The Galileoscope: an ultra-cheap, high-quality telescope for the IYA
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The Galileoscope is a high-quality, low-cost telescope suitable for children and being produced for the International Year of Astronomy. The prototype attracted attention during breakfast at the meeting in Chicago.
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The “GoldenColor Classic” – Upgrade Shenanigans!
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Almost a year ago posted this page with info on his “Golden Color Classic”, with the project stuck at an upgrade to an LC 630 motherboard, I thought my goal of creating a “poor man’s iPod” was dead. What I wanted to accomplish was an elegant mp3 server and Internet radio station that I could [...]
TV Set Dissection
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I have to recommend TV set dissection as a great activity to review physics concepts in electricity and magnetism. It’s great fun! Just keep your eyes out for old clunkers at garage sales – bring them to class, and let the fun begin! My students are required to identify as many electrical components as possible, [...]
A first wireless TV, including food
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Another spectacular product that can be seen at CES 2010 in Las Vegas. Haier, a famous Chinese brand, has unveiled the first TV the world completely stripped wire. Not only does this TV need to be connected to any connection, but in addition it requires no power cable. This TV actually uses a technology wireless [...]
The high-tech unleashes imaginations
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Some will probably remain in the boxes, others will make our lives next year or only in a few decades. But whatever their future innovations emerged last year showing the tracks followed today by researchers and engineers.The inauguration of the first mixed race President of the United States draws two million people in Washington at [...]
Rosetta reveals the nature of the asteroid Steins
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The close views of the asteroid (2867) Steins, obtained with the OSIRIS (Optical, Spectroscopic, and Infrared Remote Imaging System) on Rosetta, have provided extensive new measurements of physical properties of the asteroid main belt.
Nokia is testing the power of a telephone … Coca Cola!
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The Finnish group Nokia has partnered with Chinese designer Zheng Daizie to work on a phone laptop totally green. By replacing the batteries by Coca-Cola, the group wants to end a la pollution
AMD Fusion: launch delayed until 2011
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The chip makers are nervous about a radical overhaul of established patterns. Also the AMD Fusion chip to a new genus, is eagerly awaited by the community PC. The report announced from 2010 to 2011 could make disappointed. On November 25, 2006, AMD foundry CPU slowing from its competitor Intel redeemed his counterpart ATI specializes [...]
We phoned AND an iPhone
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35 years ago the astrobiologists Carl Sagan and Frank Drake sent a message to extraterrestrials using the radio telescope at Arecibo. Wanting to celebrate this anniversary by sending a new message, a member of the Department of Biology MIT had to use an iPhone. It was 35 years ago, when the euphoria of the Apollo [...]
Photovoltaic cells in 3D are more effective
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It was not enough to think. Throughout the day or the movements of its support, a curved surface gets more solar energy a plan. Must still find a way to create small structures with ideal forms. A U.S. team has just successfully with the help … drops of water. For now, the discovery does not [...]
