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Comment Re:This is hardly anything new (Score 5, Insightful) 215

by mystic414 on Sunday September 13, 2009 @05:51PM (#29407869) Attached to: Students Take Pictures From Space On $150 Budget

Give them credit for creative problem-solving.

They get no credit for creative problem-solving when four teenagers in Spain did the same thing six months ago:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5005022/Teens-capture-images-of-space-with-56-camera-and-balloon.html

Get Ready For ... Nanosoccer! 89

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 23, 2008 @07:18AM from the can't-use-your-hands dept.

DeviceGuru writes "For the past few years, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology has been sponsoring nanosoccer — a new team sport for universities with programs in micro-electro-mechanical systems. The soccer nanobots, operated by human players via remote-controlled magnetic fields and electrical signals, slide tiny discs around on a 30mm x 30mm playing field. Two demonstration competitions have already been held, and a third one is slated to take place next summer in Austria at RoboCup 2009."

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