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Dyne09 writes
"The design blog has posted an entry on Samsung's new laptop with a transparent OLED screen. The photos show a dark tinted and dimly lit screen that is fully see-through. While the utility of a see through laptop probably isn't that high for the average user, several medical and industrial industries could greatly augment design work or frame 3-D models over real life in real-time. Imagine a world where this concept is expanded to include things like car windshields or reading glasses?"Link to Original Source
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Dyne09 writes
"National Geographic has published a story outlining research that Earth's magnetic pole is rapidly moving in an easterly direction at a speedy 40 miles per year. Yet unknown forces in the core of the Earth are creating a "magnetic plume," affecting the magnetic pole. The roaming pole's destination: Russia! Sara Palin was right! Oddly enough, my own compass tells me it just keeps moving north..."Link to Original Source
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Dyne09 writes
"The BBC has just run an article about a group of Swiss and Italian scientists who have created a robotic hand with forty sensors that "connect directly to the brain." Though fuzzy on the details, the hand provides sensor feedback to a willing test subject who lost his arm to disease early in life. How long until we have access to Star Wars-esque robotic limbs?"Link to Original Source
