Archive for September 11th, 2009

If you listen to inventor Dean Kamen, the biggest health problem facing the world today is not AIDS, obesity or malnutrition. It’s a shortage of water. So the man who designed the Segway has invented a device called the Slingshot, a portable, low-energy machine designed to purify water in remote villages.
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  • Forget about 20/20. “Perfect” vision could be redefined by gadgets that give you the eyes of a cyborg.
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  • A new generation of deep-sea submarines light enough to launch from a yacht could open up the ocean’s depths to amateur explorers.
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  • Forget Hollywood special effects or Impressionist paintings — some of the most stunning images are created by the mysterious and often violent forces in the universe. Witness the handful of new snapshots taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, which is back in business after being equipped with a new imaging camera.
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  • The first landing opportunity for space shuttle Discovery was scrubbed Thursday because of bad weather near Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA said.
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  • Wednesday’s Apple announcements surprised observers who expected to see a video camera added to the upgraded iPod Touch. So why didn’t Apple take that step? The answer may lie with the newly invigorated iPod Nano, which is now poised to challenge Flip’s cheap, tiny camcorders.
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