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Scientists in the United kingdom are working on creating a new type of paint that could be applied as a coating of the normal stuff, but would have the ability to render chemical attacks useless. The research work associated with producing the new asset is being done at the UK Defense Science and Technology Laborator... |
26 October 2009
18:01 GMT |
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Researchers at the University of California in Riverside (UCR) have managed to successfully design a mechanism that can help induce rapid color modifications to materials being subjected to a magnetic field. The microscopic polymer beads have the ability to shift their orientation according to the direction of the ma... |
17 June 2009
16:31 GMT |
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New evidence brought forth in studies seems to indicate the fact that the bright and shiny-white marbles on the triangular gables of the Athenian Parthenon were in the past brightly colored, and that the paintings most likely covered the entire surface of the temple. A team of experts from the British Museum in Londo... |
16 June 2009
05:02 GMT |
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Softpedia has learned that the cover of the June 1, 2009 edition of the New Yorker magazine will feature a picture drawn by artist Jorge Columbo, who only used his iPhone to achieve what you see pictured left. This is the first time a magazine's cover is completely drawn using the Apple handset. While there are... |
26 May 2009
04:47 GMT |
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University of Southern Mississippi (USM) scientists have just developed a new class of paint that can easily heal itself, and can also fix scratches left behind by keys, screws and other such devices. They say that, with their new polyurethane film paint, the scratch will “magically” disappear within a s... |
13 March 2009
10:18 GMT |
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They're referred to by a variety of labels, including applets, applications, programs, and tools, but fact is that a range of software items are so much a part of Windows' fabric that they have come to inherently be associated with default components of the operating system. Calc (Calculator), Paint (MS Pai... |
28 January 2009
10:29 GMT |
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A team of chemistry specialists from the Warwick University has obtained a novel material that has an extremely high versatility and can be produced on a large scale with existing equipment. Their material is made up of tiny polymer particles covered by silica-based nanoparticle layers, and the end result can be used... |
26 November 2008
16:01 GMT |
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The latest association between the scientists from a UK university and the steel industry yielded a photovoltaic paint which, when applied on steel, produces energy.The photovoltaic paint is formed of a paste mix of electrolytes and dye which can be spread on sheets of steel, four layers of paint per sheet. When expo... |
2 October 2008
06:00 GMT |
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The scratches of a car could soon be repaired with no stress, as Japanese researchers came up with a colorless car body paint that heals scratches by itself. Every driver in the world dreads off-road encounters with thorny bushes, children's playing with sharp things close to their cars or overzealous car w... |
27 September 2008
04:14 GMT |
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It is said that children have an amazing imagination by default and that they are able to recreate in their mind even the most complicated details of a story. Events and things that are insignificant to an adult fire up a child's imagination and incredible creatures come to life in the blink of an eye. Plopp is ... |
30 July 2008
12:56 GMT |
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What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear: solar-energy powered cars? Let me guess... big ugly solar panels, right? That's about to change real quick, so say a couple of researchers from the United Kingdom. Instead of using solid heavy large silicon solar panels, scientists propose the use of... |
7 March 2008
10:34 GMT |
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Just finished writing about a too-good-to-be-true story and while this here image would have you thinking the same thing, I can assure you that this is not the case. You can indeed pimp out your MacBook Air to look like the one in the image to the left, or even better, but it's gonna cost you. Oh, it's gonn... |
19 February 2008
07:02 GMT |
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That piece of canvas has been causing a lot of morbid curiosity. Since ever, artists and scientists have been puzzled by the identity of Mona Lisa (La Gioconda), the mysterious woman in Leonardo da Vinci's painting. Leonardo never made any notes about the model's identity himself, and this triggered the mys... |
16 January 2008
06:27 GMT |
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If some people immortalize their own semen in their paintings, others go deeper into the morbid side. Artist Robert Sherer, from Georgia, makes his painting using HIV positive and negative blood, to trigger a warning signal on the HIV epidemic. Last week, Sherer opened an exhibition featuring his masterworks made of... |
15 January 2008
14:06 GMT |
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The real Da Vinci code has been found, but this time it comes with a different view than the one we know from Dan Brown's book or some Hollywood movies. Giovanni Maria Pala, 45, an Italian musician and computer technician from Lecce (southern Italy) has uncovered (at least he says so) musical notes encoded in th... |
12 November 2007
05:05 GMT |
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The mysterious smile of Mona Lisa (Gioconda) now has run out of secrets, at least for the scientists. What made the paintings of the Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci (April 15, 1452 - May 2, 1519) so special was the fact that he did not mix the colors on the palette but directly on the canvas, as found by an Ital... |
3 September 2007
04:49 GMT |
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After the launch of the colorful line of notebooks that received the name XPS M1330, Dell starting having problems with the quality of the paint finish that was applied on the notebook casings and after many delays and a considerable number of unhappy customers, the hardware manufacturing company decided to cut the n... |
27 August 2007
09:37 GMT |
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Paint in Windows Vista has evolved to the level where it can now rival Adobe's Photoshop Creative Suite 3 on equal terms. Don't believe me? Then just watch the video embedded at the bottom. It will offer a new vista, I mean a new perspective over Paint. In this context Adobe's strategy to delay offerin... |
27 August 2007
05:11 GMT |
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Along its long carrier as one of the most successful computer hardware manufacturers and vendors, Dell occasionally encountered some bumps in the road like failing supply chains or unresponsive customer service. Now there is a new bump to add to Dell's list: dust. A while back, the company announced a brand new ... |
14 August 2007
06:44 GMT |
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A new discovery in the world of nanotechnology led to the production of a hard wearing and fireproof paint, by replacing the soap used to stabilize latex emulsion paints with nanotech sized clay armor. Latex is used in paint because it solidifies by coalescence of the polymer particles as the water evaporates and th... |
27 July 2007
06:37 GMT |
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As businesses and government facilities using wireless networks struggle to keep their confidential data in and hackers out, it seems that WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) and even WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) may soon be obsolete and replaced by the newest high-tech protection: paint.The EM-SEC Coating System, a recen... |
26 March 2007
07:03 GMT |
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