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Lego
robot
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Lego just
announced their Mindstorm
NXT which is (gulp) "smarter, stronger, and more intuitive than ever."
The new toolset
features a wide range of sensors allowing your bot to now sense and
react to sounds and movement with improved reaction
to both light and touch. The heart of the system is the NXT brick -- a
32-bit microprocessor which can be programmed by
PC or now, Mac. |
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2D drawing to 3D |
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Teddy is a
Java-Applet Drawing Program that takes the 2D images you
draw and renders them in 3D. The alogrithm adds shading according to
the strokes and connections between the lines. This is truly a cool
program for anyone and everyone! |
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MysteryPalace
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Ghost stories
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Robots
to offer Japan's elderly new lease on life
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A graduate
student wearing the robot suit "Hybrid Assistive Limb (HAL)
5," developed by professor Yoshiyuki Sankai, easily holds three packs
of rice during a test at Tsukuba Industrial Liaison Corp. Research
Center at the University of Tsukuba, northeast of Tokyo, June
24. The
robotic suit can give an average man twice his usual strength and was
developed to assist the elderly in their everyday lives. |
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Tenth
planet in our solar system
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Astronomers have found a tenth planet,
larger than Pluto and nearly three times farther from the sun as Pluto
is today.
Temporarily
designated 2003 UB313, the new planet is the most distant object yet
seen in the solar system, 97 times farther from the sun than the Earth.
It also is the largest body yet found orbiting in the Kuiper belt, the
group of icy bodies including Pluto which orbit beyond Neptune.
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Feces
powers Rwandan prison
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Prisoners' feces is converted
into combustible "biogas," or methane gas
that can be used for cooking. It has reduced by 60 percent the annual
wood-fuel costs which would otherwise reach near $1 million, according
to Silas Lwakabamba, rector of the Kigali Institute of Science,
Technology and Management, where the technology was developed. |
Zombie
dogs
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US scientists have
succeeded in reviving the dogs after three hours of
clinical death, paving the way for trials on humans within years.
Pittsburgh's Safar Centre for Resuscitation Research
has
developed
a technique in which subject's veins are drained of blood and filled
with an ice-cold salt solution.
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Hilter's
bomb
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Controversial new
historical evidence suggests that German
physicists built and tested a nuclear bomb during the Second World War.
Rainer Karlsch and Mark Walker outline the findings and present a
previously unpublished diagram of a German nuclear weapon |
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Bendable concrete
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A new
type of fiber-reinforced bendable concrete will be used for
the first time in Michigan this summer- and University of Michigan
scientists hope that their new material will find widespread use across
the country.
The new concrete looks like regular concrete, but is 500 times
more resistant to cracking and 40 percent lighter in weight. Tiny
fibers that comprise about 2 percent of the mixture's volume partly
account for its performance. Also, the materials in the concrete itself
are designed for maximum flexibility. Because of its long life, the
Engineered Cement Composites (ECC) are expected to cost less in the
long run, as well. |
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Airscooter
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By
eliminating the need
and complexity of swashplates, collective and cyclic control through a
coaxial rotor design a number of benefits beyond conventional
helicopter designs are immediately realized. First; enhanced, intuitive
flight controls are achieved by simple motorcycle-style handlebars and
the absence of a tail rotor. To gain altitude, simply throttle up like
you would on a motorcycle, turn left or right on the handlebars for
craft rotation and move the handlebar assembly as a joystick for
directional control (including reverse). No pedal controls are
necessary, which means someone without the use of their legs can just
as easily fly the AirScooter. Handlebar controls represent the most
distinguishable feature of the AirScooter. AirScooter's patented design
also provides an amazing level of stability while in the air and during
flight. |
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Soviet
space battle station with laser from the 80's
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The Soviet Union was developing the laser space
battle station Skif from beginning of 80's.
Length: 37 meters, Diameter: 4.1 meter, Weight: around 80 tons
It was supposed to be launched by an Energia booster (same as for Buran
shuttle)
Unarmed
prototype filled with scientific equipment was created around
1985 and launched 15 May 1987. It failed to start operations and
with the fall of the Soviet Union the project was scrapped.
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The US
government wants to know what you and I are talking about. Spy
in the sky satellites listen in to what we say and look at what we do.
You've probably heard about Echelon, the vast
listening system run
by the US, UK, Canada and Australia that scans the world's voice
traffic looking for key words and phrases.
