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Time to Cross the Beams! LHC to Commence First Proton Smashing Tomorrow
Posted by admin in Science on 30. Mar, 2010 | 0 Comments
Although some of us feel like we’ve heard this story before The Large Hadron Collider’s Compact Muon Solenoid courtesy CERN The Large Hadron Collider has been coming along in fits and starts, but the European Organization for Nuclear Research plans to begin colliding the highest energy proton beams ever conjured tomorrow, heralding a new era [...]
Interactive 3D Viewing Box Lets You Browse and Control Virtual Worlds Without Glasses
Posted by admin in Electronics, Hi-tech on 30. Mar, 2010 | 0 Comments
pCubee The not-so-poor man’s alternative to 3D University of British Columbia People who hate wearing 3-D glasses may like a new approach from a company called pCubee. A handheld cube-shaped device uses small LCD panels on all sides to create the illusion of playing with 3-D objects within a virtual cube, such as tiny cows [...]
Human Bones Successfully Grown in Lab from Stem Cells
Posted by admin in Medicine on 30. Mar, 2010 | 0 Comments
Scientists could use the technique to reconstruct almost any intricate bone shape in the lab, using digital images as a model Lab-Grown Bones They won’t call me Mr. Glass anymore! Columbia University Figuring out a good bone replacement for limbs has proved a problem since the days of the wooden peg leg. Yet scientists have [...]
Photoshop’s Content-Aware Fill is Magical
Posted by admin in Computers on 27. Mar, 2010 | 0 Comments
Don’t like that tree there? Just circle it, and Photoshop does the rest. Gone. Content-Aware Fill Let’s fill’er out Adobe Getting rid of annoying lens flares or an unwanted tree in Photoshop could get much less tedious with a new “content-aware fill” tool. Adobe’s sneak preview of the feature shows how formerly painstaking retouch jobs [...]
