Taiwan-based mobile phone maker HTC announced on Wednesday that it launched its Android-powered mobile phones HTC Tattoo and HTC Hero in Australia. Both handsets come to the market with the company's own HTC Sense philosophy and technology, and will be exclusively available for purchase from Harvey Norman for a... |
19 November 2009
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Reports are now emerging of a site focused on Near Field Communications that claims Apple has built new iPhone models (prototypes) that are equipped to support sensing RFID chips. RFID (Radio-Frequency IDentification) is a technology that allows a device to sense embedded chips in nearby objects without making direct... |
6 November 2009
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Mobile phone maker HTC Corporation recently released into the wild a brand new user interface, designed for its Android-based HTC Hero, the third mobile phone the company brings under Google's operating system. Since the new UI looks more than appealing, those who already own an HTC Android-powered phone have al... |
29 June 2009
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Plants may not have complex tissues and a nervous system, but they still "feel". If they sprout, develop and flower at the right time and place, that's because they are sensitive to environmental factors. The vegetation boom during each spring shows they obey precise rhythms, which come encoded in their genes. P... |
29 April 2008
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The smell of a certain perfume can make you remember a lost love, while some stenches can bring you back unpleasant memories about an annoying ex co-worker. A new research made at Northwestern University and published in the journal "Science" shows that emotions are strongly connected to the olfactory sense, which ca... |
31 March 2008
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You see, the whiskers of a cat or rat are not adornments, but highly sensitive organs. It appears that much more sensitive than we could think: like a tuned harp, the whiskers of a rat detect various frequencies depending on their structure. In the dark underground sewers and galleries, rats cannot use the sight. Pre... |
28 February 2008
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1.Touch is not a sense, but a complex of senses. It is the last resort, when we want to be sure that the other senses have not cheated us, to see if what we see/hear/smell is really what it seems. The touch comprises our whole body, and includes sensation of pain and temperature. Various senses linked to touch have v... |
28 December 2007
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Touch sensitivity is such a hot feature that it's no surprise to see it being used everywhere, even with Bluetooth headsets. Bluetrek just released Sense, an innovative such device which gets rid of all the old fashioned buttons and manages to really stand out, which is pretty difficult in this line of products.... |
20 November 2007
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The vast majority of the animals, including us, walk forward because they sense what's in front of them. Predators focus on the prey located in front of them. But a small electric fish from the Amazon, the black ghost knifefish (Apteronotus albifrons), just 15 cm (6 in) long, can move also backwards to catch its... |
14 November 2007
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Some say that in a world of senses, taste is the queen. It is a pleasure, but also a protection that can tell the difference between what's good to eat and what could be harmful. Still, taste is so personal, that many have linked it to the personality of the individual. Some are sweet, others are not, and make a... |
7 November 2007
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This is how we investigate the chemical composition of our environment: through smell and taste. 1.The olfactory sensors are located in the upper nose, in the olfactory mucosa. The mucosa contains millions of olfactory cells (ciliated cells). Each ciliated cell contains over 12 cilia. The mucous maintains the humidit... |
9 October 2007
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Brain researches show that we do not have a sole memory and reveal that there are actually various types of memory, differentiated and complementary. The immediate memory lasts just miliseconds, and allows you to memorize rapidly things like a phone number or a name, for example. The working memory is a means of stor... |
9 July 2007
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