22/02/2005

Fujitsu Introduces Wireless Shopping Cart System

Consumers can say good-bye to long checkout lines and hello to the new face of retail customer service - the U-Scan Shopper. Developed by Fujitsu Transaction Solutions Inc. in partnership with Klever Marketing, the Fujitsu ...

Ariane 5 technology turns the lights on

Soon we may be able to fill the bath, turn the lights on and play our favourite CD without moving from our chair or pressing a button. Technology, developed by ESA for European spacecraft, is now being used to create small ...

Anti-rollover device for tractors

An Agricultural Mechanisation team from the Department of Rural Projects and Engineering at the Public University of Navarre have designed a new anti-rollover structure for pre-1980 registered tractors. It involves a double ...

Computing a way through the Turing barrier

Mathematicians working in an emerging field somewhere between physics, computer science and philosophy are investigating new ways of ‘computing the incomputable’ which could radically broaden our understanding of the ...

The Wind Is Blowing, The Earth Is Rotating

It will be possible to forecast any natural or social cataclysm by attentively observing the speed of the Earth’s rotation and shift of its poles. The Earth rotates non-uniformly, its poles move, and the rotation axis fluctuates ...

Solar Tadpoles Wave at Astrophysicists

Researchers at the University of Warwick's Department of Physics have gained insight into the mysterious giant dark "tadpoles" that appear to swim towards the surface of the Sun during solar flares - enormous energy releases ...

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