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Security Door Blocks Heavy People
The new security entrance at Sweden's National Police headquarters has a built-in scale to ensure only one person enters at a time. However:
Those weighing more than 230 pounds (105 kilograms) who try to pass through the entrance are greeted by a recorded voice telling them: "Stop! One at a time!" and are not let through, police spokeswoman Linda Widmark said.
The scale is suppose to adjust to 350 pounds, but because of a construction error it isn't (yet?) set properly.
Link to CNN.
Posted by rshah on March 03, 2005| Comments (0)
Mail Tracking System Raises Privacy Fears
Mail Tracking System Raises Privacy Fears
The Postal Service began considering the "Intelligent Mail" idea several years ago as a way to help its commercial customers, such as credit card companies and direct marketers, get more information on when and if their mail reaches intended recipients. The commission said the Intelligent Mail could bolster security, as well as let consumers track the progress of anything they send.
Posted by rshah on October 06, 2003| Comments (0)
Can Technology Foil Airline Hijackers?
Can Technology Foil Airline Hijackers?
Many of the electronic building blocks are in place for a system onboard airplanes that would thwart air pirates, according to aviation experts. In fact, systems that could prevent terrorists from crashing a plane into a building, or even crashing the plane at all, would require no fundamental breakthroughs.
Posted by rshah on April 12, 2002| Comments (0)
How to see through walls
How to see through walls
Transparent concrete is encouraging architects to rethink how they design buildings
Posted by rshah on January 28, 2002| Comments (0)
Electricity Goes to Market
Electricity Goes to Market
There’s an even more fundamental obstacle to realizing the promise of deregulation: the technology itself. Nearly everything in the current power system—from the generating plants and the transmission grid that distributes electricity throughout the country to the devices that run on that power and the meters that keep track of power usage—is designed for use in a centralized system of regulated, monopolistic utilities.
Posted by rshah on January 22, 2002| Comments (0)
Why Goldfish Might Turn Blue
Why Goldfish Might Turn Blue
Say goodbye to Birkenstock sandals and woolly jumpers -- tomorrow's eco-warrior will like nothing better than swimming naked in defense of cleaner oceans. That, at least, is the hope of researchers in Singapore, who are developing a breed of fish capable of detecting water pollutants by changing color.
Posted by rshah on December 31, 2001| Comments (0)
Communication Aids Design
Communication Aids Design
Before Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. could build the U.S. Army one of the world's most advanced helicopters, it first had to make some big advances in its collaboration techniques.
Posted by rshah on December 12, 2001| Comments (0)
Friendlier Fire
Friendlier Fire
The best options, says sci-fi novelist turned defense contractor Janet Morris, CEO of M2 Technologies, are "nonlethal weapons," the kind she and husband Chris describe as life-conserving, environmentally friendly, and fiscally responsible.
Posted by rshah on October 05, 2001| Comments (0)
Formula 2001
Formula 2001
220 mph, 17,000 rpm, 500,000 lines of code: Fast-forward computational dynamics are in the driver's seat of today's F1 cars. This isn't just a race - it's a technology war.
Posted by rshah on October 05, 2001| Comments (0)
An Audio Spotlight Creates a Personal Wall of Sound
An Audio Spotlight Creates a Personal Wall of Sound
Companies are already dreaming up commercial applications for the beam. Supermarkets and retail stores may beam product enticements at customers. Vending machines may soon talk as people pass by. Dance clubs could divide up a single room into different music zones. DaimlerChrysler is looking into installing sound beams in a truck so that passengers can listen to their own music. The military could use it to confuse enemy troops.
Posted by rshah on May 15, 2001| Comments (0)
Technology for Consumer Goods in Prisons
Technology for Consumer Goods in Prisons
One commonality is a movement toward clear products. "Clear is growing nationwide; it's a contraband issue," Mr. Thomas explained. "Clear TV's, hot pots, shavers — any product that is allowed into an inmate's personal possession — all the way down to clear trash cans."
