Toshiba's building a "Micro Nuclear" reactor for your garage?
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Alright, details are slim, and we really have no idea if Toshiba has any plans whatsoever to sell these nuclear reactors to consumers -- in fact, we hope it doesn't -- but it does seem like the company is well on its way to commercializing the design. Toshiba's Micro Nuclear reactors are designed to power a single apartment building or city block, and measure a mere 20-feet by 6-feet. The 200 kilowatt reactor is fully automatic and fail-safe, and is completely self-sustaining. It uses special liquid lithium-6 reservoirs instead of traditional control rods, and can last up to 40 years,...
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 01:19:58 AM
Sharp shows the future of touch screens for micro devices (Touchscreens that scan)
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October 3, 2007 Sharp yesterday began publicly demonstrating a new technology that could have far reaching effects on the way we interact with the mounting tide of mobile information available to us through diminutive devices such as smart phones, PDAs, cameras and UMPCs – the marriage of sensing function with an LCD screen is not new, but Sharp’s technology puts an optical sensor into each pixel enabling the screen to become a multiple touch-point screen and a scanner. The technology is a simple one to understand, but one that has massive implications as it is a fundamental building block in...
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 01:19:58 AM
CAT helps secure micro loans for Iraqis
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BAGHDAD, (Army News Service, Feb. 13, 2006) – Over the past four months, the Soldiers of Company D, 490th Civil Affairs Team met with more than 20 key Iraqi leaders in an effort to promote economic and social growth within their area of operations. One of the ways the CAT promotes financial growth is through a process of micro loans. Micro loans are similar to loans in the United States with one exception, micro loans focus on developing countries but in Iraq they’re focused on families. An average micro loan consists of less than $500 invested toward a necessity that...
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 01:19:58 AM
Mini-plane Newest Addition to Unmanned Family
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Sgt. Richard Skinner, Tactical Micro Unmanned Aerial Vehicle project trainer, Fort Belvoir, Va., launches the TACMAV by hand. The newest UAV is the smallest in the UAV family with a body length and wing span of 21 inches. U.S. Marine Corps photo Mini-plane Newest Addition to Unmanned Family The Tactical Micro Unmanned Aerial Vehicle can be stored in a 22-inch long, five-inch diameter tube and placed on a soldier’s backpack. By Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Bernadette L. Ainsworth / Multinational Corps Public Affairs Office CAMP VICTORY, Iraq, Oct. 17, 2005 – The Army recently began using an unmanned aerial...
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 01:19:58 AM
Mexican Officials Microchip People With Security Clearance
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Mexican Officials Microchip People With Security Clearance POSTED: 9:11 am EDT July 15, 2004 MEXICO CITY -- Security has reached the subcutaneous level for Mexico's attorney general and at least 160 people in his office -- they have been implanted with microchips that get them access to secure areas of their headquarters. It's a pioneering application of a technology that is widely used in animals but not in humans. Mexico's top federal prosecutors and investigators began receiving chip implants in their arms in November in order to get access to restricted areas inside the attorney general's headquarters, said Antonio Aceves,...
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 01:19:58 AM
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