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This Idea Wasn't All Wet: The Sensing Water-Saving Shower Head Debuts

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He imagined a shower head that would sense when the person showering moved out from under the stream of water. The shower head would then automatically turn the water off, turning it back on again when the person moved back into range. Schneider’s development path started soon after that dinner-table conversation.

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Google and IEEE launch $1M challenge for downsized inverters

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The grand prize winner will be announced sometime in January, 2016. Eligible academics interested in pursuing grant funding must apply by 30 September. They are required to bring their inverters in person to a testing facility in United States by 21 October 2015. As a few points of comparison, the Bosch INVCON 2.3

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The First Digital Camera Was The Size of a Toaster

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Registration is open ; guests can attend in person or virtually. Photos have become the universal form of casual conversation,” he said in a 2018 interview with The Institute. In a 2016 interview with DIY Photography , he said cassettes were the only permanent form of “digital storage” available to him at the time.

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Worldwide Campaign for Neurorights Notches Its First Win

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constitutional amendment that was passed by the National Congress of Chile and signed by the president, the people of Chile are the first in the world to be granted a new kind of human rights—“neurorights”—which advocates say are made necessary by rapid advances in neurotechnology. The right to personal identity. Thanks to a.

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This Robot Could Be the Key to Helping People With Disabilities

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It was a PR2 , from the robotics company Willow Garage, and Georgia Tech robotics professor Charlie Kemp was demonstrating how the PR2 was able to locate a person and bring them a bottle of medicine. In 2016, Kemp started working on the design of a new robot. It’s small and lightweight, easily movable by one person.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

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So what I’m seeing as a result of what you’re telling me If there was a smart politician down south here there is a wide open position for the person who wants to lead the cavalry charge down here. I know these them, I lived in Japan I know these people, I’ve sat and had conversations with them. I know these folks. That’s pitiful.

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The Electrome: The Next Great Frontier For Biomedical Technology

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The first time it was committed to print is a 2016 paper by this guy called Arnold De Loof , a researcher out in Europe. But when people submit papers or grant applications, I heard more than one researchers say to me— people would look at this electric stuff, and they’d be like, “Does anyone still believe this s**t?”

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