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A New Game Controller That Stretch Skin of Thumb Tips

GeekMan — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 15:08:16 +0000

The touch feedback in game controllers, in the past, makes our hands vibrate using an off-balance motor to simulate the feel flying a helicopter, or driving a car in a racing game. A new game controller, designed by University of Utah’s engineers gives gamming experience more than merely vibration; “it delivers directional cues to the [...]

Future Airplanes Could Reuse Energy Produced by Their Landing Gear

GeekMan — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 19:05:29 +0000

The energy produced by airplane’s braking system during landing—currently wasted—could, in the future, be captured and converted into electricity by motor-generators built into the landing gear, a new research finds. The study suggests that future airplanes could reuse energy produced by their landing gear. The feasibility of this, a press release by the EPSRC UK [...]

Has Rapid Rise in Overseas Manufacturing Industries Really Hurt US?

GeekMan — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:31:08 +0000

CIA’s world fact book shows that China, in 2010, became the world’s largest exporter. As it has been quiet frequently reported in the media that; American imports from China grows rapidly—a new report even suggests that it reach 10x between 1991 and 2007, and not less than a million U.S. workers lost jobs due to [...]

LRO Camera Captures Physical Contraction on Lunar Surface

GeekMan — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:02:39 +0000

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) camera captures physical contraction on Lunar surface. This leads lunar researchers into hypothetical conclusion that Moon is still active until today. NASA’s press release reads: “A team of researchers analyzing high-resolution images obtained by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) show small, narrow trenches typically much longer than they are wide. [...]

Free Android App Warns Users About Suspicious Permission Combinations

GeekMan — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:06:51 +0000

Malicious applications that can instantiate their own—through permission combinations, have been long known as an extremely dangerous permission to grant for they can use the permission to compromise privacy or cause unwanted costs. A free Android App that warns users about suspicious permission combination, codenamed “App Permission Watcher,” is now available for download. “The application [...]

Software Simulation Tool That Analyzes Program Structures In Advance

GeekMan — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:57:50 +0000

Though, ‘trial-and-error’ is common in the world of software engineering. Developers can now rely on “PALLADIO”—a software simulation tool that analyzes program structures, developed by any software engineers, in advance, a press release at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany) website suggests. “Apart from own experience, developers can now rely on the PALLADIO simulation tool. The [...]

When Can I Buy Driverless Car?

GeekMan — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:20:06 +0000

With numbers of major auto maker (BMW, Volvo, Audi, General Motors and even Google) that are currently testing driverless cars, public may start thinking (or dreaming) of “when can I get driverless car?” Most of the auto makers say “2018!” They plan to make the vehicles available for mass production by 2018. Here is Google’s [...]

Terrifying Earth-sized Plasma Tornado Raged Across Sun Surface

GeekMan — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 17:44:41 +0000

Terrifying Earth-sized plasma tornado raged across sun’s surface captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory on Feb 7-8. From the YouTube (uploaded by VideoFromSpace) “For a 30 hour spell (Feb 7-8, 2012) the Solar Dynamics Observatory captured plasma caught in a magnetic dance across the Sun’s surface. The results closely resemble extreme tornadic activity on Earth.” [...]

New Study Suggests Earths Mantle Has Never Been Completely Melted

GeekMan — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:55:20 +0000

Scientific consensuses ever held that the internal heat of the early Earth would have led to vigorous mixing, and perhaps even complete melting of the Earth. A new study is now reportedly suggests that earth’s mantle has never been completely melted. University of Maryland’s news desk reads: “Unexpected new findings by a University of Maryland [...]

Are e-Readers the Next Big Advertising Platform?

GeekMan — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:51:08 +0000

The increasing trend in e-readers sales may lead us into a question: are e-readers the next big advertising platform? Apple, last quarter, reported selling of 11.1 million tablet—up 166 percent from the previous year. Bloomberg estimates e-readers and tablet market could reach $77.4 billion by 2015. By 2012, according to eMarketer, 12 percent of adults [...]