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Disney Tech Makes Touchscreens Touchy-Feely
2013-10-10 21:05:57| TechNewsWorld
Disney Research has developed an algorithm that will render 3D textures and tactile features on a touchscreen, it announced earlier this week, enabling users to "feel" the on-screen images they touch and see. The technology works on still images as well as streaming videos, and it achieves its effect by altering the friction the user's fingers encounter as they glide across the screen's surface.
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Diseases can be tracked better and faster with new tech
2013-10-10 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: Surveillance is key to eliminating and preventing infectious diseases. Early detection offers the chance of rapid response, which can stop a handful of cases or a few clusters of illness from becoming something far worse. Take polio. Surveillance underpins the current global eradication effort: without it, we wouldn't know where or how the virus circulates, as 90 per cent of cases have no symptoms, which makes it difficult to identify them. As a result of early detection, however, 99 per cent...
Companies Collaborate to Deliver M2M Tech for Smart Grid in Latin America
2013-10-10 05:01:00| Transmission & Distribution World
Gemalto is working with Oracle and V2COM in delivering a flexible smart energy solution. read more
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Russian 'Pirates' Offer Hobbled NASA a Helping Tech Hand
2013-10-08 22:58:36| TechNewsWorld
Russia's Pirate Party wrote a letter to NASA offering to host the agency's website, which is currently out of commission because of the government shutdown. The Pirate Party -- a minority political movement in many European countries predicated on privacy and transparency -- informed NASA that it could use the party's dedicated servers until the U.S. government got off the ground.
'Spirit of Goodyear' to retire, hi tech blimp on track
2013-10-08 17:59:39| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
The Spirit of Goodyear blimp will give up its spot in the Wingfoot Lake Hangar near Akron, Ohio, for the new Goodyear New Technology blimp.
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