Electronics
Games Consoles ‘Not Green Enough’
Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo are not doing enough to eliminate potentially harmful chemicals and metals from their games consoles, Greenpeace has said.
The body examined materials used inside the Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3), Microsoft Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii. Greenpeace said that while all three machines complied with European laws, the consoles still contained harmful […]
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Researchers Make First Automated Surgery Milestones
by Shane McGlaun - DailyTech.com
Rudimentary robot was able to perform simple surgical procedures without human assistance.
Doctors and surgeons already make use of some types of robots to perform procedures where the precision of the operation required is often more than a human can consistently offer. Some researchers say that the day when these robots can […]
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Xbox Manager Slams Sony for Every PlayStation 3 Misstep
by Marcus Yam - DailyTech.com
Microsoft pulls no punches in pointing out PS3 mistakes.
Console wars are the sweet fuel to all fanboy discussions, and whenever a representative of a particular games company says something particularly scathing about the competition, explosions are sure to follow.
Xbox product manager Aaron Greenberg recently spoke out in an interview with Destructoid […]
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Mars Radar Instruments Work Together To Discover Hidden Martian Secrets
by ScienceDaily.com
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A radar instrument co-sponsored by NASA on the European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter has looked beneath the surface of Mars and opened up a new dimension for planetary exploration.
The technique’s success is prompting scientists to think of other places in the solar system where they would like to use radar […]
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Nano Switch Hint at Future Chips
by Darren Waters - BBC News
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Researchers have built the world’s smallest transistor - one atom thick and 10 atoms wide - out of a material that could one day replace silicon.
The transistor, essentially an on/off switch, has been made using graphene, a two-dimensional material first discovered only four years […]
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Nerve-tapping Neckband Used in ‘Telepathic’ Chat
by Tom Simonite
NewScientist.com - A neckband that translates thought into speech by picking up nerve signals has been used to demonstrate a “voiceless” phone call for the first time.
With careful training a person can send nerve signals to their vocal cords without making a sound. These signals are picked up by the neckband and relayed […]
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