Science & Technology

spectrummag

Automated Manipulation of Spherical Objects in Three Dimensions Using a Gimbaled Air Jet. Developed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Video presented at IROS 2009. For more robot news, visit http://spectrum.ieee.org

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unmannedspaceflight

This is a set of rendered views using 3DS Max to produce a coarse simulation of what may have occured to produce the beautiful formation in the sky over Norway earlier today. Not an 'official' answer Comments closed to avoid people posting missinformation and conspiracist junk- please see http://www.bautforum.com/space-astronomy-questions-answers/97857-strange-things-happening-sky.html to discuss the video. Currently - it is believe this was caused by a Chinese Long March 2D vehicle launched earlier on the same day, from China, on a polar orbit.

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Presseliteapps

Twitter 360 is a new application specifically developed for the iPhone 3GS that enables you to visualize your Twitter friends located in your nearby environment, thanks to a unique Augmented Reality functionality using the iPhone camera. Twitter 360 is one of the first iPhone applications to use the new Twitters Geotagging feature to geotag your tweets. http://www.twitter-360.com iTunes Link: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=330158239&mt=8