Aside from using the system for industrial espionage and
bypassing international and national laws to listen in on people, it is
also used to listen out for people like Osama bin Laden and assorted
terrorists in the hope of preventing attacks.
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HydrogenCar
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PARIS
(Reuters) - German luxury carmaker BMW unveiled the world's
fastest hydrogen-powered car at the Paris auto show on Wednesday,
dubbed the H2R, capable of exceeding 300 kilometers (185 miles) per
hour.
Unlike most hydrogen-powered vehicles, the H2R doesn't operate on a
fuel cell but rather uses a modified 6-litre, 12-cylinder combustion
engine for its propulsion that essentially emits nothing but steam. |
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JPG
image file can be a virus
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A sample program
hit the Internet on
Wednesday, showing by example how malicious coders could compromise
Windows computers by using a flaw in the handling of a widespread
graphics format by Microsoft's software.
Security professionals expect the release of the program to herald a
new round of attacks by viruses and Trojan horses incorporating the
code to circumvent security on Windows computers that have not been
updated. The flaw, in the way Microsoft's
software processes JPEG graphics, could allow a program to take
control of a victim's computer when the user opens a JPEG file.
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Plastic
magnet
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The world's
first plastic magnet to work at room temperature has passed
the elementary test of magnetism. Its creators at the University of
Durham in the UK have used it to pick up iron filings from a laboratory
bench. |
Jet
powered wheelchair
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Giuseppe
Cannella had a big surprise for his mother-in-law when he put a jet
engine on the back of her wheelchair.
Mr Cannella says the chair can now
do top speeds of more
than 60mph and has proved the star of a model plane championship during
the Bank Holiday.
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Holographic 1
TB disc
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Optware
Corp., the developer of Collinear Holographic*
Data Storage System, announced today that it had achieved successfully
world's first recording and play back of digital movies on a
holographic recording disc with a reflective layer using Optware's
revolutionary Collinear Holography. This is a major milestone for
commercializing holographic data storage system. |
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Blu-ray
disc, 50 GB storage
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The Blu-ray disc
founders group today approved version 1.0 of the
physical specification of the Blue-ray disc (BD-ROM). First BD discs
are expected to become commercially available in late 2005.
Manufacturers such as Matsushita, Philips and Sony expect the
manufacturing cost of a BD-ROM to be in the range of a DVD. The media
will provide 25 GByte space on a single-layer disc and 50 GByte on a
dual-layer disc.
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Transportation
futuristics
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What is
“transportation futuristics”? Many of us are familiar with covers from
Popular Science that depict commuters buzzing around in tiny aircraft
and landing on rooftops, or fanciful drawings of vehicles that run on
roads, float on water and also take to the air. The basic problem many
of us face each day-- how to get from Point A to Point B in the least
amount of time with the least amount of trouble-- has inspired many to
dream of marvelous ways to solve that problem. |
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Stealth
ships
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STEALTH
seems to be the norm for the world's major navies, all of whom seem to
be designing or have already launched ships incorporating radar
absorbing materials. India is a player in the league having announced
plans for a stealth frigate. The precise details of the ship are not
known but the Indian Naval Design Bureau in New Delhi has worked out a
design that is being finalized. |
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Monkey
walking on two legs
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Natasha, a 5-year-old
black macaque at
the Safari Park near Tel Aviv, began walking exclusively on her hind
legs after a stomach ailment nearly killed her, zookeepers said.
Monkeys
usually alternate between upright
movement and walking on all fours. A picture in the Maariv daily on
Wednesday showed Natasha standing ramrod straight like a human. The
picture was labeled humorously, "The Missing Link?"
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FutureHorizons
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A website full
of incredible machines, flying saucers, jetpacks, time machines, ion
ray guns, etc
Comments:
 Fake.
They sell all these
incredible machines for a few dollars ?
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Invisibility
cloak
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Susumu
Tachi, who showed off the cloak at an exhibition
in San Francisco earlier this month, said he was hopeful of providing a
way to provide a view of the outside in windowless rooms. |
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Self
cleaning glass
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Pilkington plc
has managed to create a form of self-cleaning,
environmentally-friendly glass called "Activ" that uses technology on a
nano-scale. The glass is able to clean itself purely through exposure
to sunlight, making it very eco-friendly since regular glass needs some
form of detergent to break down the dirt deposits. |
3D Display
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Philips' 3-D autostereoscopic display
technology can be enjoyed by
multiple viewers without the need for glasses with special lenses to
experience the natural 3-D effect and also provides a wide viewing
angle that can be enjoyed by multiple viewers. |
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25 GB
Paper Disk
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LTD and Sony Corporation announced the successful
development of a 25GB paper disc based on Blu-ray Disc technology.
