We've seen robotic exoskeletons before -- there's Lockheed's HULC that's designed to augment soldier performance, and then there's Raytheon's XOS that's more like an actual Iron Man suit -- but this one is different. REX, the Robotic
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Image: Calls From Down Under Paul Gardner-Stephen (left) talks with a colleague in the Australian Outback using his new Serval system, which turns any Wi-Fi enabled phone into a mesh network router.
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Liquid armor has been shown to stop bullets more effectively than plain Kevlar, according to British firm BAE Systems. The material could be used to make thinner, lighter armor for military personnel and police officers,
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The vast amount of information at our fingertips these days can be as distracting as it is useful. Tracking something like the movement of an index on the stock market by feverishly checking a ticker all day is often more than you want to deal with. So this cube lets you display data it receives
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It's not exactly rocket science, but the same company that builds the rocket boosters that launch the Space Shuttles into orbit has a novel idea for bringing down the cost of carbon capture. Aerospace and defense company ATK wants to pressurize the exhaust emissions
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In celebration of Iran's Day of Industry and Mine on Saturday, President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad unveiled Sorina 2, the nation's second robotic man.
Sorina 2, created at Tehran University, is designed to walk like a human, with 12 degrees
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Schwarzenegger's Terminator memorably thrashed and crawled onward towards its victims even after its robotic limbs had been mutilated by explosions and crashes. Now, a German research team is trying to bring that ability to the robots of today, looking at how three-legged
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An effort to help blind people drive cars has reached an important step -- driver awareness systems are now being integrated into a mass-production vehicle. Blind drivers will test-drive a specially outfitted Ford Escape in January at Daytona International Speedway, team
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Your beer can tell you where you've been, according to a new study by researchers in Utah. No, not because of the strength of your hangover -- it's all about chemistry.
Beer,
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Meet your friendly neighborhood Spider-Kid! It's the stuff of childhood dreams, right? A boy in Cambridge, England, can climb the walls just like his favorite superhero.
OK, Vacuum-Boy's powers are slightly less subtle than Peter Parker's. But
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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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We've seen robotic exoskeletons before -- there's Lockheed's HULC that's designed to augment soldier performance, and then there's Raytheon's XOS that's more like an actual Iron Man suit -- but this one is different. REX, the Robotic
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As unlikely as it might be that we're sending warm thoughts to Germany over the World Cup, we have to admit that news that they've figured out a way to block the vuvuzela howl is music to our ears.
The plastic stadium horn, blown by World Cup fans to celebrate such
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Detecting explosives, whether they're tucked into the roadside rubbish on a narrow street in Helmand Province or stashed in someone's undergarments at the airport, can be difficult to do. But UK researchers have developed a potent new tool for sniffing out combustible
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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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Regardless of where you fall in the Plasma versus LCD screen-preference debate, it’s difficult to deny the popularity and progression of the LCD display. But perhaps the scariest reality of owning an LCD screen—even scarier than the dreaded appearance of dead pixels—is physical damage
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Video gamers and warfighters alike will appreciate this stunning first-person-shooter view of a Dutch marine boarding team taking back a German merchant ship from Somali pirates. It's not hard to imagine many more soldiers of the future equipped with cameras so that commanders can have multiple
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Most of us keep our music on our computers and our computers are increasingly mobile, but there's a disconnect between the ability to store large amounts of music on a laptop and the portability of said laptop: laptop speakers aren't worth playing music on. But a clever
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Remember that groundbreaking Apple Super Bowl ad from 1984? The one where the woman throws a hammer at Big Brother, signifying a new era of freedom that would be ushered in with Macintosh? My, how times have changed. Here we are more than 25 years later and the despotic,
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An effort to help blind people drive cars has reached an important step -- driver awareness systems are now being integrated into a mass-production vehicle. Blind drivers will test-drive a specially outfitted Ford Escape in January at Daytona International Speedway, team
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At last, an enviable media centre solution arrives Down Under
Australia is quite
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An easy way to understand or explain the National Broadband Network
As many of you are probably
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Is this a match made in digital heaven?
For a long time after laptops first hit the
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What better way to let the world know how much you love games?
In Australia, gaming
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Expand your Blu-ray library and support a worthy cause
The hairy-upper-lip festivities that
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Now you can use mobile internet with multiple devices
Connecting to the internet
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Impressive Logitech Guitar Hero ?instruments? ship with an equally impressive cost
It?s
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Buy a Panasonic home theatre and receive a year?s worth of Blu-ray rentals
The silly season
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The rumour mill fires up once again
With the not-so-long ago release of Mac OS X Snow Leopard
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Solidifying some fairly fresh rumours for new iMac, Mac Mini and Macbook models
With the birth of
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