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DOMK Receives Confirmation That 1st “SolaPad” Units Are Being Prepared for Shipment
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New Autodesk SketchBook Ink App Delivers Stunning Creative Tools for iPad
24 May 2012 12:59 PM | No CommentsSAN RAFAEL, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK) launched Autodesk SketchBook Ink for iPad paint and drawing app, the latest release from the company’s popular SketchBook...
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Vegas Tech Start Up Questionable LLC Launches Questionable Friends iPhone App
23 May 2012 4:53 PM | No CommentsLAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Questionable™ today introduced Questionable Friends™ for iPhone®. Questionable Friends lets you send questions to your contacts and provides instant feedback as questions are answered. Answers can be ...
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Sidecar Revolutionizes Phone Calls by Bringing “Smart Calling” to Smartphones
22 May 2012 12:00 PM | No CommentsSAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Launching today, Sidecar (www.sidecar.me) is a new mobile app that brings Smart Calling to smartphones. Smart Calling allows people to share live See What I See video, brilliant ...
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TransCore Launches Mobile iPad App for TransSuite Traffic Management System
21 May 2012 12:00 PM | No CommentsWASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Intelligent Transportation Society of America Annual Meeting – TransCore brings the ease of mobile computing to its TransSuite® advanced traffic management system (ATMS), launching its iPad® ...
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Nasa Archive
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Mother Russia plans to save us all from killer asteroid
Posted on December 30, 2009 | No Comments
Someone call Bruce Willis. Russia announced Wednesday that they are considering launching a spacecraft with the intention of altering its possibly earth-crushing trajectory to a less threatening one.
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It’s a pen! It’s a bullet! It writes upside down and underwater! It’s a bullet pen!
Posted on December 29, 2009 | No Comments
My penmanship is withered chicken scratch thanks to years of paperless endeavors, but this bullet pen looks intriguing for the two or three times each year that I need to write something down on paper.
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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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CrunchGear Week in Review: New Moon, Now With Water Edition
Posted on November 15, 2009 | No Comments
Here are some stories from the past week on CrunchGear.
CrunchGear wants to kiss you this Holiday
NSMB Super Skills Trailer
Thanko’s USB powered, Dinosaur foot-shaped slipper keeps your feet warm
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Daily Crunch: Water Pixi Edition
Posted on November 14, 2009 | No Comments
Palm Pixi Review: Not for everyone, but it fits a niche
NASA: We found water on the Moon
Japan to operate solar energy station in outer space
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NASA: We found water on the Moon
Posted on November 13, 2009 | No CommentsWell, well. It looks like the Moon bombing went well as NASA just released a whole lot of data supporting the initial findings that there’s water on the Moon. Read NASA’s take and view a whole lot of line graphs I don’t understand at NASA.gov. Next up, moonQuest DSV. -
NASA turns iPhone into chemical sensor, can an App Store rejection be far away?
Posted on November 13, 2009 | No CommentsFiled under: Apple, Accessories
People have been trying to turn cellphones into medical and atmospheric scanners for some time now, but when it's NASA stepping up to the plate with a little device to monitor trace amounts of chemicals in the air, it's hard to not start thinking we might finally have a use for all those tricorder ringtones. Developed by a team of researchers at the Ames Research Center led by Jing Li, the device is a small chip that plugs into the bottom of an iPhone and uses 16 nanosensors to detect the concentration of gasses like ammonia, chlorine, and methane. To what purpose exactly this device will serve and why the relatively closed iPhone was chosen as a development platform are mysteries we're simply not capable of answering. Damn it, man, we're bloggers not scientists!
[Via Gizmodo]NASA turns iPhone into chemical sensor, can an App Store rejection be far away? originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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NASA wants everyone to know the world will not end in 2012, m’kay?
Posted on November 10, 2009 | No Comments
Listen, I don't care if you heard it from John Cusack that the world will explode from a global apocalypse on December 21, 2012. He's wrong and a bad actor. NASA, home of the smartest government employees, is going out of its way to inform everyone that they will still have to pay off those credit card bills in 2013. Sorry.
