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Google's GeoEye-1 Satellite

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:53:04 GMT

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clipper's remarks: GeoEye Inc successfully launched its new GeoEye-1 satellite, which will provide Google Earth users and others the highest-resolution commercial color satellite imagery on the market.

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Google Earth gets a new space eye

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About the GeoEye-1 Satellite

The GeoEye-1 Satellite sensor was developed by GeoEye and features the most sophisticated technology ever used in a commercial remote sensing system.

GeoEye-1 is capable of acquiring image data at 0.41 meter panchromatic (B&W) and 1.65 meter multispectral resolution. It also features a revisit time of less than three days, as well as the ability to locate an object within just three meters of its physical location.

This newly developed sensor is optimized for large projects, as it can collect over 350,000 square kilometers of pan-sharpened multispectral satellite imagery every day.

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GeoEye-1 Satellite Images

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» About the GeoEye-1 Satellite Sensor
» Download the High Resolution Image
» More Images from GeoEye-1

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Launch of the GeoEye-1 satellite aboard a Delta II Rocket

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Breaking: Satellite for Google Earth Blasts off in Californi

an unedited animation provided by GeoEye of the satellite and the means by which it scans images of earth.

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Tags: google, geoeye, satellite, google earth, technology

Holographic television to become reality

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:24:18 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "It took us a while to make that first breakthrough, but as soon as you have the first element of it working the rest often comes more rapidly," he said. "What we are doing now is trying to make the model better. What we showed is just one color, what we are doing now is trying to use three colors. The original display was four inches by four inches and now we're going for something at least as big as a computer screen."

There are no more great barriers to overcome now, he said.

The breakthrough has made some long-time researchers of the technology believe that it could now come to fruition.

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Picture this: you're sat down for the Football World Cup final, or a long-awaited sequel to the "Sex and the City" movie and you're watching all the action unfold in 3-D on your coffee table

It sounds a lot like a wacky dream, but don't be surprised if within our lifetime you find yourself discarding your plasma and LCD sets in exchange for a holographic 3-D television that can put Cristiano Ronaldo in your living room or bring you face-to-face with life-sized versions of your gaming heroes.

The reason for renewed optimism in three-dimensional technology is a breakthrough in rewritable and erasable holographic systems made earlier this year by researchers at the University of Arizona.

Dr Nasser Peyghambarian, chair of photonics and lasers at the university's Optical Sciences department, told CNN that scientists have broken a barrier by making the first updatable three-dimensional displays with memory.

Tags: holographic tv

GeoEye-1, Google's Satellite Sends First Image

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:43:41 GMT

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clipper's remarks: In an interview for Wired magazine, GeoEye's vice president of communications and marketing, Mark Brender, explained, “This is the opposite of a spy satellite. Spies don't put info on the Internet and sell imagery. We're an Earth-imaging satellite, and we can sell our imagery to customers around the world who have a need to map and measure and monitor things on the ground. We're commercializing a technology that was once only in the hands of the governments. Just like the internet, just like GPS, just like telecom – all invented by the government. And now we are on the front end of the spear that is commercializing this technology.”

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The picture shows a high resolution view of Kutztown University in Pennsylvania

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Since its launch, on September 6^th this year, Google's top-notch satellite has constantly been fine-tuned in order to get even more accurate results. The ultra-high definition images that it is able to provide make GeoEye-1 the world's best commercial satellite.

The state-of-the-art device's first public attempt consisted of a top-down accurate view of Pennsylvania's Kutztown University

Google's next satellite, GeoEye-2, will be able to provide 25-centimeter resolution images, but Google will still be restricted to their 50-centimeter limitations. The launch of GeoEye-2 is set for sometime in 2011 or 2012.

Cuba's contribution to public health

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:39:13 GMT

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clipper's remarks: If Cuba can do this, why can't the USA and Canada?

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Cuba breaks national record with 200,000 medical students
Brazil Sun
Thursday 9th October, 2008
(IANS)

Cuba broke its record for domestic and foreign students studying medical sciences in the communist island country, with a total of 200,000 this year, the Communist Party daily Granma reported citing public health ministry sources.

Close to 23,000 of the students are foreigners, most of them coming from developing countries, Granma said, claiming that this is a result of the Cuban government's 'traditional policy of internationalistic solidarity.'

Cuba holds its free health system as a flagship government programme. At Cuban universities medical sciences include medicine, stomatology (study of mouth and its diseases), nursing, health technology and health psychology.

Cuba has four medical science institutes, 24 schools of medicine, four of stomatology and four devoted to nursing and technology, Granma said. More than 26,000 people teach medical science courses on the island.

Tags: cuba, medicine

2057 - The World

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:03:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Educational video about what scientists and technology developers have accomplish and plan to have accomplished by 2057

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Tags: education

history of the computer

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:04:35 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "Everyone knows that technology is more expensive when it first comes out. When we compare the availability and cost of personal computers in 1977 to 2008, we can begin to see how much cheaper technology is available for today." This is interesting article and im gonna save it refer it to others in future.

