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POPSElectronic Papyrus: The Digital Book, Unfurled The black-and-white display holds about 22 lines of a book page, depending on the font, all shown in the crisp black type provided by technology from E Ink, also used in Amazon’s Kindle and other e-readers. The screen changes from one page to the next in about half a second, at the touch of a thumb.
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POPSThe seeing hand A nice experiment into the way the neural system operates. An autonomous internal dynamics, an autonomous environment, and a meeting line.
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POPS101 Ways To Be Annoying More: 14. Name your dog "Dog." 15. Insist on keeping your car windshield wipers running in all weather conditions "to keep them tuned up." 16. Reply to everything someone says with "that's what YOU think." 17. Claim that you must always wear a bicycle helmet as part of your "astronaut training." 18. Declare your apartment an independent nation, and sue your neighbors upstairs for "violating your airspace". 19. Forget the punchline to a long joke, but assure the listener it was a "real hoot." 20. Follow a few paces behind someone, spraying everything they touch with Lysol. 21. Practice making fax and modem noises. 22. Highlight irrelevant information in scientific papers and "cc:" them to your boss. 23. Make beeping noises when a large person backs up. 24. Invent nonsense computer jargon in conversations, and see if people play along to avoid the appearance of ignorance. 25. Erect an elaborate network of ropes in your backyard, and tell the neighbors
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POPSHumanoid Robot The fascination is double i think, by glimpsing into the future and the technology, the human may have a glimpse on herself.
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POPSWhat Do Women Want? Whatever it is, it's not what they say. When exposed to erotic images of varied sexual orientations, the physical responses of men were consistent with what they said they were feeling. Women, however, frequently reported a response that was at odds with their physical arousal readings. For once, it seems, men are more in touch with their feelings than women. A more thorough explanation, including the down and dirty on bonobo pornography, is at the source. If the link at the top of the clip doesn't work, try http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/magazine/25desire-t.html?_r=3&hp=&pagewanted=all
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POPSRobot Therapy To 'Recharge' Stroke Victims' Arms
The other half are assigned to the robot group. This is less exciting than it sounds. The robot looks more like a garden-variety brace or splint that is strapped to the wrist, elbow or shoulder, depending on which joint is being used. A flat-screen computer monitor displays colorful dancing dots a la 1980s video games. Using a joystick, the patient is challenged to hit moving targets on the screen, using the stroke-weakened arm. If the patient cannot move the arm, the machine helps. If the machine senses any movement by the patient, it backs off, letting the injured arm do more of the work. Even if the patient at first cannot accomplish the task, the very act of thinking that the arm should move, then having it touch the correct target propelled by the robot, starts to restore or rebuild circuits in the brain, said Hermano Igo Krebs, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology-trained mechanical engineer who developed the device known as MIT-Manus.
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POPSAutomated restaurant opens in Germany. For those that can't stand waiters and waitresses. I guess the good thing is that if your order is wrong, there is only 2 people to hold accountable, yourself and the cook....assuming there is still cook that is.
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POPSI Need a Virtual Break... No, Really. This movement to unplug appears to be gaining traction everywhere How about turning off the screen one day a week? “Living a good life requires a kind of balance, a bit of quiet." Unplug yourself once in a while. I am a total addict and the first thing I do in the morning, is to check emails too, while having my morning coffee. Being offline is almost unthinkable, even for a day, but I will work on it, starting tomorrow... or maybe the next day. :oops:
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POPS Future Designer Laptop - ROLLTOP The device of the flexible display allows a new concept in notebook design growing out of the traditional bookformed laptop into unfurling and convolving portable computer. By virtue of the OLED-Display technology and a multi touch screen the utility of a laptop computer with its weight of a mini-notebook and screen size of 13 inch easily transforms into the graphics tablet, which with its 17-inch flat screen can be also used as a primary monitor. On top of everything else all computer utilities from power supply through the holding belt to an interactive pen are integrated in Rolltop. This is really an all-in-one gadget. Category: Science & Technology www.orkin-design.de
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POPSi phone unlocked This kid is what? 17 and he spent 500 hours on this and organized a group effort of expert hackers using special equipment and has collaborated with a number of people including two Russians on how this is done and has now sold the phone on ebay for over $12,000, it cost $499.00 new. Is the world passing me by, whats being put in the milk these days.
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POPS106-year-old voter shares hopes, secrets "When asked about the secret to her longevity, Cooper said, "I don't know how it happened, but being cheerful had a lot to do with it. I've always been a happy person, a giggling person -- a wide-mouthed person!"
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