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Detect Quakes With “Raspberry Shakes”

Cars That Think

Searching the interwebs, I found no shortage of leads about how to build a DIY seismometer. The problem is that the DIY seismometer designs I was seeing were large and ungainly contraptions. These range from about one cycle per second (1 hertz) down to a fraction of a cycle per second. On 29 August, there was a magnitude-5.5

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Energy Harvesting for Wearable Technology Steps Up

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Which seems plenty attractive to a range of companies and researchers. But we do actually need that energy to be generated,” says Alper Bozkurt, who with Veena Misra codirects the Center for Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies (ASSIST) at North Carolina State University.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

At these prices, people are buying the "environmental feature" -- they want to be among the first owners of the worlds cleanest extended-range vehicles. Today youd do it to be one of the first to drive the worlds cleanest extended range vehicle; in the future, youll do it because its an obvious and affordable win!

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