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The city of 4,500 residents has demanded that Google Maps remove images of North Oaks homes from the website’s Street View feature, where any Internet user can glimpse a home from the nearest road.
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According to calculations done by physicists of the University of St Andrews the normally attractive Casimir force between two surfaces can be made repulsive. The repulsive force may even be strong enough to levitate a tiny mirror. In theory the...
Levitation has been elevated from being pure science fiction to science fact, according to a study reported today by physicists. Beijing saleswoman demonstrates toy which levitates by magnetic force; Physicists have ’solved’ mystery of...
Encyclopaedia Britannica is about to launch a new initiative [...]. The main thrust of this initiative is to promote greater participation by both our expert contributors and readers. Both groups will be invited to play a larger role in expanding,...
Faviki is a new social bookmarking tool that offers semantic tagging capabilities. This means is that Faviki will suggest tags based upon structured information extracted from the Wikipedia database.
Freebase is an open database of the world’s information. It is built by the community and for the community—free for anyone to query, contribute to, build applications on top of, or integrate into their websites.
Researchers have designed a robot that uses a novel form of electrically activated adhesion to enable it to scale any kind of vertical surface. The robot can even climb surfaces that are dusty or wet, be they concrete, glass, or drywall.
The Dutch Council of State is willing to Open Source its application that can centrally convert documents between open formats and proprietary formats, said Marcel Pennock, the tool’s developer, Wednesday at a conference on Open Document Format...
Owners of Apple devices such as iPods and iPhones may soon be able to charge them up by leaving them out in the sun.Apple has filed a patent for a technology which would enable a layer of solar cells to be inserted under a touch-sensitive screen of the...
The No-Contact Jacket is a wearable defensive jacket created for protection of woman from violence. When activated electric current pulses just below the surface shell of the entire jacket.
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