Dutch University Study Suggests Wi-Fi May Be Unhealthy for Trees
By Akihabara News Team - [22/11/2010 - 12:39] - 
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There’s no end to the conspiracy theories regarding the detrimental health effects of wi-fi signals and other radio waves that permeate our lives today, but a study commissioned five years ago by the Dutch city of Alphen aan den [...]
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Hayabusa DID Bring Back Samples, Says JAXA
By Akihabara News Team - [18/11/2010 - 11:55] - 0 - Science
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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has announced that the particle analysis it was conducting on the dust collected from the sample container returned to Earth by the Hayabusa space capsule last June has yielded encouraging [...]
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Panasonic Announces $30 Million Investment in Tesla Motors
By Akihabara News Team - [4/11/2010 - 11:10] - 0 - Science
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Panasonic Corporation and Tesla Motors announced today that the former has made a 30 million USD investment in Tesla Motors, a Silicon Valley designer and manufacturer of electric vehicles. Tesla will switch to exclusively using Panaso[...]
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Hayabusa Sample Container Particle Count Reaches 800
By Akihabara News Team - [1/11/2010 - 02:00] - 2 - Science
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JAXA, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, has announced that they have collected over eight hundred particles from the sample container brought back by the Hayabusa space capsule, which returned to Earth last June after a seven-[...]
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Chinese Supercomputer One-Ups US Processing Speed Record
By Akihabara News Team - [1/11/2010 - 01:30] - 0 - Science
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Chinese National Supercomputing Center supercomputer Tianhe 1A broke the world supercomputer processing speed record for the first time, it was announced last week. At over 2.5 petaflops (2.5 thousand trillian calculations per second),[...]
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Japanese scientists invent smells printer
By Akihabara News Team - [26/10/2010 - 04:12] - 1 - Misc Science
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This isn’t a joke: Japanese scientists from Keio University have developed a technology that lets you print smells using a modified ink-jet printer, thus turning it into an “olfactory display”. So now, not only can yo[...]
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Punches from Robot All in the Name of Research
By Akihabara News Team - [15/10/2010 - 10:50] - 0 - Robot Science
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Researchers at the University of Ljubljana are working hard to figure our just how hard is to hard when taking blows from a robot. If only this kind of research were available in the world of Blade Runner, there’d be no need to f[...]
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We have tested for you Honda’s latest driving simulator and we loved it!
By Daimaou - G.G-B - [13/10/2010 - 12:34] - 2 - Science
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Back in March 2010, Honda upgraded its Automobile Driving Simulator with many little improvement including three 42” Full HD LCD and a touch panel monitor (list of changes here below the video), and we could not resist on calling Honda[...]
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[CEATEC 2010] Nissan Solar tree for a better EV World
By Daimaou - G.G-B - [11/10/2010 - 10:42] - 1 - Science
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Since the past several years, Nissan is the only Japanese car manufacturer to attend and display its latest technology at CEATEC. While this year was not really the best ever for CEATEC or for its exhibitors, NISSAN however introduce a[...]
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Hayabusa May Have Retrieved Extraterrestrial Samples
By Akihabara News Team - [6/10/2010 - 05:44] - 2 - Science
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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced yesterday that they may have found particles of extra-terrestrial origin in the sample container brought back by the Hayabusa space capsule, which touched down in southern Austral[...]
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Fujitsu Start Shipping Next-Gen Supercomputer
By Akihabara News Team - [29/9/2010 - 07:14] - 3 - Science
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From tech world power Japan comes news of a new super computer, the Kei. The first of the eight hundred individual modules that will be linked together to create this “next generation” supercomputer were shipped today from [...]
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UNDP and Sanyo’s Humanitarian Commercialism
By Akihabara News Team - [27/9/2010 - 06:13] - 0 - Science
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On TV a few days ago was mention of a United Nations Development Programme project in conjunction with Sanyo Electric to develop new products for third-world societies. At the fourth Tokyo International Conference on African Developmen[...]
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BioJapan 2010 World Business Forum
By Akihabara News Team - [27/9/2010 - 12:11] - 0 - Science
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The BioJapan 2010 World Business Forum will start the day after tomorrow, September 29, for a three-day run at the Pacifico Yokohama Convention Hall in Minatomirai, Yokohama. Over four hundred companies from all over the world, from ve[...]
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Hayabusa Space Capsule: News on Reentry
By Akihabara News Team - [22/9/2010 - 02:27] - 0 - Science
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Greeting space buffs in Japan this morning as we woke up was an interesting piece on JAXA’s MUSES-C space probe, affectionately called the Hayabusa (Japanese for peregrine falcon). Hayabusa was launched on May 9, 2003, on a missi[...]
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Fujitsu develops high-efficiency wireless charging systems
By Akihabara News Team - [13/9/2010 - 03:37] - 3 - Press Conference Science Wireless
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This morning, Fujitsu laboratories announced the development of wireless charging technology. Meant to have compact power transmitters and receivers, it also offers the ability for companies to design charging systems for their product[...]
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NEC new BIO-Plastic will change the way we build mobile devices.
By Daimaou - G.G-B - [30/8/2010 - 10:08] - 0 - Science
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Last Wednesday, NEC of Japan announced that they successfully developed a new Bio-Plastic where 70% or more is actually made from non eatable raw material like cashew nuts shell. The idea behind this new Bio-Plastic is to use and recyc[...]
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From oil to plastic back to oil… There is now a machine for that!
By Daimaou - G.G-B - [23/8/2010 - 12:21] - 14 - Science
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This is a bit old and actually if you are visiting TEPIA expo in Japan you will be available to see the machine the flesh, however, Digg, un-dug this today, and I thought that well it really needs a second chance so here it is. Akinori[...]
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Hitachi Life Microscope Concept
By Daimaou - G.G-B - [22/7/2010 - 02:03] - 3 - Science
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Today for the 100th birthday of Hitachi creation, the company held some kind of little exhibition in Tokyo. Among many interesting product, we stumble upon the “Life Microscope” project, the next generation of pedometer. Well calling H[...]
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Exemode goes “Micro” with a new 35x digital Microscope, the DMS-130.
By Daimaou - G.G-B - [20/7/2010 - 04:26] - 0 - Science
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Notoriously famous for its top-notch excellence in quality (LOL), Exemode is proud to announce today its latest product, the DMS-130, a digital microscope offering a 3.5x optical zoom and a 35x digital one. Thanks to its 1/3 1.3Mpix CM[...]
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[Video] TEPIA – Tokyo’s finest Robot & Science museum.
By Daimaou - G.G-B - [19/7/2010 - 01:22] - 8 - Robot Science
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Recently re-open to the public, TEPIA is Tokyo finest museum / memorial on all advance technology and industrial robots. And Since April, TEPIA is holding a very interesting exhibit, named : “Advanced Technology Exhibition Hall” where [...]
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Rat’s breath and heartbeat generate electricity via a single Nanowire
By Akihabara News Team - [7/6/2010 - 06:23] - 1 - Science
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The researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology (GIT) succeeded to produce electricity by attaching a single zinc oxide nanowire on a rat’s diaphram and then heart. Placed in capsule to shield from the body fluids, the nanowir[...]
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[Hands-On] Professor Furukawa “Compact Mobility” personal vehicle concept.
By Daimaou - G.G-B - [27/5/2010 - 01:34] - 0 - Hands On Robot Science
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Back in April, the Shibaura Institute of Technology and the Professor Furukawa released to the world a working prototype to some kind of “Robot Skateboard” known as Compact Mobility. After contacting the Professor Furukawa, the Institu[...]
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