Their official designation sounds cool too. Dig this: Cetacean Soldiers. It's a real awful B-movie in the making. (Quick, someone get in touch with James Cameron.) But before visions of Command and Conquer: Red Alert flood the reader's mind, the dolphins currently being trained by the U.S. Navy are … [Read more...] about How The U.S. Navy Is Training Its Dolphin Commandos
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Engineers And Scientists Concoct Invisibility Cloaks To Curb Wave Erosion
Woah, invisibility cloaks. Sounds really high tech and overly technical. It isn't. There's no weird science here, folks, just clever engineering to keep one of nature's most effective tools at bay; at least for a while. Call them wave absorbers and they could be used in large numbers very soon. … [Read more...] about Engineers And Scientists Concoct Invisibility Cloaks To Curb Wave Erosion
Finnish Researchers Find Way To Halve Industrial Fuel Consumption
It requires electric power transmission systems be installed on industrial machinery. Call it a straightforward solution to industrial emissions that has tons of potential. The guys from Aalto University are responsible for this minor breakthrough which could find wide acceptance in factories … [Read more...] about Finnish Researchers Find Way To Halve Industrial Fuel Consumption
DIY Space Rocket Blasts Off To Success
They did it! They really did it! A team of Danish aerospace enthusiasts have successfully tested a suborbital rocket in the Baltic Sea. Though it failed to reach its target altitude of 15 kilometers, it did blast off, attain considerable height, and crashed into the ocean. There was supposed to be … [Read more...] about DIY Space Rocket Blasts Off To Success
Gas From Uranus Makes For Great Starship Fuel
Actually the title should've been "gas from your anus" but that would be too inappropriate. (Though funny, real funny.) Long story abbreviated: enormous planet-wide helium-3 deposits in Uranus can be harvested for interstellar travel. Helium-3 is an ideal fuel because it's abundant and reacts well … [Read more...] about Gas From Uranus Makes For Great Starship Fuel
Blackberry Playbook Coming To Sprint In June
RIM's surprisingly robust tablet, which still boasts the best Flash implementation on a mobile device from what we hear, is about to make the trek over to Sprint, where it will be going for about $500. And by about, we mean exactly that amount. Not only that, but apparently there's a 4G Playbook … [Read more...] about Blackberry Playbook Coming To Sprint In June
Panasonic’s WiGig Heading To Mobiles
We'll confess we hadn't heard of Qualcomm's WiGig protocol until now. Colour us embarrassed, but colour us honest at the same time. However, a consumer electronics communications protocol operating in the 60GHz band that promises speeds twenty times the speed of regular old WiFi connections? Add … [Read more...] about Panasonic’s WiGig Heading To Mobiles
Symbian Getting DLNA Update
Despite consigning it to an early grave, Nokia is still standing strong behind Symbian for the moment. In fact, it's already announced it will be supporting the OS all the way through 2014. But apparently apart from support they're even adding the odd new feature, like DLNA support. Introducing … [Read more...] about Symbian Getting DLNA Update
Project Cafe Details Leaked By Nikkei
Some of the more fanciful details of Nintendo's Project Cafe, or Wii 2 as most people inevitably still think of it, have apparently been confirmed by Japanese website Nikkei. The six-inch touchscreen controller, which also doubles as a portable console, puts in an appearance, and this time we even … [Read more...] about Project Cafe Details Leaked By Nikkei
PlayStation Store “Welcome Back” Content Now Up
The par-tay's over on the PlayStation Store, as the swag it promised customers for powering through the month-long PSN outage is now being distributed. Just as a quick reminder, PSP owners are getting to choose two games from a list of four, while the PS3 crowd can choose any one game from a list of … [Read more...] about PlayStation Store “Welcome Back” Content Now Up
German Researchers Testing Invisible iPhone
A certain computer science professor named Baudisch and his team are currently hard at work creating an invisible smartphone system. Foreseeing upcoming trends in touch sensitive devices, Baudisch believes there will come a time when small gestures on the palm of one's hand replaces our already … [Read more...] about German Researchers Testing Invisible iPhone
Adobe CEO Buries Hatchet With Apple
The Adobe-Apple feud seemed to be winding down now for a while now and Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen was on hand to discuss why at the D9 conference. For those of you hoping for a mature low-key resolution, well, that's exactly what happened. For those of you hoping for a resolution involving Flash on … [Read more...] about Adobe CEO Buries Hatchet With Apple
