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The Marimba Virtuoso’s Desktop Planetarium

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patent application for a “new and improved orrery,” Musser mentioned the importance of showing the asteroid belt, in light of growing interest in space travel beyond the moon and Mars. A translucent screen had astronomical labels and markings inscribed in phosphorus, visible only when backlit with ultraviolet light. In his 1958 U.S.

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The Cheesy Charm of the Clapper

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This 1980s earworm of a jingle touted a gadget to turn your lights, your TV, or any other electrical device on or off with the clap of your hands. In 1985, Peter Liljequist and Kou Chen filed a Canadian patent for an acoustic switch for turning lights and other appliances on and off. The Clapper!” His biggest hit was the Chia Pet.

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Tesla owners’ photo mosaic will be sent to space in SpaceX flight this August

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Refer more friends while you wait for an alien race to discover your payload,” Tesla wrote. Needless to say, Tesla’s laser-etched photo mosaic is definitely interesting — possibly even confounding any extraterrestrial that may find it floating around in space sometime in the future. Don’t hesitate to contact us with news tips.

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Lewis H. Latimer: A Life of Lightbulb Moments

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Before failing eyesight forced him into retirement in 1922 at age 74, he had proved himself the definition of a renaissance man. This highly detailed mechanical drawing of an Edison lamp appeared in Latimer’s 1890 book “Incandescent Electric Lighting.” He even mastered the glassblowing techniques then used to produce lightbulbs.

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Study finds no benefit to delaying or weakening ZEV policies to drive transition to electric drive

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Baker Center for Public Policy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Oak Ridge National Laboratory concludes that starting the California ZEV (Zero Emission Vehicle) mandates five years earlier or doubling their intensity increases upfront costs but also increases benefits by a greater amount. A study by a team from the Howard H.

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This 1920 Chess Automaton Was Wired to Win

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Torres Quevedo invented his electromechanical device in 1912 and publicly debuted it at the University of Paris two years later. Its Definition. Torres Quevedo hoped his chess player would shed some light on the matter, but I think he just opened a Pandora’s box of questions. Si definición.

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What Robotics Experts Think of Tesla’s Optimus Robot

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Assistant Professor, University of Toronto. The current locomotion stack is not using any machine learning, but rather trajectory optimization using reference controllers. This is a sensible design choice to get up and running, but would definitely need redoing for longer-term operation. BACK TO TOP ↑ ]. Animesh Garg.

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