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  • Pew Internet report reveals what everyone already knows: Teens like to text

    Pew Internet report reveals what everyone already knows: Teens like to text

    Posted on April 20, 2010 | No Comments
    If you've seen a teenager in the last two years, then you've seen a teenager texting. Seriously, I can't think of a situation in the last couple of years where I saw a teenager without a cell phone. The teenagers in my extended family send text messages seemingly all day long, every day. Now the Pew Internet and American Life project has released a pretty comprehensive analysis of teen texting behavior.

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  • Shrimp shells may be used to repair spinal injuries, glass can help rebuild bone

    Shrimp shells may be used to repair spinal injuries, glass can help rebuild bone

    Posted on April 16, 2010 | No Comments
    A report released in the Journal of Experiment Biology today talked about how scientists have discovered a way to use chitosan to repair nerve damage. Keep in mind that chitosan is a material made from the shells of shrimp, and is not that far from the shells of insects.

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  • Researchers trying to find out why baby cries

    Researchers trying to find out why baby cries

    Posted on February 24, 2010 | No Comments
    Ever wonder exactly why the baby is crying? Is he hungry? Is she tired? Does she have gas? Does he need changed? All these questions whirled about in my head whenever junior would wake in the middle of the night and start making noises. Researchers in Japan however, are working to find an answer to the first question, however they haven't made any progress with the followup question, "why aren't that baby's parents making him be quiet?"

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  • NASA testing helicopter airbags – sounds like fun!

    NASA testing helicopter airbags – sounds like fun!

    Posted on December 9, 2009 | No Comments
    So, big problem with flying in a helicopter: if you crash, you're screwed. It's not like a jet, where you can eject (for obvious reasons), and it's not like helicopters are designed with a crumple zone. For this reason, NASA has been testing a possible solution that utilizes an airbag-type system.

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  • U.S. Air Force using the PS3 for ‘urban surveillance’ research

    U.S. Air Force using the PS3 for ‘urban surveillance’ research

    Posted on December 9, 2009 | No Comments
    A few weeks ago word got out that the U.S. Air Force had purchased 2,200 PS3s to throw into a supercomputing cluster. The cell-powered PS3s are to be used for research in “urban surveillance,” what that is.

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  • Motorola invests in Anywhere Multitouch technology

    Motorola invests in Anywhere Multitouch technology

    Posted on December 3, 2009 | No Comments
    It's been awhile since we heard anything from Sensitive Objects, the French firm that developed Anywhere Multitouch, the platform that uses piezoelectric sensors to extend touch sensitivity beyond the display to the entire device. Well, we thought it was a pretty sweet idea -- and apparently Motorola did as well. According some spicy and exotic PR, Moto's investing some of its hard-earned cash in the company, which began as a project by the French Science National Research Center. As Reese Schroeder, managing director of Motorola Ventures, put it: "Natural user interface (NUI) and in particular interacting with a device through touch is an area of rapid development and great excitement. Sensitive Object provides an innovative and unique approach allowing new ways of interaction. We're most excited to be involved in their growth and success." One has to wonder what kind of new and innovative handset interfaces are coming around the bend -- and one has to wonder what kind of havoc it will cause when you put one of these "anywhere multitouch" phones in your pocket without locking it first. Luckily, the technology is said to be cheaper to implement than the other touchscreen solutions currently available -- so if these guys get their way, we might be accidentally calling our ex-girlfriends with the whole device very soon indeed. PR after the break.

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  • Researchers creating a nuclear powered battery

    Researchers creating a nuclear powered battery

    Posted on October 7, 2009 | No Comments
    Man has long been on a quest for a better battery. This has resulted in some less then ideal solutions, such as the potato battery (it was half baked) and the onion battery (too smelly). Finally, researchers at the University of Missouri have developed a smaller, more efficient, and hopefully radiation free nuclear battery.

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  • New technology will detect chemical weapons in seconds

    New technology will detect chemical weapons in seconds

    Posted on October 5, 2009 | No Comments
    In the never-ending battle to protect our freedoms, detecting chemical agents and illegal drugs remains a top priority. Luckily, the smart people at Queen's University in Belfast have just come up with a new way that will provide instant results, and won't be something that can be tricked by covering scents or other materials. Now you definitely won't be able to bring back those (purely for fun) explosives back into the states, even if you have them safely hidden in your shoe.

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  • Only the suits stand between you and 100GB Blu-ray discs

    Only the suits stand between you and 100GB Blu-ray discs

    Posted on September 11, 2009 | No Comments
    Sharp (yes Sharp, I was surprised too) is working on developing an improved version of the current technology use to read and write Blu-ray discs. By changing the way the discs are made, and improving the laser, Sharp has been able to increase the maximum capacity of the Blu-ray disc to 100GB, from the current standard of 50GB.

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  • White-Fi brings WiFi to unlicensed TV spectrum

    White-Fi brings WiFi to unlicensed TV spectrum

    Posted on August 28, 2009 | No Comments
    uhfThe terribly named "White-Fi" is a research effort to bring WiFi transmission to the unlicensed TV spectrum -- the so-called "whitespace" (get it? White-Fi!) of TV channels in the UHF band . Big whoop, right? Well, with transmission ranges up to 1 kilometer, that actually is a pretty big deal. Mesh networking is also in the works. But most interesting of all are the requirements that the FCC has imposed on White-Fi devices to make sure they don't interfere with any television broadcasts or wireless microphones. Basically, any White-Fi device needs to immediately switch frequencies the instant it detects a signal from a television or microphone.

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