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Mobiado’s Grand 350 Pioneer is fit for an extraterrestrial
Posted on October 23, 2009 | No CommentsFiled under: Handsets, Others, Symbian, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS
Say your phone is accidentally lost in the void of space, never to be seen or touched by a human being again. Wouldn't it be comforting to know that any alien creature coming in contact with it a hundred, a thousand, or a million years from now would be able to deduce that you come in peace? With luxury phone maker Mobiado's latest version of the Grand 350, finally, you have that option available to you. As its name suggests, the 350 Pioneer is some sort of oddly-conceived tribute to NASA's Pioneer missions that features an engraving similar to the ones launched on its early craft; it describes our solar system, Earth's orientation within it, and basically tries to let your foreign friend know that you mean no harm using diagrams alone. The out-of-this-world spec sheet doesn't end there, though: you also get a meteorite embedded behind the display's sapphire crystal and etched text on the side letting everyone know your commitment to supporting the Pioneer program in as gaudy a way as possible. The Nokia E71-based phone is limited to just 37 examples, so you'd better get in line now -- and don't forget your space suit.
[Via Mobile Phone Helpdesk]Mobiado's Grand 350 Pioneer is fit for an extraterrestrial originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:38:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Good news: NASA did not blow up the Moon with the LCROSS
Posted on October 9, 2009 | No Comments
Just a few minutes ago at 7:13:19 AM EDT, NASA crashed a probe into the Moon at 5,600 MPH with the hope of finding water. BOOM!
NASA broadcasted the entire thing live on its TV station and online, but if you missed our previous post and just learned about the event, you probably didn't catch it. However, the NASA geeks are currently analyzing the LCROSS data and will hopefully announces their findings at the 10 AM EDT scheduled press event. In the mean time, go tell your wackjob neighbor that the Moon is still in the same ol' spot and there isn't a conspiracy to mess with the tides. Crazies. Gotta love 'em.
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Astronomy service Slooh will let you watch the LCROSS impact live on October 9
Posted on October 6, 2009 | No Comments
Slooh, a service that offers unfettered access to two huge earth-based telescopes, is inviting folks to watch the LCROSS impact on Friday at 4:30am PDT or 7:30am EDT. The feed begins at 3:30am PDT.
The Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite will hit the moon to created a crater 14 meters in diameter and 2 meters deep. The resulting analysis will help assess how large bodies will damage planets along with an assessment of current water levels in the moon. Plus it involves blowing holes in the moon.
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Get ready for the LCROSS lunar impact this Friday
Posted on October 6, 2009 | No CommentsBe sure to set your alarm clock for around 6am this Friday, for at 6:15am NASA will, in the immortal words of Matt Drudge, “bomb the moon.” No, we're not talking about some dumb Hollywood (redundancy alert!) scenario, but the most exciting part of the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) program: the lunar impact.
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Just think of everything you could do with this NASA Omni-Hand prototype
Posted on September 30, 2009 | No CommentsFor only $22,500 you can own the robotic hand shown in the video above. That’s nothing for a piece of NASA history. This impressive early prototype demands an important place within robotics history as the first motorized dexterous robotic hand. It represents one of the early steps towards making robots more anthropomorphic. The Omni-Hand was designed [...] -
NASA announces a contest to choose the next contest
Posted on September 29, 2009 | No Comments
Apparently you don't have to be a rocket scientist to help NASA. The space agency just posted a request for suggestions for future prize contests on their website, and anyone may submit an idea.
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This is how you transport a 510 ton object (slowly and with a giant land barge)
Posted on September 25, 2009 | No CommentsSimply amazing. I had no idea that such a transportation vehicle existed for standard roads. But sure enough, Fagioli manufactures the beast and calls it a Self Propelled Modular Transporters (SPMTs). The SPMTs uses hydraulic drive motors mounted on the axles and cruises along at an average of 5km/hr. The modular platform can be configured to meet [...]