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POPSThe Lotus Ice Vehicle About the a biofuel-powered Lotus Ice Vehicle, specially developed for research in the Moon-Regan Trans Antarctic Expedition
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POPSGoogle Insights for Search Google has launched an application called Insights for Search. You can provide a couple of terms and let Google show you the search volume for these mapped over time with search frequencies displayed on a world map.
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POPSCool! Nanoparticles Recent results from research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) show that adding the right dash of nanoparticles to standard mixes of lubricants and refrigerants could highly contribute to energy saving in cooling systems.
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POPSMicroscope On A Chip Researchers at Caltech, recently developed the revolutionary new type of microscope without lenses. The devices could be mass-produced at a cost of $10 each and incorporated into large arrays, enabling high-throughput imaging in biology labs. The device is also compact enough to be put in a cell phone and it can use just sunlight for illumination. This makes it very appealing for Third-World applications,
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POPSTH!NK Ox – A Fully Electric Car Think, with more than 17 years of experience in developing and producing electric vehicles is launching one of its models 'The Ox' in North America. The cars will start selling in the US next year but the actual mass roll out is slated for sometime in 2011,
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POPSLumiGram Fiber Optics Fashion and Design LumiGram a French high tech fashion and design company provides a line of fashion tops, table clothes, pillows, sculpture and more with LED illuminated fiber optics creating a colorful glow of light.
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POPSRobofish A realistic robot sea bream developed by engineers at the University of Kitakyushu which glides through the water like a real fish will be released into the sea to perform a wide range of oceanographic survey tasks.
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POPSRoboCup Soccer for Humanoid Robots Videos and some information about the Darmstadt Dribblers, a team of autonomous soccer playing robots, developed by a research group of the Univeristy of Darmstadt.
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POPSAll about Knol Knol is a Google project which aims to include user-written articles on topics ranging from "scientific concepts, to medical information, from geographical and historical, to entertainment, from product information, to how-to-fix-it instructions," After its first alpha phase in December last year is now available to everyone.
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POPSThe DelFly a Dragonfly like Micro Air Vehicle A research team at the Delt University in The Netherlands just launched: the so called the Delfly. a flying robot that looks like a dragonfly and is also comparable in size. It' is equipped with a camera that streams back video to a base station.
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POPSQik -- A Mobile Phone Video Streaming Site, Qik is software that enables you to stream videos directly from your phone to the Web. You can stream videos to your friends in Facebook, Twitter, etc. or as your camcorder to capture entertaining and special moments.
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POPSHybrid Medical's Videos Some examples of high end 3D medical and scientific animations for the pharmaceutical, medical device, healthcare, and biotechnology industries provided by the Minneapolis based Hybrid Medical Animation studeo.
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POPSConverting DNA Structures into Music Highly complex DNA structures can be tranformed into musical sounds, which might eventually be used to monitor sick patients. In the acoustic translation, harmony represents good health, and discord indicates disease. Finally auditory information will allow surgeons, anesthesiologists, and other physicians to be able to focus on their task and listen at the same time.
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POPSThe iBar -- An Amazing Bar Experience Enhance your bar with the iBar system: integrated video-projectors can project any content on the bar-surface and an intelligent tracking system detects all objects touching the surface.
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POPSEdopter Social Trendcasting Edopter is a social website that focus upon trendcasting by combining early adopter insight and worldwide buzz to predict the next big trends.
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POPSWigix the eBay 2.0 Wigix is the new way to buy and sell online. It's a socially-driven marketplace, where you can communicate with like-minded collectors and traders. Get a live pricing history for each item and negotiate prices intelligently. Social communication encourages informed buying.
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POPSHigh Tech Slalom Ski Training A new motion capture system using a network of sensors to detect high speed movement can help skiers to improve their downhill slalom racing techniques
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POPSAbout The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) The Large Hadron Generator (LHC) , at CERN. will become the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator. Its main purpose is to explore the validity and limitations of the standard model, the current theoretical picture for particle physics. Concerns, however, have been raised regarding the safety of the LHC on the grounds that it might produce dangerous phenomena, including micro black holes.
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POPSNissan’s Pivo 2 -- Portugal 2011 Nissan’s futuristic Pivo 2, a “robot assisted” car designed for urban use, that lets you drive backwards and even sideways will be released in Portugal in 2011.
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POPSThe Hollandia Elite bed -- A Bedroom in a Bed Elite bed, the Top model of Hollandia's PLATINUM-LUXE™ Advanced Sleep Systems, is a bed with a DVD/CD changer, iPod docking station, a retractable 32-inch flat panel TV and a surround-sound system, 12 massage programs, telescoping head supporting and an automated head and foot adjustment system
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POPSOptical Illusion Videos A collection of videos about optical illusions with in addition to many examples of static and dynamic illusions also something about the use in advertising, a lecture about scientific aspects, the use in combination with music and finally an animated journey in a world of paradox and illusion.
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POPSGolfzilla -- Play Golf in Google Maps Playing online simulated golf on the world most renown golf courses. This will be possible with Golfzilla, a mashup of Google Map’s Satellite images and a Golf game, developed for the Android powered smartphones which are expected to become available by the end of this year. on smartphones, powered by Google Android
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POPSVirtual Ant Farm for your Desktop The Ant's Life Studio from Bandai in Japan is a virtual interactive ant farm for your desktop. It let's you create colonies of ants who build, create, maintain and survive in 100 different types of nests.
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POPSWebcams on Google Maps See touristic webcams from places all around the world, navigate through 2D or 3D maps or find webcams by tags with Webcams.travel
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POPSGoogle Launches Lively -- 3D Virtual World Google's just launched Web browser plug-in Lively is a 3-D simulation application where users can customize avatars and create environments (rooms) with stuff they pick from a product catalog. The environments can also be embedded in blogs or Web sites.
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POPSBreadcrumbz a Featured Android Application The Android Developer Challenge (ADC) is a Google-sponsored program providing $10 million in total awards for the best mobile apps built on the Android platform. The first phase of the ADC is now complete. 50 teams of developers each received a $25,000 award and the opportunity to compete in the second and final round. One of them is Breadcrumbz a mobile application offering a different kind of navigation, using pictures instead of a map.
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POPSPolaris Poker Bot Defeats Professional Poker Players Polaris, a poker playing program developed by the computer poker research group at the University of Alberta. competed On July 3-6, 2008, against six human professional poker players in the Second Man-Machine Poker Championship, held in Las Vegas. Polaris defeated the human players convincingly with 3 wins, 2 losses and 1 tie.
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POPSKohjinsha SC -- Japan's Eee PC killer Kohjinsha SC, the latest UMPC from Japan is now availlable in an English-language version in the U.S. for $1100. The Kohjinsha SC, featuring a 7" touchscreen, is equipped with the Intel Atom processor clocked at 1.33 GHz, 1GB RAM, 60GB HDD, built-in Wi-Fi and a built-in GPS module.