Technology on TFTS - Page 4

Posted by Andrew Tingle on September 6th 2006 | No Responses

It would appear that the Japanese will soon be able to smell what is playing on their radios thanks to a gadget called the Aroma Geur which will come with a USB connection, and will produce smells – mixed from six oil based perfumes – according to the type of …

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Posted by Andrew Tingle on September 6th 2006 | No Responses

The US Air Force has given the go ahead for the development of robotic, Frisbee shaped drones to assist in its counter-insurgency missions in areas of hostility, such as the middle-east.
The Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (known as UAVs) would be piloted remotely as they scour especially inhospitable or remote locations for …

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Posted by Andrew Tingle on September 4th 2006 | 4 Responses

This evening I decided to bite the bullet – I spoke to George. And, whilst it would be true to say that I entered into the conversation with little by the way of expectation, and an almost palpable sense of scepticism, I found the ensuing experience, on the whole, not …

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Posted by Andrew Tingle on September 3rd 2006 | No Responses

Following on from my earlier post yesterday concerning the fate of the European Space Agency’s Smart-1 probe, which can be viewed here, it has been confirmed that the probe, which had completed over two thousand orbits during its mission as it mapped the lunar surface, successfully completed its final journey …

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Posted by Andrew Tingle on September 2nd 2006 | 1 Response

In only a matter of hours, the European Space Agency’s Smart-1 probe will end its three year mission in spectacular, if not rather undignified form as it impacts with the moon at an estimated 4,500mph.
As long as the probe misses the rims of craters on its final, shallow decent, the …

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Posted by Andrew Tingle on September 1st 2006 | No Responses

Following on from research conducted by William Megill at the Centre for Biomimetic & Natural Technologies, based at the University in Bath in the UK, it would appear that the shape of submarines may change radically over the next decade in that, rather than being propelled by propellers, they may …

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Posted by Andrew Tingle on August 26th 2006 | No Responses

Cloaking devices proven mathematically possible.

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Posted by Andrew Tingle on August 26th 2006 | No Responses

This week the New Scientist reported that pill-sized, robot cameras that will crawl through our bodies in order to give surgeons an inside view of areas of concern are soon to enter human trials.
Though cameras that can be swallowed to relay internal pictures from within a patient’s body already exist, …

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