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Garmin's iQue 3600a: Aviation's First Ready-to-Fly PDA

Garmin International today introduced the iQue 3600a, the first Palm Powered aviation device that is ready to navigate right out of the box. The iQue 3600a package includes an innovative yoke-mounted cradle ...

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Nanoscale electron island could lead to new efficient flat-panel displays

UW-Madison Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor Robert Blick and colleagues in Germany have demonstrated a new nanoscale mechanism for field emission that could lead to a new type of energy ...

Nanotechnology /

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UTD Establishes Motion Capture And Virtual Reality Laboratory

An interdisciplinary Motion Capture and Virtual Reality Laboratory for the digital recording of motion in 3-D spaces and creating virtual-reality environments has been established at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). ...

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New way of making fuel cells using microfabrication lowers costs

University of Michigan researchers are developing ways that could produce fuel cells at a fraction of the current cost by using microfabrication rather than traditional manufacturing processes. "We arrived at ...

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Remodelling the eye - latest developments in preventing blindness

At the Bristol Eye Hospital, in the South West of England, researchers from the University of Bristol have made an exciting discovery that could result in 'remodelling' cells in the eye. This could have a major impact on ...

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Casio and Renesas Technology to Collaborate on Semiconductor Device Packaging Technology

Casio Computer Co., Ltd. and Renesas Technology Corp. have agreed to an arrangement whereby Casio will license its wafer level package (WLP) semiconductor device packaging technology to Renesas Technology. The agr ...

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Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs To Host Nanotechnology Standards Panel

In support of the U.S. government's effort to encourage growth of the nascent nanotechnology industry, Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs will host the second meeting of the American National Standards Institute's Nanotechnology ...

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More of Titan’s secrets to be unveiled on 21 January

One week after the successful completion of Huygens’ mission to the atmosphere and surface of Titan, the largest and most mysterious moon of Saturn, the European Space Agency is bringing together some of the probe’s scientists ...

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'Bullet star' shines 350 times brighter than the sun

For decades, scientists have observed that Regulus, the brightest star in the constellation Leo, spins much faster than the sun. But thanks to a powerful new telescopic array, astronomers now know with unprecedented ...

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Rice student wins award for revolutionary MRI research

Fullerene-based contrast agents could allow first single-cell imaging The Nanotechnology Foundation of Texas has selected Rice University doctoral student Balaji Sitharaman as one of two winners of the 2004 George Kozme ...

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Huygens lands with a splat

Although Huygens landed on Titan's surface on 14 January, activity at ESA's European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany, continues at a furious pace. Scientists are still working to refine the exact ...

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