Sunday, 3. August 2008
Topic: Universe - on August 3, 2008 at 8:29:00 PM CEST
Total solar eclipse as seen from an aircraft
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Topic: Universe - on August 3, 2008 at 8:25:00 PM CEST
Solar Eclipse 2008
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Topic: SCIENCE - on August 3, 2008 at 8:21:00 PM CEST
The Brightest, Sharpest, Fastest X-Ray Holograms Yet
The pinhole camera, a technique known since ancient times, has inspired a futuristic technology for lensless, three-dimensional imaging. Working at both the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and at FLASH, the free-electron laser in Hamburg, Germany, an international group of scientists has produced two of the brightest, sharpest x-ray holograms of microscopic objects ever made, thousands of times more efficiently than previous x-ray-holographic methods.
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Topic: GINGER - on August 3, 2008 at 12:42:54 PM CEST
Toyota Announces Segway Killer: The Winglet Personal Transporter
Only a year after taking control of Sony's robotics business, Toyota has come up with a vertical, mechanized scooter (or personal transporter, in future-speak) intended to help people move about in public areas.
Called the Winglet because of its fleet nature, it is the first gadget to duplicate the celebrated, and often mocked, navigation system of Dean Kamen's Segway Transporter: self-balancing through gyroscopic sensors detecting the gentle directional tilts of a rider.
wired.com . zdnet.com . foxnews.com
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