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Outrageous Mechanical Marvels: 9 Mammoth Gadgets

In this modern world When it comes to phones, notebooks and portable game consoles, smaller is nearly always better. But sometimes a gadget just needs to be really, really huge. True to their size, gigantic contraptions accomplish tasks enormously useful to our everyday lives

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How To Test The Speed Of Your Internet

Internet Service Providers will advertise that they are giving you the maximum speed for your internet connection. If you ask for a brief explanation; they will tell you about the upload and download speeds separately and altogether combined speed of your internet. However, there is a way to check your internet speed.

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How To Protect Your IP Address

Computers especially connected with the internet, the users came to know about a popular word ‘IP’. Outside the computer world IP refers to Intellectual Property; but in our world IP refers to Internet Protocol.

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NAO Humanoid Climbs Spiral Staircase

Researchers from University of Freiburg’s Humanoids Robots Laboratory Have demonstrated a NAO humanoid capable of climbing spiral staircases, which are more challenging to scale than their non-curving counterparts. A laser range scanner on the top of the robot’s head provides a global estimation of the bot’s position, the humanoid uses a 3D model of staircase to match up with the images it captures on each step. This system lets it get a grip on its geography to successfully detect stair edges and make it to the top with nary a trip. The humanoid robot can accurately locate itself towards the stairs and climb them reliably. Don’t forget to look at the video.

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Driverless Cars

Now a days the road accidents are increasing. The losses suffered are more. We are losing mighty humans, leaders, etc., the main reason for accidents are reckless driving by drivers. In order to avoid these accidents we have designed a model car, which will run according to predefined informations.

This project can be operated by any user known language. The parallel ports of pc are used to control the car. In future this can be extended to stop car by the police using the registration provided. Various direction turnings can be achieved. This uses frequency division multiplexing technique, to transmit the signal. This is one of the wireless communications. This is one of the gateway to “BLUE TOOTH”. The relays are used to control various directions. By connecting an obstacle detector the accidents can be avoided.

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Apple Discontinues iWork.com, Asks Users To Move To iCloud Before July 31

Apple sent an email notice out this week to users registered for its iWork.com beta, stating that they are discontinuing the service as of July 31 and Apple will no longer let users publish or share documents through the service. The discontinuation comes as Apple places its focus on iCloud, which offers users ways to keep documents in sync among their various iOS devices.

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Envia's GM-Backed Battery Delivers Huge Energy Density, Lower Costs

For those who worried about the battery life of your expensive EV, Envia has revealed a new cell that boasts a record breaking energy density of 400Wh/kg (most currently offer between 100 and 150). It's estimated that when commercialized, this could bring the cost of a 300-mile range EV down to as little as $20,000. The performance gains come from a special manganese-rich cathode and silicon-carbon nano-composite anode combination. The battery maker is also partly owned by GM, which unsurprisingly means we're likely to see these very cells in its EVs in the future. For more info read the press release.

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Social Networking - Taming The "Essential" Beast!

We all spend several hours on it, but do we really know how to make the most of it?

Love it or hate it, there really isn't a way to ignore it. Social Networking (read Facebook, Twitter and then some) has made a space for itself in our lives. Here are some tips to help you slim down, widen out and secure your entire social experience.

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New Potentially Life Bearing Super Earth GJ 667Cc Discovered

An international team of scientists led by Carnegie's Guillem Anglada-Escudé and Paul Butler has discovered a potentially habitable super-Earth orbiting a relatively nearby star. Described as the "best candidate" for supporting liquid water, and therefore life. The planet (GJ 667Cc) is believed to be about 4.5 times the size of Earth.

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Check The Strength Of Your Password

A good password can mean the difference between identity safety and identify theft. I you are not certain about the strength of your passwords, get the Microsoft Password Checker. This is a free tool. Just type in your password and get an instant strength rating: Weak, Medium, Strong or Best. Microsoft is not secretly collecting passwords for its own evil purposes. The page doesn’t record what you type; it generates a response based on the input.

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Megaupload Users’ Data Safe For Two More Weeks

The Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF is looking to help the Megaupload users’ data files. Since the US FBI shut down the web site earlier the month visitors to it pages have been disappointed and unable to access legitimate data. The innocent users were ignored when the website was shutdown.

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BOXX Electric Bike

The YikieBike differs here and joins it is BOXX Corporation’s diminutive BOXX. Coming in at just under meter (36-inches) long, the 120 pound aluminium bike has a top speed of 35 miles per hour and can even haul up to 300 pounds of heft. The compact footprint, the company hasn’t skimped on tech; it boasts traction control, anti-lock brakes, and even LED lights. Available in one of ten colors, $3,995 nets you a base 40-mile range model, can optionally double to 80 by ticking the $599 CORE2box. For those who willing to spruce further, there is a $149 heated seat and $349 one-hour charger offer.

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Stay Safe Online

The internet is always very easy to end up with viruses, trojan horses, and other nasty programs on your computer can slow down your abilities and steal information. You can prevent these things simply. Do not converse with people over e-mail or social networking sites that you do not know them personally. Never give these people any sort of personal information. Avoid falling for e-mails seem too good to be true; promises large sums of money in return for sending a package overseas like that. These are potential scams that you can identify. In e-mails don’t open the attachments from the unknown persons, if you are unsure why you received it. Even known mail from your friend’s, spreading viruses through attachments, because they use their computer as a bot, sending virus to other people on their e-mail contact list without your friend’s knowledge.

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Rollin’ Justin Learns To Throw

Rollin’ Justin learned to catch balls by tracking moving objects, calculates their flight paths and then snapping shut his cold metal claws at the moment of impact. Now he is besting himself, got good improvement by the way of his fleshy masters at the German Aerospace Agency. Among the upgrades are improvements to the old Justin’s dynamic performance – he is now 1.5 times faster in his arms, got good ratios, help to make his game of robo catch two-sided, with the ability to actual throw. He’s also adapted the more flattering moniker Agile Justin. Don’t forget to see him in action at the video.

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