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Touch screens create online shopping experiences at stores

Imagine browsing knife sets in an airport and then ordering one before you board your plane, or going to a department store to look at makeup without having to bounce from counter to counter to check out each brand's selection.

Technology / Business

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Disappearing gold a boon for nanolattices

(PhysOrg.com) -- When gold vanishes from a very important location, it usually means trouble. At the nanoscale, however, it could provide more knowledge about certain types of materials. A recent discovery ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Americans get most radiation from medical scans

(AP) -- We fret about airport scanners, power lines, cell phones and even microwaves. It's true that we get too much radiation. But it's not from those sources - it's from too many medical tests.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 14, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study simulated car crashes involving pregnant women

Although states are not required to report fetal deaths in accident data, between 300 and 1,000 unborn babies die in car accidents each year. This accident fatality rate is about four times the rate for victims ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Here's a guide to social networking for clueless adults

Welcome to Facebook, children of the 20th century. Since the social network, initially developed for students, relaxed its rules in 2006 to let in pretty much anyone older than 13, millions of users who predate the Internet ...

Technology / Internet

created May 13, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Engineers to create parts of virtual crash test dummy

You really can learn a lot from a dummy. For decades, automakers have been crashing test dummies to gain insight to how various auto safety systems protect – or fail to protect – people during car accidents. But those dummies ...

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 11, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists produce illusion of body-swapping

Cognitive neuroscientists at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet (KI) have succeeded in making subjects perceive the bodies of mannequins and other people as their own. The findings are published in the online, ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 02, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (39) | comments 5

Scientists propose explanation for out-of-body experiences

Using virtual reality goggles to mix up the sensory signals reaching the brain, scientists have induced out-of-body-like experiences in healthy people, suggesting a scientific explanation for a phenomenon often thought to ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Aug 23, 2007 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (62) | comments 0

Good computer interfaces respect the real world, expert says

Before Jeff Hawkins ever started making the original Palm Pilot digital organizer, he prototyped it as a block of wood with fake buttons and a paper screen. To this day the Palm Pilot is a successful design of human and computer ...

Technology /

created Feb 22, 2006 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Tips for Staying Safe on the Internet

Dan Barker, the co-owner of Strategic Data Integration in Hillsborough, N.C., and an editor of “Certified Internet Webmaster Foundations for Dummies,” teaches the Duke Continuing Studies course "PC Threats: Spam, Scams & ...

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created Nov 03, 2005 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0


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