World-Class In-Car Speech Recognition System for Navigation in 2005 Honda Cars

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Sep 02, 2004 | 3.5 / 5 (8) | 0

IBM®, the world leader in information technology innovation, today announced that it has jointly developed with Honda Motor Company a unique, hands-free and natural-sounding in-vehicle speech-recognition system - the indust ...

Serpentine locks up Carbon Dioxide

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Sep 02, 2004 | 4.8 / 5 (5) | 0

A common mineral can remove carbon dioxide from combustion gases, but in its natural state, it is glacially slow. Now, a team of Penn State researchers is changing serpentine so that it sequesters the carbon ...

NEC Realizes Control of Position & Diameter of Carbon Nanotube

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Sep 02, 2004 | 3.5 / 5 (2) | 0

Technology that contributes to electronic devices utilizing carbon nanotubes NEC Corporation today announced the development of a diameter/position-controlled carbon nanotube ("CNT") growth technique that is based on conv ...

Superior color sense of women

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Sep 02, 2004 | 3 / 5 (2) | 0

Stereotypes about the superior color sense of women may well be rooted in genetics. Brian Verrelli, a researcher at the Biodesign Institute at ASU, is co-collaborator on a study suggesting that natural genetic selection ha ...

Spintronics Breakthrough: Negative Resistance of a Single Magnetic Domain Wall Measured

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Sep 02, 2004 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Physicists for several years have been predicting a new age of semiconductor devices that operate by subtle changes in the orientation of electron spins. Known as "spintronics," the field relies on an intricate knowledge of the magnet ...

Great Wall of China moves to contactless access ticketing with Philips’ MIFARE UltraLight chip technology

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Sep 02, 2004 | 2 / 5 (2) | 0

Royal Philips Electronics today announced that the Beijing Municipal Administration and Communications Card Co. Ltd. (BMAC) is using Philips’ MIFARE® UltraLight contactless chip technology in a new e-ticketing system for the ...

World's Highest-capacity Smart Card IC

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Sep 02, 2004 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a leader in advanced s emiconductor technology, completes a full line up of high performance, high-capacity smart card technology with the introduction of the world's first 256- ...

New Internet2 Land-Speed Record: 6.63 Gigabits per Second

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Sep 02, 2004 | 2 / 5 (1) | 0

Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), along with colleagues at AMD, Cisco, Microsoft Research, Newisys, and S2io have set a new Internet2 land-speed reco ...

A Guiding Light on the Nanoscale

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Sep 02, 2004 | not rated yet | 0

Another important step towards realizing the promise of lightning fast photonic technology has been taken by scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of Ca ...

New Mini MP3 Player with 5GB 1-inch Seagate Hard Drive

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Seagate Technology and Creative Technology Ltd today announced that Creative's first mini MP3 player, MuVo2 FM 5GB, comes equipped with Seagate's new 5 GB, 1-inch ST1 Series hard drive with RunOn Technology. It is the first produ ...

First Portable Media Center with 3.8-Inch Color Screen

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Creative , a worldwide leader in digital entertainment products for PC users, today announced that the Zen Portable Media Center is now available. As the top-of-the-line player in the award-winning Creative Zen family, the ...