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Archive for May, 2008
Review: Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX520
Panasonic one ups Sony in the touchscreen game with its latest flagship compact in the FX-series.
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Trend: Japanese Green Home Gadgets
Considering that the fish grill is a kitchen appliance common to pretty much all Japanese homes, and used on a regular basis, these are…
Seiko’s Spring Drive is heading for a ‘spacewalk’ (Europa Star)
The technology of the Spring Drive has opened new horizons by combining in a spectacular and ingenious way, the best of mechanical timekeeping (a rotor produces the energy but, in this case, the transformed energy is mechanical, electrical, and electromagnetic) with a radically new type of regulator organ, the tri synchro regulator.
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Hands-on with the SmartQ T5-II
Don’t dismiss every MP3 player out of China as a copycat. This one from SmartQ is one of those with its own individuality.
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Duke inches toward autonomous robo-surgeons
Filed under: Robots
We’re a little ambivalent about robots performing surgery autonomously and unattended, but there are clearly cases where it’d be beneficial, and it seems like an inevitable future. Duke researchers working on robo-doc lab feasibility studies announced this week a proof of concept using 3D ultrasound mapping to enable machines to “see” what they’re doing. The first test procedures have focused on use of those ultrasound transducers in catheter-based procedures using fluoroscopy, so it sounds like we’ll still have a few years before we say ahhh for a machine.
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South Korea Faces Question of Corporate Control (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance)
Following the resignation of the chairman of Samsung amid criminal indictments, South Korea seems uncertain about how much pressure to put on family-owned corporate groups.
Chamber Players inspired by Asian muses in two concerts - Seattle Post Intelligencer
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Chamber Players inspired by Asian muses in two concerts
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Friday's concert is a kind of short survey of Chinese and Japanese music. "We asked her," Sabee said, "to pick works that are stylistically contrasting and … |
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Review: Sony Ericsson W380i
It’s not an amazing music device but a very pleasant little handset.
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