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Six Year Old Drives to School Thanks to GTA
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about a mile and a half away from his destination. Police said that during his drive, the child must have navigated “at least two 90-degree turns, passed several cars and ran off the rural two-lane road several times."When the boy was questioned by the...
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TomTom Plus Traffic Information: How Well Does It Work?
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than freeways and where, without the benefit of a GPS, everyone and his sister seeks to save a few seconds by constantly rerouting from freeway lane to freeway lane and on and off the freeway. Second, it is very dangerous to try to interact with the Go 700...
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Nissan Shows Off Collision-Avoidance Robots
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speeds, and apparently can shift lanes to avoid obstacles. Computerworld describes a recent demonstration at CEATEC, showing how the robots could shift from three lanes, to two lanes, and then down to one."In EPORO, we recreated the behavior of a school of...
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Dubai Building The Ultimate Sustainable City
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in the world. But we have a unique climate; it makes sense to design with it in mind." The roads of Xeritown will be limited to no more than two lanes. This will reduce the number of vehicles that travel on them. Public transportation will be used extensively....
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Surprise, Surprise: U.S. Broadband Is Slow. Really Slow.
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bandwidth. Japanese users leaves U.S. users behind with an eye-popping 63.60 Mb/s download link. This means that Japanese can download an entire movie in just two minutes, as opposed to two hours or more here in the U.S. Just in case you are wondering: No,...
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From The Labs: Summer Innovations
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achieves the same thing, but for laser beams instead of electric currents. The Swiss researchers made a device using two laser beams, orange and green, and used one to control the other. They say that such light-based computing is better than our current system...
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Farmer Tech: Springtime Is Here
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EasyBloom Plant Sensor might just turn you into an aspiring backyard farmer. The system (which costs about $60) comes in two pieces: a USB-enabled processor and a sensor that you stick into the soil that the processor can read. The in-ground sensor can give...
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Radiosophy's HD Radio
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for a few seconds, The vendor says this is an artifact of how the stations are broadcasting their programming, since the two signals aren’t always simulcast. Summary HD radio isn’t for people that live in rural areas that are far from the broadcasting towers...
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Power Supply
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overvoltage situations, and even power failures. They generally include line-conditioning circuitry, as well as a large internal battery and a regulator. UPSs come in two designs: a standby style that includes a very fast switch that can jump into the fray...
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Goodyear GY135 Cont’d
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Like most of the units we tested, the GY135 was able to calculate route information almost instantly, and the NAVTEQ-based navigation was dead-on in even the most remote rural areas. The Goodyear unit was accurate in estimating our arrival time (within 2...
