Military Plans Cyborg Sharks
DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Project Agency) has taken another page from science fiction writer William Gibson's book by creating a neural implant to enable engineers to remotely manipulate a shark's brain signals. This would eventually allow ... [... more]
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How Invention Begins: Echoes of Old Voices in the Rise ...
 More than academic: For a while, I was a member of SHOT, the Society for the History of Technology. Although I found a few things of interest, the overwhelming view I gained was of earnest left wing intellecutuals trying to deconstruct everything into [... more]
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Inventions
exceptional: wonderful book I'm fascinated by his thoughts and his incredible intelligence to see his inventions in 3d is exceptional. Author: Leonardo da Vinci Binding: Hardcover EAN: 9781406318289 ISBN: 1406318280 Number Of Pages: 12 Publication Date: [... more]
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Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy and the Order of ...
Interesting but not extremely groundbreaking: First of all, this book doesn't quite live up to its title - I expected Mudimbe to write about the invention of the concept of Africa, which he chose as a topic for his book 'The Idea of Africa.' It also [... more]
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Managing Intellectual Property at Iowa State University ...
Managing Intellectual Property at Iowa State University (1923-1998) [... more]
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The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist ...
Amazon.com Review: British science writer Richard Hamblyn skillfully blends biography with scientific and cultural history to capture for modern readers the remarkable achievement of Luke Howard (1772-1864), the quiet Quaker whose classification of cloud [... more]
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Fantastic Voyage to Save the Heart
A new technique is reminiscent of the 1966 science fiction movie. Their study will appear in the January 2006 issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation. From the study: Narrowed or blocked blood vessels are unable to deliver sufficient ... [... more]
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You Do It: Make Your Own Light Bulb
Want to feel smarter than Edison? Build a lightbulb the modern way with some helium and an old welder. The stick welder provides enough juice to heat the tungsten to nearly 5,000°F, the ice bucket acts as the bulb, and the helium displaces ... [... more]
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New Glasses Double as Hearing Aids
Spectacles with tiny embedded microphones on each side are said to work much better than traditional hearing aids. Schematic of the hearing glasses. The sound signals from the microphones pass through a special processor before they are conducted ... [... more]
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Intelligent Workplace: The Office of the Future
You spend all day there, and if the latest trends in green office architecture catch on you will soon start enjoying your workplace a lot more. Plans for the future office include a spactially flexible environment, in which workstations and ... [... more]
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Digital Newspapers Almost Here
Siemens says it has lowered production costs for paper-thin displays sufficiently to allow their use in newspapers and magazines. Siemens, a German electronics firm, says that it has lowered production costs for paper-thin displays sufficiently ... [... more]
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