Ever since Google made Tegra 2 the reference platform for Honeycomb-based tablets, its performance has been the source of great scrutiny, so a hardware review website set on to uncover its GPU capabilities when compared to that of Samsung's Hummingbird SoC, benchmarks showing Nvidia's solution to be faster ... |
21 December 2010
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Researchers at a national laboratory in the United States are currently investigating the flight of hummingbirds using a set of robotic wings, that have been developed in such a manner that they are capable of replicating most features that the diminutive birds have naturally. Though they are not brightly-colored, an... |
22 November 2010
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We've known that the bird's trills are produced by a very complex organ called syrinx, located on their trachea. But a new research published in the "Proceedings of the Royal Society B" journal shows that in fact their chirps may be produced via the most unexpected means. A hummingbird species has been foun... |
1 February 2008
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1.Hummingbirds are found only in Americas, from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego (in the southern tip of South America). Half of the hummingbird species (160) live in the Amazon forest. The northernmost species is the rufous hummingbird (Selasphorus rufus), the only species that reaches Alaska. The southernmost species is ... |
23 October 2007
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Besides being the smallest birds in the world (a Jamaican species, Mellisuga minima, is 6 cm (2.3 inch) long and weighs 2g), hummingbirds have also other peculiar characteristics, like the hovering ability, being the only birds species in the world able to move their wings equally forth and back. Now, to the about 40... |
15 May 2007
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