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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Nano-Wiretap Device Can Probe and Monitor Cells in Real Time
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Saudi Arabia Unveils World's Biggest Clock in Mecca, Hopes to Replace Greenwich with 'Mecca Time'
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God's Number Revealed: 20 Moves Proven Enough to Solve Any Rubik's Cube Position
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GeoEye, DigitalGlobe Get $7 Billion from Intelligence Agency to Implement Next-Gen Satellite Imaging
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Self-Calibrating Micro Machines For Hyper-Accurate Sensors on Chips
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Saudi Arabia Unveils World's Biggest Clock in Mecca, Hopes to Replace Greenwich with 'Mecca Time'
At PopSci we're comfortable with the concept of time travel, but this story is perhaps a bit more than we can wrap our heads around. The Saudi Arabian city of Mecca is building the biggest clock in the world -- a massive 600-metre tower sporting four timekeeping faces
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Google is Flying a Quadcopter Surveillance Robot, Says Drone Maker
There's no question that the future of warfare, espionage, and clandestine operations is moving rapidly toward reliance on drone aircraft. But should citizens grow restless when this technology moves into the private sector? A German drone maker claims Google is
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Flight attendant meltdown recreated by Hong Kong TV station
Who needs cover shots and voiceover when you can digitally re-create the moment? That's what staff at a Hong Kong TV station must have thought when they heard about the US flight attendant who made a hasty exit from his aircraft following an incident with a passenger this week.
Steven Slater,
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God's Number Revealed: 20 Moves Proven Enough to Solve Any Rubik's Cube Position
The world has waited with bated breath for three decades, and now finally a group of academics, engineers, and math geeks has discovered the number that explains life, the universe, and everything. That number is 20, and it's the maximum
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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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Self-Calibrating Micro Machines For Hyper-Accurate Sensors on Chips
Micro electromechanical systems-or MEMS-hold a lot of promise for the future of high tech, but they also have their drawbacks, namely that they aren't very precise. That's because at such small scales there are no standards by which to measure very small forces or distances.
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Reverse-engineering the latest iPhone charger to create a DIY portable battery pack
Remember the Minty Boost, the DIY battery-powered USB charger for your portable devices that fit neatly in an Altoids tin? It was a decent fix for those constantly failing early iPod batteries, but that 2006 incarnation has had to be updated several times to keep up with the changing architectures
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Rumour: New iPod touch to have a front-facing camera
It’s that time of year when the lead-up to the traditional early-September new iPod announcement from Apple is heating up. This results in various theories, rumours and a liberal dash of misdirection as to what we can all expect to hear from the big Apple. There were recent rumblings that
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Video: Play Super Mario Bros. on NES using nothing but eye movements
The people that brought you such fringe DIY projects as the "first-person shooter with real guns" and "driving your car with an iPhone" have
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Reverse-engineering the latest iPhone charger to create a DIY portable battery pack
Remember the Minty Boost, the DIY battery-powered USB charger for your portable devices that fit neatly in an Altoids tin? It was a decent fix for those constantly failing early iPod batteries, but that 2006 incarnation has had to be updated several times to keep up with the changing architectures
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Robonaut Is Getting Ready For His Big Trip to Space
He has been crated up and shipped to Kennedy Space Center. At the Space Station Processing Facility there, he is going to be carefully packed into his SLEEPR -- the Structural Launch Enclosure to Effectively Protect Robonaut.
At over 220 kilograms, the
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Chatroulette plans penis-recognition algorithm to block pervy users
There's something exhilarating about meeting someone new, whether it's in a coffee shop or online. That is, until your new pal pulls a Lyndon Johnson and
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Early-adopting dolphin uses iPad touchscreen to communicate with humans
Steve Jobs promised us the iPad would change our lives, and while it hasn't been all things to all people - what about that front-facing camera, Steve? - the beauty of such a device is that developers (to the extent that Apple will allow them, anyhow) are free to get as creative as they want
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In 2022 World Cup bid, Japan offers to broadcast live, full-scale 3D holographic games on fields worldwide
When Germany hosted the 2006 World Cup, people flocked to public parks, arenas, and sporting stadiums worldwide to watch the games on massive screens at public viewing events. If Japan lands its bid for the 2022 Cup, you may be able to go to your local soccer stadium
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EEG Monitoring Headband Could Track and Catalog Your Emotional Response to Movies
Plenty of human-gadget interfaces can let you control a robot or a computer with your mind. But these communications are command-based -- your PR2 still can't tell whether you're asking it for a beer to celebrate, or to drink away your sorrows. An EEG-based affective computing
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Motorola looking to offer 3D mobile phones
We’ve said it before, but for dramatic effect we’ll say it again: 2010 is the year of 3D. And while TV manufacturers are currently vying for your attention as to why their particular 3D TV flavour is better than the rest, at least one mobile phone manufacturer is looking to bring 3D to
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What's truly new in iPhone 4
Apple, through powers of both good and evil, always finds a way to captivate like no other with their new product launches. But in unveiling the iPhone 4 today, they had an unfamiliar challenge to deal with: a world that has already seen in great detail the new product
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Robots Made Out of Mobile Phones Dance, Cry, Throw Tantrums, and Talk to Each Other
Canadian researchers trying to integrate robots into our lives have come up with a pair of dancing, crying mobile phone 'bots. The robots, called Callo and Cally, are mobile phones with limbs.
Cally stands about 18cm high and walks, dances and mimics human behavior. Callo
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The Five Billionth Device Will Plug Into the Internet Any Day Now
The Internet seems to offer countless chances to win -- "You're Our Lucky 10,000 Visitor!!! Click Here to Claim Your Free iPod!!!" -- but this month you really could be the lucky winner. According to IMS Research, sometime this month the 5
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The iPad's Unexpected, Hidden Peek at the Future of Computing
Apple's redesigned touch-enabled iWork office suite may seem like an afterthought, but more than anything else on the iPad it's indicative of how we'll use computers in the future
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China's Loongson Processor Could Power First Natural-Born Chinese Supercomputer
As technological tensions run high between the U.S. and China these days (see Google's
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Siftables, the Amazing Computerized Toy Blocks, Are Coming To a Store Near You (Hopefully Soon)
Sifteo, makers of Siftables, the ingenious cookie-sized computer blocks that play together in
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Smart Phones Could Use "Magic Lens" to Track Household Power Consumption
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute have a plan to convert smart phones into controllers that
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Creating Mobile Apps With a Point and a Click
Creating mobile applications for Android and the iPhone isn?t just for code-writing geeks anymore
Even
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Google Decides Not to Change the Mobile Game With Nexus One
Google's own Android phone, the Nexus One, looks like an excellent phone--bettering in some ways
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HP Will Market 3-D Printers to the Masses
3-D printing is finally hitting the mainstream. Hewlett-Packard,
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Apple's Tablet Gamble: Do You Want One?
Tomorrow, we'll be in San Francisco to cover Apple's introduction--should the fevered speculation
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Lenovo Skylight Laptop Is a Phone At Heart
A take-anywhere laptop lasts for hours, because it?s a phone at heart
Smartphones already
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