At times when traditional, expensive sources of power are blamed for their impact on the environment, new paths are exploited to mark the beginning of the era of energy independence, even in developing countries where progress is usually delayed by poverty.
While some of the people living in rich nations are eager ... |
18 January 2012
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Before the advent of Tegra 2 and OMAP, Qualcomm's Snapdragon system-on-a-chip stood at the heart of many smartphones out there, so in order to build up some interest for this SoC yet again the company has build one of the most interesting contraptions we have seen to date.It's called the Qualcomm Bug Circus... |
26 October 2011
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Tiltshift Generator is an application that tries to mimic the results of a special camera lens which produces some kind of artistic photographs in which the subject seem to be, in most cases, little toys or just stuff in a really small diorama.Before we start explaining the installation process of this application an... |
27 June 2011
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Every one of us was a child, and passed through a lot of years in school, in order to be prepared for life and for its challenges. But before computers appeared, timetables were merely a piece of paper posted in front of a class, where teachers were noting their hours.With the appearance of computers, however, i... |
19 December 2009
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Money is a very important issue in our society. It was so thousands of years ago, and will continue to be thousands of years from now. It gives life, takes lives and destroys them. So, it is one of the most important aspects of our life, and must be treated cautiously. Since computers became available to everyone, mo... |
21 August 2009
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With the Internet growing bigger and bigger by the day, people have started thinking, what if someone tried to steal precious information from them, like credit card numbers or important phone numbers? Each individual gives another meaning to the useful information, but all of them agree with this: there are some pre... |
18 July 2009
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Although the name dynamo was originally associated with all types of electrical generators, currently it is only used to describe mechanisms capable of producing direct current and small devices used to generate the power running the lights of bicycles (see featured image). A dynamo is basically a device able to conv... |
1 August 2008
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A research team from the German Fraunhofer Institute developed an electronic system that is capable of working with no apparent power source apart from the energy generated by the human body. This kind of power generating system could have a lot of applications in the mobile computing industry alone, where battery li... |
20 August 2007
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A prototype device that cools a computer's processor by creating a wind effect made of charged particles, or ions, was developed by researchers from the Purdue University in Indiana, United States in collaboration with the chip manufacturing company Intel.According to the researchers, the ionic wind that travels... |
15 August 2007
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A fuel cell is an electrochemical energy conversion device. It produces electricity from external supplies of fuel (on the anode side) and oxidant (on the cathode side). These react in the presence of an electrolyte. Generally, the reactants flow in and reaction products flow out while the electrolyte remains in the... |
5 June 2007
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One step closer to a high-yield fusion reactor: a new, revolutionary electrical circuit should carry enough power to produce the long-sought goal of controlled high-yield nuclear fusion. But wait, there's more: it can do it every 10 seconds. Sandia National Laboratories' Z machine is already the largest pr... |
26 April 2007
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