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Drink Detector Tests for Date Rape Drugs

April 6th, 2004 at 11:50 pm » Comments (0)

A simple detector of the three main types of drugs used to spike drinks was launched on Tuesday in an effort to reduce the soaring number of drug rape cases.



A Subwoofer Designed to Blow Women’s Clothes Off

April 6th, 2004 at 11:42 pm » Comments (0)

Royal Device has on its own developed and built the biggest subwoofer of the world for an Audio/Video room that can be also considered as the biggest audio room for private music listening of the world. The audio reproduction is focused on the speakers output capability more than electric power output of the amplifiers with […]



World’s Fastest Recharging Battery

April 6th, 2004 at 11:30 pm » Comments (0)

NEC Corp has developed a battery that can be recharged only in 30 seconds, company sources said. Called an organic radical battery, it can be recharged to the same level of power as that stored in nickel-hydrogen cells, which are widely used in digital cameras, portable MD players and other electronic devices.



Are Computers Ready to Create Mathematical Proofs?

April 6th, 2004 at 11:23 pm » Comments (0)

For six years, mathematicians have pored over hundreds of pages of a paper by Dr. Thomas C. Hales, a professor of mathematics at the University of Pittsburgh.

But Dr. Hales’s proof of the problem, known as the Kepler Conjecture, hinges on a complex series of computer calculations, too many and too tedious for mathematicians reviewing his […]



Introducing the Software Vending Machine

April 6th, 2004 at 11:16 pm » Comments (0)

Planted on a main aisle at a CompUSA store and trimmed in stylish brushed aluminum, the SoftwareToGo machine looks much like a touch-screen ATM. It lets customers search for software titles by name, category or publisher, place an order and then pick it up on a CD at the checkout counter.



Weapons in Space

April 6th, 2004 at 12:06 am » Comments (0)

For all of human history, people have looked at the stars with a sense of wonder. More recently, some U.S. military planners have looked skyward and seen something very different — the next battlefield.