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New Technology to Use Human Body As Digital Transmission Path

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) is pursuing research and development of an innovative Human Area Networking technology called RedTacton (*1) that safely turns the surface of the human body ...

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High-intensity ultrasound creates hollow nanospheres and nanocrystals

Using high-intensity ultrasound, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have created hollow nanospheres and the first hollow nanocrystals. The nanospheres could be used in microelectronics, ...

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Experts to measure world's highest peak

China will once again measure the height of Mount Qomolangma, the world's highest peak, said the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping (SBSM) on Jan.17. Approved by the State Council, the SBSM will dispatch ...

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Toshiba And SanDisk Celebrate Construction Of 300mm Wafer Fab Building For NAND Flash Memory

Toshiba Corporation and SanDisk Corporation marked the completion of an advanced wafer fabrication facility at Toshiba's Yokkaichi Operations with a traditional ceremony and reception. The new fab is expected to come on line ...

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East Japan Railway, NTT DoCoMo and Sony to Launch "Mobile Suica" Service

East Japan Railway Company (JR East), NTT DoCoMo, Inc. and Sony Corporation (Sony) today announced that they will offer a new service combining DoCoMo's i-mode® FeliCa® smart-card handset and Suica, JR East's IC card train ...

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Slimming cure for digital videos

The future, high-speed DSL lines will no longer be the sole preserve of computer users. The TV set will also become a multimedia device, capable of downloading videos for instant viewing via telephone cables. Up until now ...

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IBM Delivers Unparalleled Technology to Intel-Server Segment

IBM introduced the eServer X3 architecture, the culmination of a three year, one hundred-million-dollar development effort, to bring mainframe-inspired capabilities and sophisticated high-end technology to the company's next-generation ...

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Modern computers to uncover secrets of Duke’s ancient mosses

It’s ironic. The 230,000 specimens of bryophytes -- mosses and their cousins-- in the Duke Herbarium’s massive collection may have evolved some 500 million years ago. But not until 21st-century computer technology will some ...

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New Embedded Processors To Be Foundation For Devices From The Car To The Factory Floor

Intel Corporation announced that recently introduced processors and a corresponding chipset are now available for embedded market segments such as communications infrastructure, industrial box and panel PCs and in-car infotainment. ...

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Frozen sea discovered near Martian equator from 3D images of Mars Express

The discovery, by an international team of scientists led by University College London (UCL), the Open University (OU), and the Free University of Berlin, of a frozen sea close to the equator of Mars has brought ...

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Fujitsu Introduces Wireless Shopping Cart System

Consumers can say good-bye to long checkout lines and hello to the new face of retail customer service - the U-Scan Shopper. Developed by Fujitsu Transaction Solutions Inc. in partnership with Klever Marketing, the ...

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UAlbany CNSE enters NanoBio alliance with Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Leading medical college to partner with world's first nanotechnology college on emerging nanobiotechnology and nanomedicine research and education opportunities The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) of ...

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Ariane 5 technology turns the lights on

Soon we may be able to fill the bath, turn the lights on and play our favourite CD without moving from our chair or pressing a button. Technology, developed by ESA for European spacecraft, is now being used to create small ...

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Anti-rollover device for tractors

An Agricultural Mechanisation team from the Department of Rural Projects and Engineering at the Public University of Navarre have designed a new anti-rollover structure for pre-1980 registered tractors. It involves a double ...

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Computing a way through the Turing barrier

Mathematicians working in an emerging field somewhere between physics, computer science and philosophy are investigating new ways of ‘computing the incomputable’ which could radically broaden our understanding of the world. ...

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