Going to a local supermarket allows you to study different personal characters. There are people (like me) trying to get the stuff they want to buy and then go straight to the cashier. There are hard-core shoppers, who compare products…
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Monthly Archives: September 2010
Supermarket characters
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Airplane, boat, battleship, …
During the cold war the Russians have developed their battle missile carriers (click here for amazing pictures from that technology) and their Ekranoplan (see video below) with a total weight of 540t was even able to shoot nuclear missiles. Other…
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Microwaves and other threats
Chinas recent moon mission provided us with a more detailed microwave image of the moon. Other than this scientific news, Americans are rather worrying about being grilled by there own hotels
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SkyRider airline seats – the future of “riding” on a plane?
Airlines want to save money and costumers are looking for cheap tickets. The only way to satisfy both is to cram as many passengers in a plane as possible. Until now passengers in economy class were forced to have a…
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Makizushi helper
Those of you who tried to make Makizushi by yourself, know what I am talking about. It’s a really hard job! Not only that the rice has to be in perfect condition, but the wrapping is the really nasty part…
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The photo elastic touch
A university (University of Electro-Communications) nearby our institute has developed a soft touch panel which interacts with the user.
Household robot
Maybe nothing for the US market … they have already enough people with lack of physical activity
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Office cliché
I don’t know why a German company advertises their product with Japanese actors? Another company uses the exactly same situation to advertise their copy paper, this time with western actors
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USRP2 and soldering the DBSRX
Yesterday our first USRP2 was delivered and I managed to do all the software stuff around it. Today we fixed the problem with one of the resistors to make the DBSRX work with the main board. One has to remove…
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