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Augmented Reality One Step Closer to Coming True

When most people say augmented reality, they immediately think about video games, where this system could make the gaming experiences much more rich. Television and movies jump to mind immediately afterwards, but researchers are now imaging a use for AR that surpasses all that. They argue that a large number of car c...

24 October 2009
05:44 GMT

Safer, Blast-Resistant Glass Designed at UMC

Experts from the University of Missouri-Columbia (UMC) have recently announced the creation of a new type of blast-resistant glass, which they advertise as being much more efficient in absorbing and reducing the impact strength of explosions than the existing varieties already on the market. The new material will als...

11 September 2009
03:42 GMT

Copenhagen to Become 'Greenest' City in the World

Denmark and Holland are known around the world for their love of bicycles, which have become an important part of their culture. But the Danish capital, Copenhagen, which is to host the UN Climate Change summit later this year, is vowing to take its already-amazing love for the environment a step further. Authorities...

28 August 2009
04:25 GMT

New Mining Safety Standards to Be Implemented Worldwide

Just recently, the Mackay-based company Mining Logic Solutions has signed a contract with the Queensland University of Australia, which awarded it with the license to produce the new Nexsys™ real-time risk-management system, to be implemented at a global scale. The new system is expected to boost mine productiv...

20 May 2009
17:01 GMT

Morphing Cars Could Save the Lives of the Pedestrians They Hit

Researchers in the automotive industry start to focus their efforts on the safety of pedestrians as well, rather than continuing to laden the inside of vehicles with numerous safety features, such as seat belts, airbags and automatic driver-assist systems. The concern is caused by the fact that even collisions that t...

16 April 2009
11:03 GMT

Drivers Move Safely Across Gravel Roads

Most gravel roads across the United States have circulation signs that caution or force drivers to reduce speed to a certain level, so as to avoid accidents and drivers getting caught unprepared by unexpected slides of their vehicles. Despite the federal regulations on the matter, researchers have learned that peop...

11 April 2009
06:59 GMT

Safety Concerns over In-Flight Entertainment Systems

Having a comfortable flight can often depend on such an apparently insignificant thing as being offered the option of choosing between tens of movies, shows or music tracks. Enter in-flight entertainment systems, which offer customers a wide range of choices. They also expose the same customers to the danger of losin...

23 March 2009
08:11 GMT

Man Crashes Car in Church Attic

A German driver accidentally became a very good stunt man on Monday, when he managed to plunge his automobile into a church roof in the eastern part of the country. That's not to say the church was somehow buried and the Skoda vehicle simply rolled passed it. The roof was standing 7 meters (22 feet) tall, like a...

27 January 2009
03:05 GMT

Older Drivers Less Likely to Crash

According to new official statistics, elderly drivers are far less likely than young ones to be involved in fatal collisions and other serious car accidents. The find comes as a surprise, as the children who were once part of the “boomer” generation are now becoming mature. And while there still are the o...

15 January 2009
05:50 GMT

Cosmetics Safety Myths Busted

For us ladies, makeup is an integral part of our lives, just like water or air are. It's natural, therefore, to want to know more about its ingredients and their potential long-term side effects it may have on our health, especially since there are makeup products such as foundation, powder and eyeshadow that ma...

11 June 2008
11:41 GMT

Naked Pictures via Xbox and PS3, Children and Parents Shocked

There are voices that continue to claim that the online gaming (either on the classic PCs or on Xbox or PS3) is nothing but a heaven for child abusers, pedophiles and other sex freaks and, of course, part of that is true. We had a stalker a few months ago that went after a 15 years old girl, other people consider the...

10 March 2008
06:12 GMT

Warning! Dangerous Toys Online!

With the holiday shopping season about to start, the online merchants are trying to do anything is possible to obtain higher revenues and sell their products. Web User News today informs about the risk of buying toys which were actually recalled by manufacturers due to some dangerous features which could harm the saf...

13 November 2007
14:31 GMT

Computer Tomography Used in Car Crash Testing Will Improve Passenger Safety

Current crash-test performed on cars involve using crash test dummies fitted with up to 30 sensors than record impact forces in various points of the body and high-speed cameras. The dummies are full-scale replicas of human beings, weighted and articulated to simulate the behavior of a human body and instrumented t...

7 May 2007
16:06 GMT


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