News Lost Map's On, Not Up, Sleeve. Press Try A Cucumber, Romeo. Alienware The Best Custom Built Gaming PC for the Ultimate PC Gamer! V.S.Grebennikov - Bio-Gravitics. MDI - The air car - lifestyle, economy, ecology - Homepage. Electronic Paper project. Dr. Joseph M. Jacobson, Barrett Comiskey, Patrick Anderson, and Leila Hasan Books with printed pages are unique in that they embody the simultaneous, high-resolution display of hundreds of pages of information. The representation of information on a large number of physical pages, which may be physically turned and written on, constitutes a highly preferred means of information interaction.
An obvious disadvantage of the printed page, however, is its immutability once typeset. Here are some snapshots of pictures taken under the microscope. Here are some movies showing how electronic paper works. Back to the main MicroMedia homepage. Technically Speaking Bombardier's Embrio. Savant for a Day. In a concrete basement at the University of Sydney, I sat in a chair waiting to have my brain altered by an electromagnetic pulse.
My forehead was connected, by a series of electrodes, to a machine that looked something like an old-fashioned beauty-salon hair dryer and was sunnily described to me as a ''Danish-made transcranial magnetic stimulator.'' This was not just any old Danish-made transcranial magnetic stimulator, however; this was the Medtronic Mag Pro, and it was being operated by Allan Snyder, one of the world's most remarkable scientists of human cognition. Nonetheless, the anticipation of electricity being beamed into my frontal lobes (and the consent form I had just signed) made me a bit nervous. Snyder found that amusing. ''Oh, relax now! '' he said in the thick local accent he has acquired since moving here from America. ''I've done it on myself a hundred times. ''Damage?
'' ''You're not going to be damaged,'' he said. While I drew, Snyder continued his lecture. Society for Scientific Exploration. News Release Diagnosing Chronic Fatigue Check For Sinusitis. Washington, D.C. – A new study published in the August 11 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine demonstrates a possible link between unexplained chronic fatigue and sinusitis, two conditions previously not associated with each other.
Also newly noted was a relationship between sinusitis and unexplained body pain. These findings offer new hope to patients lacking a diagnosis and treatment for fatigue and pain. Sinus disease is seldom considered as a cause of unexplained chronic fatigue or pain, despite recent ear, nose, and throat (otolaryngology) studies documenting significant fatigue and pain in patients with sinusitis and dramatic improvement after sinus surgery. A Harvard study showed that fatigue and pain scores of sinusitis patients were similar or worse than a group 20 years older with congestive heart failure, lung disease, or back pain. The CDC approximates that sinusitis affects 32 million Americans. Optical Camouflage. [English / Japanese] What is Optical Camouflage? Optical camouflage is a kind of active camouflage.
This idea is very simple.If you project background image onto the masked object, you can observe the masked object just as if it were virtually transparent. This shows the principle of the optical camouflage using X'tal Vision.You can select camouflaged object to cover with retroreflector.Moreover, to project a stereoscopic image, the observer looks at the masking object more transparent. Optical camouflage can be applied for a real scene.In the case of a real scene, a photograph of the scene is taken from the operatorfs viewpoint, and this photograph is projected to exactly the same place as the original.Actually, applying HMP-based optical camouflage to a real scene requires image-based rendering techniques. If you want to know the mechanism of this optical camouflage demonstration, please see the following brochure: M. And you can find more detailed information at the pulication section.
S. WEIRD SCIENCE torsion fields, spin-waves in the vacuum. Society for Interdisciplinary Studies (SIS) Home Page. New Scientist. Marketing Science Institute. News Release Firefly Light Helps Destroy Cancer Cells; Researchers Find That The Bioluminescence Effects Of Firef. London (April 15th) -- Could the gentle firefly turn out to be a potent weapon against cancer?
In a new study, researchers from London inserted the firefly gene that activates bioluminescent light into modified cancer cells, hoping to set off a chain of events that has a proven track record at fighting the disease. This light source, known as Luciferin, caused the modified cancer cells to glow much like it does with the firefly. When a photosensitizing agent was added, the combination proved lethal. "The cells produced enough light to trigger their own death," said Dr. Theodossis Theodossiou of the National Medical Laser Centre, University College London. University College London scientists and colleagues at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research published their results today in the journal Cancer Research. External light sources, however, can only pass through a small amount of tissue to get to the tumor. Lightcraft Technology Incorporated.
What is a Lightcraft? A Lightcraft is a 1kg launch vehicle, made from high temperature ceramic materials, that flies into space on a megawatt laser beam. The Lightcraft, shown here in flight, is both a single-stage-to-orbit launch vehicle and a satellite. How does it work? A ground based laser is the power source that propels the Lightcraft into orbit. Lightcraft can deliver payloads into space for a fraction of the cost of traditional rockets because most of the engine stays on the ground, thereby unburdening the craft from having to lift the energy source for its propulsion system. The back side of the craft is a large, highly polished parabolic mirror that is designed to capture the laser beam projected at it from the ground. History of Lightcraft 1987 Prof.
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Then it began to put stunning designs on the road. Now it is going after luxury buyers. Engineering GM Brings on the Heavy-Duty Silverado and Sierra Gary S. Those who are looking for dependability, durability and capability in their trucks now have new vehicles from Chevrolet and GMC to consider, heavy-duty trucks that also include style and comfort. Machining a "Rock Racer" Building a race car to traverse dusty Mojave Desert trails at more than 100 mph and then crawl up steep stone-covered hills is no small feat.
Mark Oeltjenbruns' Radio Weblog. Space Policy Digest - Why We Came Home From the Moon. National Geographic magazine June 1999. 039;s Modular Robotics chain systems - PolyBot. Mersenne Prime Search. PolyLED - a whatis definition - see also polymer LED, light-emitting polymer. Le Pipelines - Library - Gallery. Hewlett Placards. Weird Science (Bill Beaty's Homepages) The most beautiful experiment. Figure 1. Wired 11.04 The Bacteria Whisperer. The Bacteria Whisperer Bonnie Bassler discovered a secret about microbes that the science world has missed for centuries. The bugs are talking to each other. And plotting against us. By Steve Silberman Trim and hyperkinetic at 40, Bonnie Bassler is often mistaken for a graduate student at conferences.
The point of the call, of course, was that Bassler - an associate professor of molecular biology at Princeton - is now officially a genius herself. The notion that microbes have anything to say to each other is surprisingly new. New research suggests, however, that microbial life is much richer: highly social, intricately networked, and teeming with interactions. Last year, Bassler and her colleagues unlocked the structure of a molecular language shared by many of nature's most fearsome particles of mass destruction, including those responsible for cholera, tuberculosis, pneumonia, septicemia, ulcers, Lyme disease, stomach cancer, and bubonic plague. Page 2 >> New Scientist. Cosmic computer -- new philosophy to explain the universe. Once dismissed as a relic of the Middle Ages, the spirit of metaphysical speculation is alive and well -- in computer science. Over candlelight in cathedrals and monkish cells, medieval metaphysicians quarreled over ultimate mysteries of reality, such as: What is the nature of God?
Are there other universes besides ours? And could God create other universes, if He wished? Nowadays, with a daring that might have dazzled St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, two titans of the computer world argue that everything in the universe is a kind of computer. Their sensational idea originally enjoyed a brief flurry of celebrity in the late 1980s, when one of the two, Ed Fredkin, proposed a particularly grandiose version of the idea. Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science" is a five-pound, 1,200-page tome that has become a freak summer best-seller, rivaling John Grisham and Danielle Steel in sales.
"Spectacular, iconoclastic," says one scientist. Wolfram refuses to go that far.