An elderly Chinese woman wearing a headset concentrates intensely on a small foam ball and it begins to rise slowly into the air.
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May 02, 2013
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Jan 30, 2013
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Jan 11, 2013
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May 23, 2013
What are card beams, you may ask? They are the building toy that allows you to build gravity-defying houses of cards with the help of friction, gravity, and two types of beams - the cap and the connector.
May 21, 2013
A high-tech startup is wading into the gun control debate with a cellphone controller that would allow gun owners to know when their weapon is being moved—and disable it remotely.
May 21, 2013
(Phys.org) —Two tech talents, formerly employees at video game publisher Valve, have been working on their own vision in the form of game-ready glasses. Their company, Technical Illusions, will seek to ...
May 21, 2013
(Phys.org) —A team of European researchers working at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland has created an artificial compound eye that is comparable to those in insects such ...
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Mannequins in riot gear, armoured cars and drones line a police equipment and "anti-terrorism technology" trade fair in Beijing as vendors seek to profit from China's huge internal security budget.
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ok wait, so toymakers are putting this on their toys now, yet I still cant think things to my PC and have them happen (commercially). WTF!!
OK... I have read this a few times now... Is Tim Sheridan an old Chinese woman?
She doesn't look Chinese and she has a beard. Besides Tim Sheridan doesn't sound like a Chinese woman's name.
I am so confused...
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