Archive for October, 2007

Robot That Takes Panoramic Pictures

Sunday, October 14th, 2007

Carnegie Mellon University announced a $300 robot designed to easily enable people to create super-high-resolution panoramic pictures--and a Web site to let anyone in the world dive into them. The GigaPan robot, built by Charmed Labs, can accommodate most compact cameras and is designed to be relatively inexpensive, said Illah Nourbakhsh, ...

Water-Powered Mobiles

Saturday, October 13th, 2007

Samsung Electro-Mechanics announced Thursday that it has developed a micro-fuel cell and hydrogen generator that runs on H2O. “When the handset is turned on, metal and water in the phone react to produce hydrogen gas,” explained Oh Yong-soo, vice president of Samsung Electro-Mechanics’ research center. “The gas is then supplied to ...

Space Solar Power Gets Momentum

Friday, October 12th, 2007

The interest in the space solar power seems to be rising, as the The Space Solar Alliance for Future Energy (SSAFE), a new organization advocating investment in space-based solar power technologies to address the planet's future energy needs, was announced. The coalition of thirteen leading research organizations and space advocacy ...

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