Monthly Archives: January 2011

Cleaning up space

Also JAXA seems to be very active on this field as their homepage proofs.

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Sometimes technical development is not really straightforward

Maybe this technology will not solve the transportation problems in the next centuries …

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Twisted wings

In the mid-70′s NASA was testing a prototype plane for which wind tunnel tests had shown that an oblique wing design will use half the fuel at supersonic speeds. Thereby the wing of this plane was oblique, turned 60-degrees across

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The “Super Hotels” in Japan

Japan has hotels in any price range, but in the large cities its usually quite hard to find something under 100 Euro per night. A new hotel chain has now entered the low-cost segment of this business. They named the

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Sweet keyboard

Don’t bite this keyboard.

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Strange habits in the alps

Austrians are known for traditional folk music from the alpine areas. Such music can be liked or not, that everybody’s own taste. Sometimes even eccentric bands show up, but on average their texts are harmless and if their songs appear

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Some extra costs for Galileo – is it worth? YES!!!

Several European Union commissions have estimated that completing a fully operational capability (FOC), 30-satellite Galileo system and the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) will cost an additional €1.9 billion above the €3.4 billion already allocated. OK, that’s quite a

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McDonald’s without burger

Mc Donalds is testing a burger-free restaurant in France where they sell salads instead of meat loafs. But why should someone go there? If I want buy electronics I go to an electronics store. If I need furniture, guess what,

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UHD Multi USRP2 via MIMO

After modifying some of the UHD code I finally got a program which reads data from two USRP2s which are synced by a MIMO cable and which stream data via a single Ethernet port. The source code for can be

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Japanese Jurrasic Park

According to this newspaper article Japanese scientists plan to clone a mammoth within the next five to six years. If they succeed it would be an amazing step of for cell biologists and related researcher. What’s next? Dinosaurs? Caveman? Michael

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