Posted by rshah on May 14, 2001| Comments (0)
Societal Implications of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Societal Implications of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Posted by rshah on April 30, 2001| Comments (0)
MicroMachines: They're Huge
MicroMachines: They're Huge
Officially called MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical systems), these micromachines are even too small for Stuart Little but are still bigger than nanotechnology, which uses atoms or molecules as building blocks. If insects are indeed going to inherit the earth, they now have the machines to do it with.
Posted by rshah on April 05, 2001| Comments (0)
Intersexuals launch a movement to stop doctors from
Intersexuals launch a movement to stop doctors from
Doctors have standards which they use to determine the "normality" of a newborn's genitalia. For a boy, a baby must have a phallus longer than 2 centimeters, with a urethra opening at the tip that releases urine, and a scrotum that contains testes. If the penis is significantly smaller than 2 centimeters the baby may be reassigned a female, even if he has testes. A clitoris longer than 1 centimeter is considered unacceptably enlarged and is shaved down purely for purposes of looking normal.
Posted by rshah on March 29, 2001| Comments (0)
SPICE equivalent for biological circuits (aka BioSPICE)
SPICE equivalent for biological circuits (aka BioSPICE)
supported by DARPA
Posted by rshah on March 23, 2001| Comments (0)
Growth Hormones
Growth Hormones
A growing number of people are shooting up in the hope of fending off the aging process, according to the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine.
Posted by rshah on January 18, 2001| Comments (0)
Dean Kamen
Dean Kamen
Kamen, an inventrepreneur, has a robochair that climbs stairs, a miracle motor that fights disease, and a wild idea - that scientists will be superstars.
Posted by rshah on November 16, 2000| Comments (0)
Ready, Set, Mutate!
Ready, Set, Mutate!
Let the Olympic augmentations begin.
Posted by rshah on November 16, 2000| Comments (0)
Death of a Neighborhood
Death of a Neighborhood
Throughout the nation, cities are preparing for a new wave of urban renewal. Before they call in the bulldozers, officials may want to consider the fate of New Haven's once-bustling Oak Street district.
Posted by rshah on November 16, 2000| Comments (0)
Building Technologies
Building Technologies
Technologies and practices that improve the energy and resource efficiency of commercial and multi-unit residential buildings
Posted by rshah on November 02, 2000| Comments (0)
Sex appeal of sweat goes on sale
Sex appeal of sweat goes on sale
A London biotechnology firm yesterday launched a brand of moist tissues soaked in the scent of 50 human pheromones - the sweat molecules responsible for sex appeal.
Posted by rshah on October 04, 2000| Comments (0)
Distributed Manipulation
Distributed Manipulation
Reznik's work is part of a larger field called distributed manipulation. It dispenses with complex machinery like robot arms, and instead employs thousands of simple actuators like magnets or air nozzles.
Posted by rshah on October 04, 2000| Comments (0)
Guiding Air Traffic with GPS
Posted by rshah on September 25, 2000| Comments (0)
Layout of an Office Space
Posted by rshah on August 23, 2000| Comments (0)
Highly efficient gasoline fuel processor for fuel cell vehicles
Highly efficient gasoline fuel processor for fuel cell vehicles
Posted by rshah on August 16, 2000| Comments (0)
Smart cameras with behavioral recognition software to detect crime
Smart cameras with behavioral recognition software to detect crime
Posted by rshah on August 09, 2000| Comments (0)
Mirror to deter potential suicides with trains
Mirror to deter potential suicides with trains
Since 1995, East Japan Railway Co.has taken various measures to prevent suicide jumps, including brightening the lights on platforms and painting rail crossings a fluorescent blue color., was at http://www.asianage.com/asianage/13052000/detnew07.htm
Posted by rshah on August 07, 2000| Comments (0)
Satellite Radio
Posted by rshah on July 30, 2000| Comments (0)
Satellite broadcasting of digital radio
Satellite broadcasting of digital radio
Posted by rshah on July 09, 2000| Comments (0)