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Why is this important? Everyone knows that technology is more expensive when it first comes out. When we compare the availability and cost of personal computers in 1977 to 2008, we can begin to see how much cheaper technology is available for today. And when we begin to understand this, revolutionary ideas like the $100 laptop come about.

Tags: computers

"World needs a vacation from USA"

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:42:35 GMT

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clipper's remarks: He called for immediate technology transfer from the West to the Third World, to allow development based on clean technology — stressing the need to “reject intellectual property rights”.

funds should not be distributed through the World Bank, which was trying to regain legitimacy by portraying itself as a “climate bank” while continuing to push fossil-fuel-driven development.

Confronting global poverty and climate change means confronting US power.
“I don’t think the world needs US leadership”, he said. “They should be more humble.”

Whether the US achieves its goals “is where we, as civil society come in”, Bello said, suggesting that, by making intervention costly for the US, civil society could encourage a “new US isolationism”.

The struggle is, he stressed, global. “The world needs a vacation from the messaianism of the US … A few decades of a self-absorbed US would be very good for the world.”

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Walden Bello: ‘World needs a vacation from US’

Speaking at the inaugural Ted Wheelwright Memorial Lecture for the Sydney University Department of Political Economy on September 1, Filipino anti-globalisation activist and academic Walden Bello, founding director of Focus on the Global South, contrasted the recent Beijing Olympics with the US Democrats national convention.

He said that “despite the glitter of both”, the one reflected that China had “had a few bad centuries but was back on its feet” while the other reflected that the US was in a “10-year downward spin that would only get worse under continued Republican rule”.

Imperial overreach

Having failed to learn the lesson of its defeat in Vietnam, that it takes “more than heavy firepower to control a country”, the US had exposed its weakness in its wars against Iraq and Afghanistan.

China

“China was one of the main beneficiaries of the Bush administration’s adventuring”

Redistributing wealth and power

Rocket Racing League

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 15:35:36 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The Rocket Racing League (RRL) is a futuristic sports league combining the exhilaration of racing with the power of rocket engines

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Rocket Racing League

The Rocket Racing League is a proposed racing league that would use rocket powered aircraft. The formation of the league was announced by Granger Whitelaw two time Indy 500 winning team owner and Peter Diamandis, founder of the Ansari X-Prize, on October 3, 2005, in partnership with the Reno Air Races. According to Diamandis, the purpose of the league is to "inspire people of all ages to once again look up into the sky and find inspiration and excitement."

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Rocket Racing League - Teaser

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Rocket engines are provided through multiple engine manufacturers who serve as technology partners to the League, augmenting its own staff in the primary technology areas of airframe, avionics and engine integration. Currently the two engine technology partners are Armadillo Aerospace and XCOR Aerospace.

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Test flight of RRL Rocket Racer with Armadillo Aerospace eng

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XCOR Rocket Racer flight test

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GALLERY:

Tags: rocket, racing, rrl, rocket racing league, flight

Biologically inspired unique design

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:47:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Wow, that would be the day...
the idea of taking 2 concepts (e.g. biology, technology) and paralleling them is nice. The kissing borders may yield anew synthesis

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Immune System For Electronics? Electronics That Can Diagnose And Heal Themselves Under Development

The project is called SABRE (Self-healing cellular Architectures for Biologically-inspired highly Reliable Electronic systems)

Electronic hardware designers have achieved fantastic levels of reliability so far but, as such devices become more and more complex, such instances can only become more common.

Increasingly, our lives are intertwined with digital electronic equipment.

look for ways to create electronic systems based on a structure of ‘cells’ which have the ability to work together to defend system integrity, diagnose faults, and heal themselves.

Currently, those few electronic systems that are designed to be fault-tolerant either replicate whole sub-systems at a high level in the overall architecture (similar to having two lungs), or roll back to a simpler, safer mode when there is a malfunction

body are able to deal with malfunctions at a much lower level

Tags: technology, immune system, biology

CLIX bicycle wheel quick-release system

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:22:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This would do away with our periodic arguments.
Me: Hey, that's not how to tighten a quick-release lever. You need to...
Him: Yeah, I don't care.
Me: It's a safety issue. Your wheel isn't secure.
Him: Yeah, I don't care.
Me: ARRRRGH!

This new quick-release claims to be "literally fool-proof". Hey, sweetie!

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The CLIX bicycle wheel release system, winner of a Eurobike Design Award, is an innovative quick release system that makes taking your bikes front wheel on and off faster, easier and more intuitive.

The development of this new technology was inspired by the frequent misuse of the traditional quick release system. Bicycles with the CLIX QR from CLIX Systems, Inc. are revolutionizing the cycling industry from the casual rider to the performance racer.

“The almost 80-year run of Campagnolo’s original quick-release could be coming to a close.”

-Bicycle Retailer Magazine

“...a really innovative quick release system that is literally fool-proof.”

-Bike Europe Magazine

> Other News and Endorsements

and other bicycles. Click here for model listings.

