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"Quantum Water" Discovered in Carbon Nanotubes

There *are* no homeopathic implications. These quantum effects happen because the protons are constrained in a quantum cage of carbon atoms.... (read full comment)  

Posted on February 1, 2011 at 12:39 PM EST

How to Build a Warp Drive Using Metamaterials

They change their position over time. You know, velocity, dx/dt? Now, of course, you have to correct for dilation in time and in distance under... (read full comment)  

Posted on September 30, 2010 at 7:01 AM EDT

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How to Make (Robot) Friends and Influence People

I think saying "we all love robots" is a huge over-generalization. Some people consider them interesting; others might feel revulsion. More... (read full comment)  

Posted on May 7, 2009 at 5:32 PM EDT

Why Electric Vehicles Will Be a Long Time Coming

Cars are not Electronics Comparing the auto industry to the electronics industry is completely wrong. Mechanical technology follows completely... (read full comment)  

Posted on March 11, 2009 at 2:19 AM EDT

Britain hopes to ban pedophiles from Facebook, MySpace

Unenforcable wow... in an age of public WiFi, they seriously think this can work? Convicted Pedophiles are strongly motivated to find victims;... (read full comment)  

Posted on April 7, 2008 at 11:11 AM EDT

LEDs emerge to challenge fluorescents as bulbs may be pushed from lighting throne

Using heat directly from a chemical source is at least twice as efficient as heat from an electrical source. For those with electrical heating... (read full comment)  

Posted on May 14, 2007 at 9:05 AM EDT

Battery Breakthrough?

The patent that I am sure they are using is 7144655, which is a hybrid DLC/LiIon Cell. That is, the charge is held partially in a chemical cell,... (read full comment)  

Posted on January 22, 2007 at 4:44 PM EST

The Open-Source Solution

Many Hands Make Light Work In open source, a bug can be fixed by whoever has the inclination and skill; closed source, it can only be fixed by... (read full comment)  

Posted on January 18, 2007 at 3:00 AM EST

Giving Up on SBook

Actually, I'm sure the village made the right decision with the E911 software. Renumbering all the houses made it easier for people, too. But I... (read full comment)  

Posted on January 17, 2007 at 2:00 AM EST

How to Hack an Election in One Minute

Not even a second tape Cash registers have two printers - one with the customer receipt, a second with the accounting receipt. The accounting... (read full comment)  

Posted on September 18, 2006 at 4:42 AM EDT

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