When I was younger I was told a story where a woman had wrecked a kettle by switching it on without any water in. In those days kettle didn’t have all the safety features we have now and the kettle simply burned out. When questioned why it had been switched on without any water [...]
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If this research pans out then we can all look forward to having our brains scanned on a regular basis. All to prevent terrorism of course. On the plus side of course everyone will trigger this alarm as showing pictures of a city which they have associations with or a bomb should elicit strong [...] We now have a touch interface in a roll on form that can be used to cover any surface. It is a thin polymer skin that can detect up to 16 touches at once. And as this picture shows it can be used to cover excising output panels and add touch capability. This [...] I hate exercise. My lifestyle is such that I never get much real exercise and since I left my teens a long way behind I’ve been more into minimal sweating. I do have a few items of gym equipment though although it took me a while to work out the claims made by the [...] Looks like the Iranian people are being helped to access the Internet by the development of a new tool called Haystack. Haystack works by hiding the real destination by encrypting the traffic between the client and Haystacks servers. This stops the Iranian government monitoring the clients browsing habits and then using the recorded sites [...] Researchers have found a new way of repairing damaged nerve connections in mice. OK, still a long way from human use but never the less still a step forward which will bring hope to millions as well as opening new avenues of research in prosthetics and augmentation. Now it seems to me that there [...] It seems Google has quite a challenge on its hands with its project to digitise every book on the internet. I thought that it could simple put an entry for every ISBN number and then digitise them like that until it was up to date and was simply digitising new books. Books without an [...] A wall climbing robot with a difference. ROCR is designed to use a pendalum effect to climb walls. Swinging as a human does from toe hold to toe hold using its tail as a balance and a lever. It can only climb carpeted walls at the moment but plans are afoot to make it [...] Scientists are strange creatures. Able to look at things in ways that ordinary mortals do not. In some cases it can lead to great advancement and we have nuclear power and in others it leads to some sort of insanity and we have the climate change concensus. In this case we have scientists who [...] |
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A robot sorting socks
One of the problems I have every wash is that I end up with one sock over. Every time. I used to make the excuse that the sock matched one from before or that the matching sock was waiting to be washed. However, after a while of leaving the sock by the washing line [...]