, but its true.
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A new medical breakthrough by British scientists in collaboration with German engineers might lead to treatment of patients with severely injured limbs suffering devastating loss of sensation. Computer generated implants have been designed that rewires the nerve themselves that could improve the chances of restoring feelings ...
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The Remote Mars Yard or ReMY is an incredible project that will let you enjoy the experience of operating a Mars rover. There is virtually no chance that you may run a real rover on Mars. But this Kickstarter project by a pair of Polish space enthusiasts is an attempt to replicate a Mars surface and rovers on it. Users can op...
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Everyone will be excited to sight an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) in the sky. But here is an artificial unusual flying object (UFO, again) from a German firm Festo. The design called the SmartInversion is a helium-stuffed object that can fly in the air on commands from your smartphone or tablet. The object really glides t...
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Space colonization has been a popular concept in science fiction. With fleets and spaceships travelling across galaxies and exploring new planets with conditions that possibly offer humans a chance to inhabit it has been a concept that Hollywood and television have taken to a whole new level. But do we have the capability to ...
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There is nothing new with a lunar globe, because there are a lot of them out in stores. But the Sky & Telescope has recently surfaced a moon globe with some peculiarity. What makes the S&T’s lunar globe different is that it is made with actual images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC). It is ...
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