rj3sp | Shared With: Everyone - May 25 2009 | blogs
Quoted: clipped from www.astroengine.com Deflecting Doomsday Asteroids… and Plundering Themclipped from www.youtube.com With thousands of asteroids, comets and other near-Earth object buzzing by our planet, Jorge Ribas finds out how we can avoid the same fate as the dinosaurs. clipped from www.deepastronomy.com Apophis: The Asteroid That Could Smash Into
rj3sp | Shared With: Everyone - May 24 2009 | blogs
Quoted: clipped from www.wired.com Army Terminators Walk Like Men One of the American military’s leading humanoid robots is Petman. Its job will be to testing chemical protection clothing for the U.S. Army. Petman is being built by Boston Dynamics, famous for its alarmingly lifelike BigDog robotic pack mule. Unlike earlier suit-testing robots, which needed
rj3sp | Shared With: Everyone - May 23 2009 | blogs
Quoted: Clipped from: Moblin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia MoblinMoblin, short for mobile Linux, is an open source project focused on developing software for Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) and other new categories of devices such as netbooks and nettops. Intel launched the Moblin.org site in July 2007 and significantly updated the site in April 2008
rj3sp | Shared With: Everyone - May 21 2009 | blogs
Quoted: Clipped from: TG Daily - GM goes green with hybrid Hummer GM goes green with hybrid Hummer Washington, DC - If you can't beat 'em, join 'em: General Motors is launching an electric Hummer claimed to produce near-zero emissions. Demonstrated to members of Congress yesterday, the Electric Hummer was developed by Raser Technologies and FEV in cooperation
rj3sp | Shared With: Everyone - May 21 2009 | blogs
Quoted: clipped from www.inhabitat.com Wind Turbine Towers Win Metropolis Next Generation Prize! Metropolis Magazine officially announced the winner of their 2009 Next Generation prize! Titled Wind-it, the brilliant project aims to give our existing energy grid a much needed boost by installing wind turbines in ailing electrical transmission towers. clipped
rj3sp | Shared With: Everyone - May 19 2009 | blogs
Quoted: clipped from www.ubergizmo.com iRobot Ember Enrols In The Army It won't be long now before robots become commonplace on the battlefield. clipped from www.upi.com Army orders PackBot tech from iRobot BEDFORD, Mass., May 7 (UPI) -- The U.S. Army has placed an order for iRobot Corp.'s PackBot 510s as part of an indefinite delivery, indefinite
rj3sp | Shared With: Everyone - May 18 2009 | blogs
Quoted: clipped from www.newscientist.com Winged submarine is Ferrari of the depths Meet the Deep Flight Super Falcon, the world’s first production “winged submersible”, pictured here diving off the British Virgin Islands in January. clipped from news.bbc.co.uk Underwater 'flying machine' launched Unlike other submersibles, Mr Hawkes said
rj3sp | Shared With: Everyone - May 17 2009 | blogs
Quoted: clipped from austin.decider.com Brain-eating maggots could save Texas $1 billion, create legions of "zombie ants" From the "brain-eating maggots solve every problem" file (it's a thicker file than you'd imagine): Researchers from UT and Texas A&M's AgriLife Extension Service are looking to curb the destructive behavior of the state's fire ant
rj3sp | Shared With: Everyone - May 16 2009 | blogs
Quoted: clipped from www.physorg.com (PhysOrg.com) -- Prime numbers have intrigued curious thinkers for centuries. On one hand, prime numbers seem to be randomly distributed among the natural numbers with no other law than that of chance. But on the other hand, the global distribution of primes reveals a remarkably smooth regularity. This combination of
rj3sp | Shared With: Everyone - May 16 2009 | blogs
Quoted: clipped from en.wikipedia.org Robo One Robo-One is a robot competition category of bipedal humanoid robots. The first ROBO-ONE contest was held in Japan in 2002 and consisted of an initial judged autonomous "Demonstration" stage, followed by one-on-one matches. Early ROBO-ONE specifications were deliberately minimal to encourage as much participation

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