Laser medical scan does away with biopsies

A dose of nanoparticles and an infrared laser can reveal the chemical details of disease such as cancer without a biopsy
Tags: art, hd, nano, Uncategorized

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March 31st, 2008 - Posted in Uncategorized | | Comments Off

Too Cool to be Forgotten: wish fulfillment graphic novel becomes something lovelier by far

I read an early review copy of Alex Robinson's touching and funny graphic novel Too Cool to Be Forgotten back in March, an emerged from it feeling uplifted, happy, and a little melancholy. Robert Wicks goes to a holistic clinic with his wife to get hypnotherapy for smoking cessation and finds himself spiralling into the mind of his 15-year-old self, on the verge of smoking his first cigarette. With impeccable dream-logic, Wicks concludes that all he needs to do is resist that fateful butt and he'll be catapulted back to his present-day self on the therapist's couch. In the meantime, he can relive all the awkward and joyous moments of adolescence, revisiting his pals and making amends for his foolishness, confronting the bullies, and winning the affections of the girl he never had the guts to talk to.

This is great wish-fulfillment fodder, and the low-calorie comic-book approach eases the reader directly into the fantasy without much cognitive load, allowing you to revel in the what-if game of being able to tell your adolescent self everything you know today. But beneath that light dreamy sense is a deepening feeling of dread, a sense that everything is not what it seems.

By the story's end, wish fulfillment has become something much more challenging and, frankly, beautiful. There's a lot going on in this little book. Link

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March 31st, 2008 - Posted in Boing Boing | | Comments Off

Invention: Diamond-cooled nuclear reactor

This week's patent applications include nuclear plants cooled by flowing diamonds, better snowboard bindings, and a trick to advance the arrival of superfast spintronic computing
Tags: hd, nuclear, Uncategorized

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March 31st, 2008 - Posted in Uncategorized | | Comments Off

Satellites could keep your secrets safe in space

Photons bounced off a satellite orbiting at 1485 km have been detected on Earth, showing that quantum communication from space should be possible
Tags: art, hd, Uncategorized

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March 31st, 2008 - Posted in Uncategorized | | Comments Off

Quantum effects could shed light on hazy images

The way that entangled photons are linked could be used to screen out noise from scientific images of things like microscopic structures
Tags: hd, screen, Uncategorized

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March 29th, 2008 - Posted in Uncategorized | | Comments Off

Particle smasher ‘not a threat to the Earth’

A lawsuit accusing the Large Hadron Collider of endangering humanity with mini black holes is labelled 'nonsense' by experts
Tags: art, hd, Uncategorized, xp

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March 28th, 2008 - Posted in Uncategorized | | Comments Off

Virtual pets can learn just like babies

There are few limits to what a pet can be taught in the virtual world, as long as it has someone to copy ? the result could be better video game characters
Tags: hd, Uncategorized, video

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March 28th, 2008 - Posted in Uncategorized | | Comments Off

Fingernail camera makes any object a touchpad

Using a simple webcam to observe blood flow in a person's fingers reveals a wealth of information about how they are touching 3D objects
Tags: 3d, hd, Uncategorized

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March 28th, 2008 - Posted in Uncategorized | | Comments Off

Space elevators face wobble problem

The elevator cables may need thrusters to counteract dangerous vibrations caused by gravitational tugs from the Sun and Moon, a new study argues
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March 28th, 2008 - Posted in Uncategorized | | Comments Off

Corn-based film foils food-poisoning bugs

A novel packaging film made from renewable materials such as corn residues, could help stamp out and other food-borne bugs
Tags: film, food, hd, Uncategorized

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March 28th, 2008 - Posted in Uncategorized | | Comments Off

Electroshocking plants brings chemical rewards

Exposing plants to electric currents stimulates overproduction of biochemicals and could be a cheap way of deriving useful compounds
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March 28th, 2008 - Posted in Uncategorized | | Comments Off

Anti-landmine campaigners turn sights on war robots

Electronic systems that independently decide when to kill should be banned under treaties like those against landmines, a group says
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March 28th, 2008 - Posted in Uncategorized | | Comments Off

Stretchy circuits promise elastic gadgets

The first foldable, stretchable integrated silicon circuits could allow electronics into new places, from the human brain to clothing
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March 27th, 2008 - Posted in Uncategorized | | Comments Off

BBC Micro ignites memories

Architects of the BBC Micro gather to remember its birth and legacy

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March 21st, 2008 - Posted in Engadget | | Comments Off

Looking back at a computing icon

Games developer David Braben looks back at the role of the BBC Micro in the UK computer industry.

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March 20th, 2008 - Posted in Engadget | | Comments Off

Arthur C Clarke: predictions

Summary here

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March 19th, 2008 - Posted in Engadget | | Comments Off

The web, politician and prostitute

Assistant professor Alfred Hermida on the ethical and legal issues are the media’s use of social networks.

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March 18th, 2008 - Posted in Engadget | | Comments Off