News tagged with design
Oregon may build nation's first tsunami evacuation structure
Residents of a small Oregon coastal community are moving closer to the creation of something that's never before been built in the United States - a structure designed specifically to withstand a major earthquake ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 24, 2010 |
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Mini-projectors -- maximum performance
(PhysOrg.com) -- The number of mini-projector devotees keeps growing. The combination of a new kind of optical structure with high-performance LEDs enables completely new compact and brilliant lighting and ...
May 20, 2010 |
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The changing typography of the web
Since the World Wide Web's earliest days, whether you were shopping on Amazon or researching on Google or catching up on news, chances are you were looking at just one of four typefaces -- Arial, Verdana, Georgia or Times ...
May 13, 2010 |
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Gadgets: Energizer battery charger is 'smart'
In the 1960's family television series "The Addams Family," Uncle Fester used to put a light bulb in his mouth and it illuminated, demonstrating ability to generate power. These days this would come in very ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
May 13, 2010 |
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Iowa State engineers design power structures that help keep the lights on
(PhysOrg.com) -- Iowa State University engineers are developing new and improved poles to carry electricity across the countryside. They say the new structures -- which can bend and deflect an extreme load ...
May 11, 2010 |
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Rice team talks the walk
Walk this way and a camera-carrying robot will follow. That sounds simple until you get into the details.
May 05, 2010 |
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Omni-focus video camera to revolutionize industry
University of Toronto announced a breakthrough development in video camera design. The Omni-focus Video Camera, based on an entirely new distance-mapping principle, delivers automatic real-time focus of both ...
May 04, 2010 |
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Samsung Ships First Multi-chip Package with a PRAM Chip for Handsets
Samsung Electronics today announced the industry's first multi-chip package (MCP) with PRAM - for use in mobile handsets, beginning later this quarter
Apr 28, 2010 |
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PETMAN robot to closely simulate soldiers (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A freely walking biped robot the size and shape of a human being is being developed to realistically simulate a soldier wearing protective clothing.
Apr 27, 2010 |
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Intel Shares Vision for the Future
At its developer conference today, Intel Corporation demonstrated how the company is providing a foundation on which to build common hardware, software and ecosystem solutions to make computing experiences and devices work ...
Apr 14, 2010 |
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Researchers analyze implications of 'intelligent design' for human behavior
Although evolutionists and creationists strongly disagree about the role that intelligent design plays in the origins of bodies and brains, they curiously agree about the role that intelligent design plays in the origins ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 13, 2010 |
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Significant findings about protein architecture may aid in drug design, generation of nanomaterials
Researchers in Singapore are reporting this week that they have gleaned key insights into the architecture of a protein that controls iron levels in almost all organisms. Their study culminated in one of the first successful ...
Apr 09, 2010 |
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Haptic solution for modelling industrial designs
(PhysOrg.com) -- Industrial design modelling, used to make prototypes of home appliances or mock-ups of car parts, could soon make the leap from the world of plaster, plastic and sticky tape into the digital ...
Apr 06, 2010 |
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Intel Launches Xeon 7500 processor series
Intel Corporation today culminated the transition to the company's award-winning "Nehalem" chip design with the launch of the Intel Xeon 7500 processor series.
Mar 31, 2010 |
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'Lighting a match in a tornado' is one of multiple feats for propulsion center
When Walter O'Brien was a young boy, he recalls a moment of complete exhilaration when he was able to design and build a balsa wood airplane model that actually flew from his parents' front porch, across the ...
Mar 31, 2010 |
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