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Plantronics Voyager PRO HD Wireless Headset Not Shy About Its Size

Headsets come in many shapes and sizes, depending on what they are meant for and what price they are supposed to hold close to, and Plantronics just revealed its newest Voyager series, one that doesn't mind sporting a larger size than most. The Plantronics Voyager PRO HD is the latest wireless headset that P...

11 October 2011
05:01 GMT

Voyager Probes Reach Solar System Boundaries

In a life briefing held on Thursday, April 28, officials at the American space agency said that the two Voyager space probes NASA launched more than three decades ago are now nearly at the edge of the solar system. The instruments are still operational, even after all this time. These two spacecraft are the farthest ...

29 April 2011
03:16 GMT

Voyager Mission Gets New Project Manager

Officials at NASA announce that Suzanne Dodd is the new manager of the Voyager mission, whose two spacecrafts are currently making their way to the edge of our solar system.The expert is based at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California. When she first started working for the lab, back in 198...

30 October 2010
05:41 GMT

Sun to Enter Huge, Hot Cloud of Interstellar Gas

Astronomers announce that they've recently discovered a worrying fact – our Sun, and with it the entire solar system, including Earth – is heading for contact with a massive, hot cloud of interstellar gas. The meet-up will take place within the next 100 years or so, and the event will represent the c...

26 May 2010
11:07 GMT

Valentine from Voyager: 20 Years and Counting

The Voyager-1 space probe is most likely one of the most famous machines ever sent into space by NASA. Its name is synonymous with space exploration, and it is currently located far beyond our solar system, investigating the deep Universe. Exactly 20 years ago, on February 14, 1990, the probe sent back its last Valen...

13 February 2010
06:41 GMT

128GB Flash Voyager GTR from Corsair Debuts

For a while, Corsair has been serving consumers worldwide with high-quality flash drives, such as the 128GB Flash Voyager GT pen drive that was, for a time, hailed as one, if not the fastest pen drive. This title is now going to a different product, also released by Corsair, known as the 128GB Flash Voyager GTR. Whil...

3 February 2010
02:59 GMT

Voyager Figures Out Why the Local Fluff Exists

As the planets swirl around the Sun, the entire solar system is passing at this point through a huge interstellar cloud called the Local Fluff. The problem with this is the fact that basic physics dictates that the cloud shouldn't be there. This inconsistency doesn't actually stop the cloud from being there...

29 December 2009
06:32 GMT

VectorLinux 6.0 Is Out

The team behind VectorLinux announced yesterday the release of VectorLinux Standard Edition 6.0, codenamed Voyager. The default installation runs the Xfce 4.4.3 desktop environment, with an option to install the lightweight LXDE. For a more extended user-base, the localization was much improved in this version, cover...

23 February 2009
04:31 GMT

Voyager 2 Confirms Asymmetric Heliosphere Theory

Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are two of the most important spacecrafts in the history of space and solar system exploration, and currently the only two man-made objects to go beyond the limits of the solar system. Voyager 1 crossed the termination shock, the area of space where solar wind and interstellar radiation collid...

3 July 2008
03:20 GMT

Other Star Systems in Danger of Being Contaminated with Earth Life

There are already several tens of spacecrafts wandering through the solar system, each one a possible carrier of microbes originating on Earth. It's no secret that some life forms on Earth are extremely resilient to space radiation and may possibly reach other planets and their moons to colonize them. In the cas...

24 May 2008
06:10 GMT

Rumor: LG Voyager From AT&T and Sprint Too

Exclusively available in the US from Verizon Wireless, the second largest mobile carrier in the US, LG Voyager could be soon offered by AT&T and Sprint too, the first and respectively the third largest North American operators. According to Electronic Times Korea, an "official of LG" said the South Korean company p...

15 April 2008
10:48 GMT

Star Trek to Get Scientific Support

If SciFi movies haven't given a boost to science and technology, then I don't know what could have. Remember the Alcubierre warp drive? Yep, you guessed it, Star Trek warp drives were already working by the time Alcubierre calculated the physical theory on how to make such a devices work in 1994; not only t...

12 February 2008
09:31 GMT

Saturn's Moon Reveals the Presence of Organic Substances

Data collected by the Cassini spacecraft shows the presence of heavy negative ions in the upper regions of the second largest moon in the solar system, Saturn's Titan. Launched in 1997, the Cassini spacecraft reached Saturn in 2004; it had several missions, amongst which the study of the surface of Titan, and of...

29 November 2007
05:49 GMT

Space Race: Our Solar System Flies like a Bullet

It seems that nothing is standing still in this Universe. Not even our solar system. The phrase "faster than a speeding bullet" appears to be characterizing very well our solar system.New data sent in by NASA's two Voyager spacecraft gave astronomers a whole new perspective. The two probes are now the most dist...

11 May 2007
03:04 GMT

Could We Be Unwillingly Seeding Life in Space?

The four "STAR" rocket stages are the boosters that made it possible for probes like Voyager 1, Voyager 2 and Pioneer 10 to defeat the Earth's gravity and lift into space. Now, the two Voyager spacecraft continue to operate, carrying with them a golden record that contains pictures and sounds of Earth, along w...

9 May 2007
04:24 GMT

Survivor Series, Not on TV, But on USB

One of the most famous series of products from Corsair is their Voyager series of flash-based portable memory. The commercial was probably the best reason to buy those memories, or at least it would have brought a smile to your face; I mean, it's not every day that you advertise a flash memory which can withstan...

25 April 2007
07:40 GMT

ESA Prepares for a Human Mission to Mars

That's why, at the beginning of 2008, a crew of six will be sent on a 500 day simulated mission to Mars. In reality, the crew will remain in a special isolation facility in Russia. To investigate the psychological and medical aspects of a long-duration mission, such as to Mars, ESA (European Space Agency) is lo...

2 April 2007
08:47 GMT


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