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The Sonar Image Of The Titanic’s Debris Field Is larger Than Expected [Titanic]

The first sonar images of the Titanic were mapped and the ship's debris field is far larger than scientists anticipated. Here's what the dots within the sonar image is absolutely showing. We're watching the Titanic's bow and in case you squint your eyes (or can translate sonar) you can find ...

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How to Watch This Week’s Spectacular Meteor Shower [Field Guide]

The peak of the famously visible Perseid meteor shower starts Tuesday! This year\'s show, which coincides with a new moon and perfect viewing conditions, must be especially spectacular-especially when you follow the following pointers for a brilliant viewing experience: Find a wide-open space to monitor. You\'ll need a good view of the total sky, even the ...

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How a Tiny Magnet Could Produce a Force Field Big Enough To Protect a Space Ship [Forcefields]

While many hurdles are keeping us stuck here on the planet, our solar system\'s deadly radiation is chief among them. But scientists now think that a thumb-sized magnet could produce a force field large enough to shield a complete spaceship. The big fiery ball we call our Sun is continually shooting high-energy particles out into the ...

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Marines field autonomous support vehicles based on winning robot design (video)

Since their third-place finish in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge, TORC Technology's had quite a climb -- the company founded by Virginia Tech graduates has since provided IED-scouting Humvee kits to the US Military, and a vehicle for the blind uses the drive-by-wire platform that they designed. Now, the Marines are testing a TORC kit ...

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Sony ES series home theater

Over the Independence Day weekend, Sony decided to entertain you with their new range of ES series home theater hardware, where all of them target custom installations and will only be available via specialty shops. This means it will be pretty exclus…

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Video: Dr. Michio Kaku tells Stephen Colbert that we’ll have invisibility cloaks within 10 years

As you know, Dr. Michio Kaku is the man. The theoretical physicist, perhaps best known for co-founding string field theory, was on The Colbert Report last night talking about all sorts of fun stuff, including the fact that we’ll have Harry Potter-eqsue (or, to make it game-y, Metal Gear Solid-esque) invisibility cloaks within 10 years. [...]

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Video: RoboCar helps to create more intelligent cars in the future

In case you ever wondered what practical purpose robotics as a field of science has, RoboCar [JP] might be one answer. That’s the name of a car robotics platform (and robot) currently in development at Tokyo-based robotics venture ZMP.

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Graphite Kindle DX coming July 7th for $379, now available for pre-order

Amazon’s having a field day with its Kindle lineup as of late. Hot off the heels of its Kindle price drop, bigger brother Kindle DX has gotten a new shade, a touted 50 percent improved contrast, and a $379 price tag — much lower than the $489 it aske…

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Kinect detailed in newly precise tech specs

Sure, you know Kinect, but do you know Kinect? While retailers have backed off publishing $150 pricetags for Kinect in bizarre displays of solidarity, UK shop Play.com has up some new specifics on the technology in its listing for the device. Here are…

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Review: Gunnar Optiks 3D glasses

There’s no doubt about it: 3D is here to stay. Although it’s been almost two years since I gawked at 3D TVs at IFA 2008, there’s still little penetration in the consumer space. Hollywood is going gangbusters with the technology, though: 25 major films are slated to be released in 3D in 2011, and DreamWorks and Disney have promised that all of their animated films will be released in 3D. If you’re a movie buff and want to really enjoy 3D movies in the theater, you might consider the new line of Gunnar Optiks 3D glasses. Caveat: these are passive circular polarized lenses, which work with passive 3D displays. If you’re eyeing one of the new 3D TVs from Panasonic, Samsung, or Sony, you’ll need the active lenses from the TV manufacturer or some kind of universal glasses.

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Tobii Eye-tracking Glasses

Are you performing market research and want to know what folks are looking at all day? If you’re able to convince them to wear the Tobii Glasses, you’ll be in a pretty good position to find out. These glasses offer the eye-tracking feature, thanks to a VGA camera at the front, and a hip-mounted unit with SDHC storage, allowing it to store the necessary data. There are IR emitters that are scattered about the field of vision that the researcher is looking to study, which will go some way to tracking what the user is looking at. It’s certainly not something you want to be wearing every day, but if you’re doing some research with it, it does seem like quite a handy piece of kit.

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Eye tracking Tobii Glasses enable ‘fully valid research’ from a bodaciously styled pair of shades

If you’re looking to get in touch with some styling cues you left behind in the ’80s, or perhaps just perform a study on effective product packaging, Tobii Technology would like you to get a load of these. They’re called Tobii Glasses, a pair of eye-tracking specs that look a little less obtrusive than some others we’ve seen, but despite that are also a bit less practical. These glasses pack a VGA camera, write to a hip-mounted unit with SDHC storage, and rely on IR emitters that apparently must be scattered about the field of vision that the researcher is looking to study. Those emitters enable very accurate and reliable monitoring of where the research participant is looking, making these possibly an ideal accessory for all you marketing research managers out there.

Update: We got a note from Rasmus Petersson at Tobii Technology indicating that, indeed, the glasses can be used without the IR transmitters — you just lose some automation when it comes to data aggregation at the end of the study. So, married dudes, look out if your wife buys you a new set of specs for your birthday.

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