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| Inhabitat's Week in Green: Eindhoven's Evoluon Center, folding compact cars and the best of 3D printing |
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As we enter mid-August, millions of people will load up the car and head out to the beach for summer vacation. |
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Published: 09:32, Sunday, August 12, 2012
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| Disney researchers can now digitally shave your face, clone it for animatronics (video) |
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The minds at Disney Research aren't only interested in tracking your face - they want to map, shave and clone it, too. |
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Published: 03:45, Sunday, August 12, 2012
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| NASA's Curiosity rover receives long-distance OTA update, 'brain transplant' on Mars |
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Think it's nifty when your carrier deigns to provide your smartphone with that long awaited OTA update. That's nothing. Over the weekend, NASA's Curiosity rover will be receiving its first long-distance OTA update - all the way out there on Mars. |
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Published: 20:24, Saturday, August 11, 2012
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| MIT researchers develop highly agile autonomous plane (video) |
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If you're flying a robot indoors, chances are it's a quadrocopter. The ability hover and maneuver on a dime is essential to whipping around the confined spaces of a lab. |
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Published: 17:19, Saturday, August 11, 2012
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| Alt-week 8.11.12: Robo-billies, quasicrystals and radioactive art |
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Alt-week peels back the covers on some of the more curious sci-tech stories from the last seven days. It's not like we're trying to out-weird ourselves, it just, somehow, keeps happening. |
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Published: 14:49, Saturday, August 11, 2012
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| Researchers make unsuitable parts work as solar cells, could lead to cheaper panels |
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Harnessing the power of the sun is a tricky business, but even the past few weeks have seen some interesting developments in the field. |
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Published: 12:24, Saturday, August 11, 2012
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| Stuffed Toys Alive! replaces mechanical limbs with strings for a much softer feel (hands-on) |
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It worked just fine for Pinocchio, so why not animatronic stuffed bears. |
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Published: 13:14, Friday, August 10, 2012
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| Cheap NFC-based chips run on your phone's radio waves, can be read and written |
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A new generation of cheaper, passively powered smart tags could accelerate NFC adoption very soon. |
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Published: 12:28, Friday, August 10, 2012
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| Scientists release biggest ever 3D map of the universe, lacks turn-by-turn navigation (video) |
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The stargazers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have released a huge three-dimensional map of outer space, a core part of its six-year survey of the skies. |
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Published: 09:26, Friday, August 10, 2012
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| Researchers create Meshworm robot, beat it up (video) |
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We've seen a number of options for controlling real worms, but never a worm robot, until now. Enter Meshworm, the latest creation from researchers at MIT, Harvard University and Seoul National University. |
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Published: 07:33, Friday, August 10, 2012
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