New release Dyson fans designed for larger spaces
Dyson's award-winning fan range has expanded to add two new members to its stable. With the same bladeless technology as existing
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New release Dyson fans designed for larger spaces
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'Monster Chess' Autonomously Puts You in Check With Massive Lego Robot Pieces
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Chinese Researchers Tap Quantum Noise to Generate Randomness at Record Rates
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Novel Cloth Material Designed to Counter Bio-Attacks Can Absorb, Detoxify Crude Oil
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Video: French Robot Troupe Dances in Unison at Shanghai Expo
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Liquid Mirror Breakthrough Could Make State-of-the-Art Optics Cheap
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NREL Improves On Swamp Cooler Tech to Create 90 Percent More Efficient Air Conditioner
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'Monster chess' autonomously puts you in check with massive lego robot pieces
Ever since we taught them how to play, the machines have been trying to beat us at chess -- and succeeding. But where it took a closet-sized computer running a complicated computer program to beat
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Chinese researchers tap quantum noise to generate randomness at record rates
There's a race brewing between Chinese and American researchers, but this one has no weapons or spheres of influence or even space -- though it does involve lasers. It's a race to generate the most
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Novel cloth material designed to counter bio-attacks can absorb, detoxify crude oil
It's easy not to think much about oil spill remediation technology until something like the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster happens, but materials scientists spend a lot of time thinking about how different materials respond to all kinds of offending substances. In
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Where style meets tech: clothes that wear your iPad
With a background in computer science and fashion design, Sydneysider Davina Reichman may be uniquely qualified to launch the country's first wearable iPad clothing range.
Dubbed iClothing by Reichman and her creative partner, fashion
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Video: French robot troupe dances in unison at Shanghai Expo
A troupe of dancing robots made its official debut Monday at the ongoing Shanghai 2010 Expo, wowing viewers with synchronized ballet-like movements.
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Algorithm helps researchers see visual intelligence in a different light
For a species so steeped in visual information, humans actually aren't very good at picking up on change. But a new computer-based model is shedding light on what we see and what we don't
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Liquid mirror breakthrough could make state-of-the-art optics cheap
A $136 million Earth-based telescope using brand new adaptive optics just trumped Hubble's deep space image clarity three-fold, but such high tech optics aren't just reserved for high-dollar observatories. A breakthrough in deformable liquid mirror technology
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Kinect: good with kids, bad with couches
Microsoft's Kinect, the controller-free, gesture-based gaming platform that finally saw an official unveiling at E3 this week continues to surprise us, but not always necessarily in good ways. For instance, we think it's awesome that the non-peripheral peripheral can
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NREL improves on swamp cooler tech to create 90 percent more efficient air conditioner
When it comes to home comforts, few inventions can beat the air conditioner for its ability to help us tolerate the dog days of summer. The problem is, when it comes to energy-guzzlers, few inventions can beat the air conditioner.
But the US National Renewable
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Quantum Broadband Network is So Secure It's Unbreakable (in Theory)
In the world of IT, it really doesn't matter how much data you can transmit if you can't send it safely and securely. Now, Toshiba researchers in the UK have created the first high-speed network connection that is theoretically
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To locate underground threats, Lockheed scans subterranean gravity signatures
Having had limited success catching America's enemies by "smoking them out of their holes," Lockheed Martin and the DoD are turning to an airborne sensor-based platform to map the subterranean world and
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US Aviation Administration exploring possibilities of unmanned commercial flight
The US Federal Aviation Administration wants you to fly the robot-friendly skies, but the regulatory overseer has more than a few challenges to overcome before it can extend that invitation in earnest. The FAA
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BlackBerry wants you to forget iPhone 4 and carry the Torch instead
With so much hullabaloo recently over the not-so-long-ago release of the iPhone 4 (particularly here in Australia), it’s no wonder that other smartphone manufacturers would be racing to ensure that you haven’t forgotten that there are other options out there. It just so happens that BlackBerry,
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Video: insect-like pincers allow flying swarmbots to perch on nearly any surface
A swarm of buzzing dragonfly bots passes overhead. Suddenly, they make a kamakaze dive toward a nearby tree--but wait a minute, instead of crashing and careening to the ground, they're sticking to the tree. Resting, recharging, waiting for orders. All thanks to Mirko
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GeoEye, DigitalGlobe Get $7 Billion from Intelligence Agency to Implement Next-Gen Satellite Imaging
The next generation of hi-res satellite imaging technology is on the way, at least if the United States government has anything to
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'Monster chess' autonomously puts you in check with massive lego robot pieces
Ever since we taught them how to play, the machines have been trying to beat us at chess -- and succeeding. But where it took a closet-sized computer running a complicated computer program to beat
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Video: Robotic Wheelchair Can Be Set to Automatically Follow A Human
Japanese researchers, never at a loss for concepts mashing up domestic and medical care with the best in robotics, has developed a robotic wheelchair that automatically
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Nano-Wiretap Device Can Probe and Monitor Cells in Real Time
A new nano-scale wiretap device could tell researchers about the inner workings of cells, according to a new Harvard study.
It involves a transistor that can take electrical
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HP Designjet 3D Printer Now On Sale, Churns Out Solid Plastic Objects From the Desktop
Remember back in January when HP announced it would bring a tabletop 3-D printer to market, at a place and time to be named later? That place and time just
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Pioneer Produces Crysis-killing Laptop
Forget sourcing and designing custom-built laptops on foreign websites. Pioneer Australia is offering an accessible high-end laptop solution.
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BudsgoBlue: A Cordless iPhone Headset Solution
Cordless Bluetooth headphones and an iPhone 3GS Voice Control solution rolled into one.
A
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AMD Ups the Multi-core Ante with a Six-core Processor
AMD wants you to forget about Intel?s four-core processing power: six-core is on the way
The
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Intel Talks Chips
The world?s first 22nm chips announced for a 2011 release
As some of you may well
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Project Pink Pictures Leak
Pictures of Microsoft?s new model phone make their way online
Secrecy is important
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Sony Reveals PS3 Motion Controller
And yet another next-gen related console rumour solidifies
Motion control technology
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Sydney iPhone Speed Test
A face-off between Telstra, Optus, Vodafone and Three, with one clear winner
Sydney
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New Logitech Mouse Tracks on Glass and Shiny Surfaces
To boldly track where no laser mouse has tracked before
Mouse technology has come quite
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Xbox 360 802.11n Wireless Adapter Confirmed
The rumour train has finally left the station and the confirmation carriage just pulled in
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New BIOS Starts Loading Windows in Under Two Seconds
It?s so fast that if you blink, you may miss it
The Intel Developer Forum (IDF) may
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