Using the
disc-structure of Blu-ray Disc technology, the new paper disc has a
total weight that is 51% paper.
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Chip
rewires itself on the fly
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The Mountain
View, Calif.-based company on Monday announced the S5000,
which it says is the first processor that can add new instructions
while operating.
The company's own C/C++ compiler automatically spots areas in a program
that require intensive computation and creates new instructions for the
processor to handle those tasks.
Operations that might have needed hundreds or thousands of standard
instructions can be handled in one
The chip has demonstrated 300MHz performance, outperforming 2GHz
competition.
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3D demo's under 100 KByte
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Graphical
user interface gallery
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A website
dedicated to preserving and showcasing Graphical User Interfaces.
Pictures of various operating systems
  
  
Related : Microsoft
Windows History
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GSM handset inside a
pen
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No more
than 140 mm (5.5) inches long, the PenPhone is a full tri-band (900,
1800, 1900 MHz) GSM handset. The unusual feature with this device is
its handwriting recognition capabilities. |
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Worlds
smallest hard drive official
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Japan's
Toshiba Corp said on Tuesday that Guinness World Records had
certified its stamp-sized hard disk drives (HDDs) as the smallest in
the world. The electronics conglomerate's 0.85-inch HDDs, unveiled in
January, have storage capacity of up to four gigabytes and will be used
in products such as cell phones and digital camcorders. |
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Artificial
exoskeleton takes the strain
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A human
exoskeleton, which could help soldiers and fire-fighters carry heavy
loads, is about to take its first public steps. |
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Utility
to offer high-speed Internet over power lines
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A division of
utility Cinergy plans to offer high-speed Internet
service over its power lines, letting customers connect by simply
plugging a computer modem into existing electrical outlets. |
Tabletop
Nuclear Fusion Device
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The researchers
believe the new evidence shows that "sonofusion"
generates nuclear reactions by creating tiny bubbles that implode with
tremendous force. Nuclear fusion reactors have historically required
large, multibillion-dollar machines, but sonofusion devices might be
built for a fraction of that cost. |
Large
Diamonds Made From Gas Are The Hardest Yet
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A group
headed
by scientists at the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical
Laboratory in Washington, D.C., has produced gem-sized diamonds that
are harder than any other crystals. Further, the researchers grew these
diamonds directly from a gas mixture at a rate that is up to 100 times
faster than other methods used to date. |
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1 PC,
6 hard drives, 37 Operating systems
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All the
OSes are
loaded onto six hard drives, and divided across five separate boot
menus with the help of a freely distributed bootloader called XOSL.
The Menagerie features four 5400rpm Maxtors, one 7200rpm Maxtor, and
one 7200rpm Western Digital. The rig’s Gigabite GA6VXE7+ motherboard,
1GHz P-III, Promise PCI IDE ATA/100 controller, and ATI Rage 128
graphics were surprisingly OS-friendly. A 350-watt PSU powers
everything. |
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New
Reactor Puts Hydrogen From Renewable Fuels Within Reach
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The first
reactor capable of producing hydrogen from a renewable fuel
source - ethanol - efficiently enough to hold economic potential has
been invented by University of Minnesota engineers. When coupled with a
hydrogen fuel cell, the unit - small enough to hold in your hand -
could generate one kilowatt of power, almost enough to supply an
average home, the researchers said. |
Inventor's
machine can
think for itself
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His first patent was for a Device for the Autonomous
Generation of Useful Information, the official name of the
Creativity Machine, Miller said. His second patent was for the
Self-Training Neural Network Object. Patent No. 2 was invented by
Patent No. 1.
Think about that. Patent No. 2 was invented by Patent No.
1!"
Supporters say the technology is the best simulation of what
goes on in human brains, and the first truly thinking machine. |
Philips
produces super-thin, bendable display
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AMSTERDAM
(Reuters) -
Dutch firm Philips Electronics said
on Monday it was preparing to mass-produce a slim, book-sized
display panel onto which consumers could download newspapers
and magazines -- then roll up and put away.
