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Blind can take wheel with vehicle designed by university engineering design team

Blind can take wheel with new vehicle

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 6

A student team in the Virginia Tech College of Engineering is providing the blind with an opportunity many never thought possible: The opportunity to drive.





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Intel has launched software that sniffs out questionable claims at websites.

Intel program spotlights dubious online claims

Technology / Internet

created Jun 19, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Intel has launched software that sniffs out questionable claims at websites.


Syringes with influenza virus vaccine sitting on a tray

Google launches online flu shot finder

Technology / Internet

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Google on Tuesday launched an online tool for tracking down where to get vaccinations against H1N1 and seasonal influenza in the United States.


Intel project seeks to mark disputed Web information

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Do Eskimos have more words for "snow" than we do? You're probably not alone if you thought the answer was yes.


Online shoppers will pay extra to protect privacy, study shows

Other Sciences / Other

created Jun 06, 2007 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

People are willing to pay extra to buy items from online retailers when they can easily ascertain how retailers’ policies will protect their privacy, a new Carnegie Mellon University study shows.


New search engine uses human touch

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created Jan 18, 2006 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Humans are better at information-gathering than computers. That's the philosophy behind PreFound, the Web's new community-based search engine.


25 year old message in a bottle reunited with its owner

Other Sciences / Other

created Aug 21, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (10) | comments 0

As an eleven year old boy in 1985, Donald Wylie tossed a bottle into the Orkney sea, with a message asking its finder to track him down. Almost a quarter of a century later, Donald will be reunited with the bottle which ...


T-REX is monster light source with multiple applications

T-REX is monster light source with multiple applications

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 04, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (15) | comments 1

When it comes to laser-based light sources, there are few brighter than T-REX, an LLNL project developed jointly by the NIF & Photon Science Principle Directorate and the Physical Sciences Directorate.


Speeding 'fingertip' discovery -- 20 years of protein info in 1 place

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created Apr 23, 2007 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at Johns Hopkins took advantage of a new technique that reads the makeup of proteins to identify nearly all chemical changes nature makes by adding phosphate to proteins manufactured in human cells.


The robot uses a laser range finder and radio communications to recreate the behaviour of fish

Cars may one day mimic fish to avoid collisions

Technology / Hi Tech

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 1

Engineers in Japan say they are a step closer to developing technology they hope will cut the risk of car crashes -- by mimicking the behaviour of fish.


Metadata bring order to digital chaos

Technology / Hi Tech

created Sep 10, 2008 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

MP3 files, video streams, digital images – the flood of multimedia data swells higher every day. New systems help the user to keep tabs on it all. At the International Broadcasting Convention IBC in Amsterdam on September ...



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