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Robot scientists lend a hand to internet chat - News.com.au
SCIENTISTS have lent web chat a helping hand by creating a remote-control limb that can grip, shake and gesture over the internet. The robotic hand, made by researchers at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, can act out the movements of someone on the other side of the world. It costs about $US50 ($54) to build and is controlled by a bracelet that picks up electric signals in the muscles of the wearer. Lead researcher Professor Liu Yunhui says: “Due to residential...
April, 18 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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I hate it when news media online do this!
I really hate this sometimes. You know, when they right something and very much on purpose leave out detail simply to get attention. Of course it is on purpose, its what news media and journalism is about....the good ol' hook of course. Well I can still hate it! The following shows the top stories featured on the news.com.au website this afternoon. The second story sounds rather nasty, gory, and yet needing a read - surely - I am a rubber-necker like all of you - lets be...
January, 28 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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Is that a Budgie in your pocket? No really? Is it?
Now lets not confuse Budgies! It could turn out to be a little embarrassing. But the Smugglers should never be seen as embarrassing! The good ole "cock-jock" or "budgie-smuggler" is a part of Australian identity (among lots of other things of course) and should be celebrated! Like the plagues of Queensland, it will be quite the site when the world record is attemped on Guinness World Records Day...
November, 2 2009 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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I am NOT a God Particle - and did you know? The Large Hadron Collider is 'being sabotaged from the future'
The world's biggest atom-smasher could be jinxed by a future force to protect the world, scientists say / AP In a bizarre sci-fi theory, Danish physicist Dr Holger Bech Nielsen and Dr Masao Ninomiya from Japan claim the LHC startup has been delayed due to nature trying to prevent it from finding the elusive Higgs boson, or "God particle". Last year, Professor Brian Cox of Manchester University told the UK Telegraph that LHC scientists had received threatening emails and...
October, 19 2009 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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Holly Wood dies in Perth, aged 68
HOLLY Wood, veteran social writer with The Sunday Times, died this morning after a long battle with cancer. The much-loved social scene writer was 68. Affectionately known in the industry as "Holly'', the popular columnist with The Sunday Times was well known and respected in Perth's fashion, charity and social world. Holly will be remembered as much for his work with Perth charities, as his contribution to the media. A private man who partied with the stars Holly partied...
October, 17 2009 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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Magda Szubanski (pron: Shubarn-ski) - in GNW attack on cyclists
Magda Szubanski in Good News Week attack on cyclists By Daniel Hoy and Siobhan Duck - Herald Sun (October 02, 2009 12:01am) Magda Szubanski said drivers should open their doors to hit cyclists / Channel Ten COMEDIAN Magda Szubanski has been forced to apologise for a scathing attack on cyclists, where she encouraged drivers to knock them over with their car doors. Appearing on Channel Ten's Good News Week, Szubanski accused cyclists of using Melbourne...
October, 1 2009 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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I want to be more than an ornament!
Play Britain's Prince William is seen through a laboratory window extracting DNA from a mosquito during a visit to officially open the Darwin Centre, at the Natural History Museum in central London / Reuters PRINCE William says he wants to be more than a royal "ornament" by being proactive in his charity work.The second in line to the throne has told the BBC in a rare interview how he and younger brother Harry have been inspired by their parents and the...
September, 23 2009 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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Rub-on 'Super Viagra' cream works
SCIENTISTS are developing a cream that promises to act faster than Viagra - and without the side effects. PerthNow reports the lotion is said to produce almost instant results, unlike anti-impotence tablets which can take 30 minutes to an hour before taking effect. via news.com.au ...perhaps its the rubbing? You can by KY now and I bet its a lot cheaper! ;) *Joking* Its good to see more scientific developments to help the poor blokes who can't...
September, 22 2009 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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Mars attacks Sydney!
Orange haze blankets Sydney as city, NSW shrouded by dust Dust blankets Sydney, parts of NSW Residents wake to orange haze RESIDENTS of Sydney and parts of New South Wales have awoken to scenes likened to "armageddon", with limited visibility and orange skies. via news.com.au And an amazing site for Sydney-siders this morning. Being the Spring Equinox makes it all that bit more "apocalyptical" ;) Sylvestor www.twitter.com/Sylvestor
September, 22 2009 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
Me and my profession