PictureAtTrnmag
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World's
biggest battery switched on in Alaska
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The
rechargable
battery, which at 2,000 square metres is bigger than a
football pitch and weighs 1,300 tonnes, was manufactured by power
components specialist ABB to provide electricity to Fairbanks, Alaska's
second-largest city, in the event of a blackout. |
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CD-Rs
deliver degrading experience
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Keeping data CDs
in the dark for two years isn't a good idea. According to the Dutch
magazine PC Active
some CD-Rs degrade in months, even at room temperature without
sunlight.
See also : CDs,
DVDs not so immortal
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The
cheap way to the stars - by escalator
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At the heart of
a space
elevator would be a cable reaching up as far as 100,000km from the
surface of the Earth. The earthbound end would be tethered to a base
station, probably somewhere in the middle of the Pacific ocean. The
other end would be attached to an orbiting object in space acting as a
counterweight, the momentum of which would keep the cable taut and
allow vehicles to climb up and down it. |
Amphibious
car
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The
convertible
Aquada Sports Amphibian, which can
reach up to 100mph on land, uses a jet to propel it through water at
speeds of over 30mph.
It takes about 10 seconds for the
car's
wheels
to
retract, the power to switch and the boat to take off, says Gibbs
Technologies, the company behind the car. |
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Humanoid
Robot in 2005
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Japanese
carmaker Toyota is claiming that it
will build a humanoid robot by 2005. Unlike previous robots, such
as ASIMO or Sony's QRIO, this new robot
will be designed to accomplish useful tasks. |
CPU
working on synthetic Diamonds
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Experimental
diamond transistors have been clocked at 81GHz.
For
comparison, Intel demonstrated cutting-edge silicon transistors in a
lab late last year--running at 10GHz.
Synthetic
(cheap) Diamonds
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Battery
on sugar
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Experimental
cells have run for 25 days without refueling,
although the
packaging remains somewhat bulky at this early stage. What's more, the
cell can be refueled easily with almost any type of sugar. The
byproduct of this organic activity is carbon dioxide, albeit in very
tiny amounts. |
The
Skycar
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A personal
flying car that could take off from any back
garden of
street and be as easy to fly as a car is to drive, if not easier.
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One
Person VTOL
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SoloTrek
is an
open-air VTOL (vertical take-off and landing)
aircraft
that will transport a person in an upright and standing position for up
to two hours. Using readily available fuel, SoloTrek is predicted to
attain speeds in excess of 70 miles per hour and is designed to operate
easily in and out of extremely confined areas. |
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Handheld
Printer
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The
printer has
the length of a normal ballpoint pen while
its width
and height are more or less equivalent to the width of a modern mobile
phone. The total volume is less than 300 c.c. and weights around 350
grams. |
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Molecular
Memory
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According to
some prognosticators, molecular memory schemes will
soon be ready for volume production. |
Museum
of unworkable devices
Perpetuum
Mobiles
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Devices that
cannot work
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The
science of Startrek
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Is Star Trek
really a science show, or just a lot of "gee,
whiz" nonsensical
Sci-Fi? Could people really DO the fantastic things they do on the
original Star Trek and
Next Generation programs, or is it all just hi-tech fantasy for people
who can't face
reality? |
Sharman Exterminating Kazaa Lite K++
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Today, Kazaa Lite K++ fans discovered
that virtually every download mirror of
this client has been eliminated, including links on its home page. |
WindowsReinstall
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Problems with
windows ? reinstall it over itself, keeping
all your data !
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Time machine
Related:
Cronotron.pdf
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Have
you ever dreamed of traveling
in time? Now you can experience what you have only dreamed of. With the Hyper Dimensional
Resonator you
can travel into the past or explore the future. The world will be at
your beck and call
and you will have all the time in the world to explore it.
Comments:
Fake.
He
sells time machines for 12 US Dollars ?
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Defossé
Guillaume Systems 25FPS Video
Related:
Unbelievable
Datacompressions
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The
company MILLENNIUM GATE N.V. is proud to present a new strong
technological performance of the Belgian electronic wizard Guillaume
Defossé: a standard NOKIA 9210 adapted with his DGS-Operating
System
able to play a full feature movie @ 25 frames per second.
Comments:
Fake. Able
to play a full feature movie @ 25 frames per second. The test movie is
108 minutes. The movie is stored on only one flash memory card of 16 MB
(from which 11 MB is used for the OS and other software!)
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