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IoT-ize Your Old Gadgets With a Mechanical Hijacking Device

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KAIST/Korea Polytechnic University The paper doesn't directly address the cost of the MHD, and with three motors and some other electronics in it, it's not likely to be super cheap. It's also possible to build your own MHD device for cheap , if you know what you're doing.

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QA With Luca Guala of Systemica on Masdars Personal Rapid Transit System

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Green Car Congress had an opportunity to follow up with Luca Guala of Systematica to learn more about the Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) system being applied in Masdar. LG: The current batch of PRT will only serve the [Masdar Institute of Science and Technology] MIST University and a much smaller network. Earlier post.)

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Sheffield engineers use 3D printing for a 1.5m-wide UAV prototype

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Engineers at the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre ( AMRC ) at the University of Sheffield have successfully printed a 1.5m-wide The engineers said the polymer craft could form the basis of cheap and potentially disposable UAVs that could be built and deployed in remote situations potentially within as little as 24 hours.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. MB of data. The thumb drive was all that—and more.

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Remembering the Legacy of Trailblazing Technologist Gordon Moore

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Intel microprocessors now power personal computers made by major manufacturers including Dell , HP , and IBM. From researcher to entrepreneur Moore received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1950 from the University of California, Berkeley. After earning his Ph.D., He served as chairman emeritus until 2006.

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Necrobotics: Dead Spiders Reincarnated as Robot Grippers

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Astonishingly mobile, amazingly efficient, super robust, and in some cases, literally dirt cheap. Bugs have long taunted roboticists with how utterly incredible they are. But making a robot that's insect equivalent is extremely hard—so hard that it’s frequently easier to just hijack living insects themselves and put them to work for us.

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Facebook Steps Toward Cryptocurrencies

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F2's Marcus has said the company plans is instead to use free person-to-person transfers to build up its user base, before branching out to become a more general payment provider and making money on merchant fees. Even with Facebook's massive user base that will take a long time, says Maynard.

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