Tags: bikes, bike-accessories, bike-wheels, quick-release

Wireless at Fiber Speeds

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:17:29 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Richard Ridgway, a senior researcher at Battelle, says that the technique could be used to send huge files across college campuses, to quickly set up emergency networks in a disaster, and even to stream uncompressed high-definition video from a computer or set-top box to a display.

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New millimeter-wave technology sends data at 10 gigabits per second.

There's no shortage of demand for faster wireless, but today's fastest technologies--Wi-Fi, 3G cellular networks, and even the upcoming WiMax--max out at tens or hundreds of megabits per second. So far, no commercial wireless system can beat the raw speed of optical fiber, which can carry tens of gigabits per second.

One way to achieve faster speeds is to harness the millimeter-wavelength frequency of the wireless spectrum, although this usually requires expensive and very complex equipment. Now, engineers at Battelle, a research and development firm based in Columbus, OH, have come up with a simpler way to send data through the air with millimeter-wave technology. Earlier this year, in field tests of a prototype point-to-point system, the team was able to send a 10.6-gigabit-per-second signal between antennas 800 meters apart. And more recently, the researchers demonstrated a 20-gigabit-per-second signal in the lab.

Tags: technology, wireless, communication, network

The World's Greatest Aviation Innovations

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:32:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: 9. The flying wing -- Yves Rossy keeps breaking records and defying expectations with his 8-foot-diameter, carbon composite flying wing. Last week he made a successful 13 minute, 125 mph trip across the English Channel.

10. Stealth aircraft -- What's cooler than a plane that can outsmart radar? Because the surfaces of a stealth are designed to absorb radio waves or reflect them away from the receiver, stealth planes can sneak in and sneak out undetected. Too bad they're so expensive: The 21 plane B-2 program cost over $45 billion.
11. Jetway -- Another one most of us don't think about is the long covered walkway the connects our departure gate with our plane.
12. Deicing -- Ice buildup is the cause of many fatal aircraft accidents, which is why applying monopropylene de-icing fluid to wings pre-flight has become standard operating procedure.

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It seems all news is bad news when it comes to aviation these days, and it's too bad because it overshadows just how wonderful it is that we can fly. Think about it -- 100 years ago, few could imagine it. Today we take it for granted.

1. Cabin pressurization -- The average passenger doesn't think about cabin pressurization until their yellow safety masks fall from the ceiling, but the reality is that if the technology hadn't been developed during WWII, we wouldn't be able to fly much above 10,000 feet.

2. Black Box -- Morbid but essential, the black box was invented in the mid-1950s,

3. The Concorde

4. Radar -- Sure, the airlines are dying to replace it with GPS technology, but for decades it's been radar that helps air traffic controllers locate and track planes up to 200 miles away.

5. The jumbo jet

6. The hub and spoke system

8. Winglets

The small upward-pointing extensions at the tips of aircraft wings reduce drag, improve climb performance, increase range,

Tags: technolgy, aviation

Google's New Blog Tracking Service

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 18:42:50 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Google launches a new blog search tool which organizes the news covered by weblogs. It divides the posts in categories and shows how many different blogs have written about a particular topic within what period of time.

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Google launches blog tracking service

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) — Google has launched an enhanced blog tracking service that helps people mine a growing mountain of online commentary for gems worth reading.

The Google Blog Search tool rolled out this week competes with Techmeme, Polymeme, Wikio and other "memetrackers" that sort and organize blog posts into categories.

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Today, we're pleased to launch a new homepage for Google Blog Search so that you too can browse and discover the most interesting stories in the blogosphere. Adapting some of the technology pioneered by Google News, we're now showing categories on the left side of the website

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and organizing the blog posts within those categories into clusters, which are groupings of posts about the same story or event.

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Tags: google, blogs, search, news, internet, tools, online

Play MP3s in Gmail

Wed, 01 Nov 2006 15:38:08 GMT

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Play MP3s in Gmail

Reader Eryan discovered that Gmail can play MP3s uploaded using the Firefox plug-in Gspace.

Tags: technology, email, gmail, google, mp3, music, entertainment

Mobile phone tracker site! Track your gfriend/bfriend

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:22:22 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I used this to track my girlfriends number, gives accurate readings to the meter, well worth a try, i could'nt believe it! Did'nt think it was possible. I put my own number in and it found me on a map within seconds. Fast free and very interesting! Works worldwide
http://www.planetcreation.co.uk/sat-gps

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THE USE OF THIS SYSTEM IS FOR INFORMATIVE PURPOSES ONLY,
WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ITS ABUSE BY THE USER.

GSM mobile phone tracking system via the GPS-TRACK satellite network

Based on repeater triangulation, the system tracks mobile phones using GPS and GSM technology

We are not responsible for possible tracking errors that may occur

Approximate margin of error:

10 meters (max.) for mobile phones in Europe and the U.K.
25 meters (max.) for mobile phones in the U.S.A., South America and Canada.
50 meters (max.) for mobile phones elsewhere.
This system will not work in countries without GSM technology networks.

Tags: mobile, phone, tracker, sat, gps, spy, surveillance, monitor, boyfriend, girlfriend, new, technology