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World’s first “Ice touchscreen display” built by Nokia NRC Tempere

November 23, 2010 By Jerry Leave a Comment

Image of Nokia Ice Touch Screen

Researchers from the Nokia Research Center in Tampere, Finland, have turned a wall of ice into a huge interactive touchscreen display. Using infrared emitters and detectors to determine hand location and movement, the team projected images onto the blocks of ice so that users could see flames behind their hands. Happily, users didn’t need to [...]

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Can a Robot make decision ethically?!

November 13, 2010 By Jerry Leave a Comment

EthicalRobot

Robots and other machines equipped with artificial intelligence shoot military targets, distribute cash (think: ATMs), drive cars and deliver medication to patients, to name a few. If people performed these duties, they would be expected to behave in a certain way and follow moral and ethical guidelines. But what about robots? They can’t yet think [...]

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NASA’s EPOXI Spacecraft Shoots Images of “Comet Hartley 2″

November 6, 2010 By Alan Favier 1 Comment

Comet Hartley 2

After a nearly 2.9-billion-mile (4.6-billion-kilometer) voyage, NASA’s EPOXI mission spacecraft has survived its risky rendezvous with comet 103P/Hartley 2 and has beamed back the first close-up images of the comet. This montage of five pictures, for example, shows Hartley 2′s nucleus as the craft was flying toward and under the icy body on Thursday. The [...]

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Smart Flexible “Metaflex” Helps to Develop Invisibility Cloak

November 5, 2010 By Alan Favier Leave a Comment

Scientists at the University of St. Andrews have developed “smart flexible materials” named meta-flex that are made of tiny meta-atoms, which are engineered mixtures of metal and circuit board materials. Invisibility can be achieved by manipulating light, and while metamaterials have previously been produced to manipulate light so that objects are invisible at longer wavelengths, [...]

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UK Scientists Developed “Invisibility Cloak” with Metaflex

November 5, 2010 By George Asad Kamel Leave a Comment

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The researchers at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland found out that the material called “Metaflex” has the ability to manipulate light, which can render objects invisible at longer wavelengths at around 620 nanometers. The material, dubbed Metaflex, has been produced by researchers at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, and once fully [...]

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Gliese 581 G 2010 : First Habitable Exoplanet Discovered in a Habitable or Goldilocks Zone

October 4, 2010 By Alan Favier Leave a Comment

A team of U.S. astronomers have discovered a planet outside our solar, an area called Habitable Zone. The planet located close to the star Gliese 58, about 20 light years from Earth, might similar to our Blue Planet. The planet has been found around the red dwarf star Gliese 581. The planet appears to be [...]

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Indian Computer Scientist of HP Named Vinay Deolalikar Solved the P=NP Problem

August 11, 2010 By Ethan William Leave a Comment

p=np problem solved

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