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An interesting concept for generating renewable energy is the Atmospheric Vortex Engine.

This is an extension of the principal of the solar chimney. The solar chimney is a device where a current of air is created by the difference in temperature and hence pressure between the base and the top of the stack.

The issue with this [...]

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Is this the future of computing? The TactaPad apparently lets you control the cursor on screen by just using your hands on the special pad. It even shows a shadow of your fingers on screen, so that you can see where they are pointing.

Either this is an elaborate hoax, or it is a real product, [...]

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Some rather cool Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena. There are (currently) 57 of these, many with interactive demos in Quicktime video or are Flash based, and many also have an explanation of why we see what we do. There are also plenty of links to sources and further reading to keep you amused. (Probably [...]

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I have just finished reading one of my Christmas presents, Bill Bryson’s “A Short History of Nearly Everything”. The book is quite weighty, at 570 odd pages long, but it is actually surprisingly easy and enjoyable to read… if you like numbers. And this book is full of some very large, and very small [...]

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Astounding is the word that comes to mind when viewing this short animation of the impact. As an animated picture is probably worth more than a thousand words, I don’t feel I need write anything else.

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