Nano World: Nano origami supercapacitors
Origami with features just nanometers or billionths of a meter large can fold into electrically chargeable supercapacitors, experts told UPI's Nano World.
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Briefs: Pegasus acquires home wireless company
Pegasus Wireless has agreed to acquire maccontrol, a Florida firm that manufactures a remote control and connector for the wireless home of the future.
Mar 10, 2006
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Briefs: Golden Telecom plans Moscow WiFi network
Golden Telecom plans to build a WiFi Internet network in Moscow later this year.
Mar 10, 2006
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Wireless World: Stop, diamond thief!
An aspiring diamond thief takes a job at a jewelry company's warehouse, surreptitiously planning to scam his employer out of some of its lucrative inventory over the coming months. It's apparently a common confidence trickster ...
Mar 10, 2006
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Identifying gems and minerals on Earth and on Mars
It'll be a snap to identify gemstones once Robert Downs finishes his library of spectral fingerprints for all the Earth's minerals. Downs is almost halfway there. So far, the associate professor of geosciences at The University ...
Mar 10, 2006
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'Hands free' isn't mind free: Performing even easy tasks impairs driving
Do you think using a hands-free device makes it okay to talk on a cell phone while driving? Despite the well-intended laws requiring the use of hands-free devices, a driver's performance is impaired when distracted by even ...
Mar 10, 2006
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Eleksen develops keyboards for Microsoft
Eleksen Ltd. said Friday it was developing a line of its "smart fabric" touch pads for use in Microsoft's just-unveiled ultra-mobile personal computers.
Mar 10, 2006
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Lycos gets into online gaming
Internet search giant Lycos entered the online gaming war this week with the launch of its Lycos Games service.
Mar 10, 2006
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Saturn’s moon is source of solar system’s largest planetary ring
Saturn's moon Enceladus is the source of Saturn's E-ring, confirms research published today. Writing in the journal Science, scientists show how a plume of icy water vapour bursting out of the South Pole of Enceladus replenishes ...
Mar 10, 2006
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Senator Opposes Pentagon Plan To Downgrade Space Command
Sen. Wayne Allard (R-Colo.) has told the Defense Department he will oppose any Air Force proposal to downgrade its U.S. Space Command and said he is asking Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to justify the Pentagon's plan.
Mar 10, 2006
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