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Mickey Mouse beams into your car
News OnStar, a division of US automobile company General Motors, said last week it has signed a deal to bring Internet content from Walt Disney Internet Group to cars with Net access. The move is aimed at beefing up OnStar's automobile data service...
[July 23, 2001, 16:06]
'Star Trek' auction beams up to eBay
News Some lucky "Star Trek" fan will have a chance to take the captain's seat in an upcoming auction available on eBay. Captain Kirk's command chair from the starship Enterprise will be one of some 374 mostly "Star Trek"-related lots that will go up for...
[June 21, 2002, 9:05]
Flash beams out of browser
News Software maker Macromedia on Wednesday released a test version of Central, a new add-on for its widespread Flash animation format that's intended to make Internet information easily available offline.
[September 25, 2003, 14:55]
Microsoft beams video to mobiles
News Software giant Microsoft said on Thursday that it is launching a wireless video delivery system for mobile devices in partnership with a pair of digital media content and applications makers. The software, called MobileVision, is meant to provide a...
[March 12, 2004, 10:25]
Gyration Ultra Cordless Optical Mouse & Mobile Keyboard review
Reviews As you move the mouse, the waggly beams try to continue to move in the same direction as they did before; the battle between how they want to move and how they're being made to move creates Coriolis forces that measure movement up and down and...
[November 6, 2002, 8:20]
Intel splits light to speed chips
News Intel scientists split a light beam into two separate beams by passing it through silicon. They then used a transistor-like device to hit one beam with an electric charge, inducing a "phase shift" -- effectively moving the light wave along a bit...
[February 17, 2004, 9:30]
A look at the damage that halted the LHC
News The particle accelerator was damaged by a liquid helium leak in September, nine days into an experiment to test fundamental theories of physics by colliding beams of protons inside a 27km ring. The superconducting magnets, used to direct and focus...
[December 10, 2008, 15:55]
LHC on course for November restart
News James Gillies, head of communications for Cern, told ZDNet UK on Monday that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) would probably be ready to collide beams of particles by mid-November. The magnets which will guide the beams are being powered up in these...
[October 5, 2009, 14:05]
Robo for Symbian UIQ
Downloads In order to move, our hero has to block laser beams that guard all passageways or destroy laser cannons. This objective can be reached by moving stones to block laser beams, using bombs to explode laser cannons or even, for the gaming Einsteins...
[November 6, 2008, 23:12]
Robo for Symbian UIQ v.3
Downloads In order to move, our hero has to block laser beams that guard all passageways or destroy laser cannons. This objective can be reached by moving stones to block laser beams, using bombs to explode laser cannons or even, for the gaming Einsteins...
[November 6, 2008, 23:13]
Case Study #2: Riverside Avenue Bridge, Greenwich
White Papers The truss's floor beams (themselves a 1925 alteration) were partly cut away to create clearance for four I-beams, which carry a new concrete-slab deck. Because it is adjacent to a railroad station, Riverside Avenue Bridge carries substantial traffic.
[November 19, 2008, 23:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Laser beams have many useful roles to play in IT. Only if Dr Evil has a thing for sharks with frickin' laser beams in their heads, he'll probably want to steal the MX1000 - it's a mouse with a frickin' laser beam.
[August 27, 2004, 17:20]
Large Hadron Collider aces pre-launch testing
News Synchronisation between the SPS and the LHC to within a fraction of a nanosecond is crucial to the LHC project, which will involve sending particle beams around the 27km-long circular tunnel at unprecedented energies, then smashing them into each...
[August 26, 2008, 12:16]
LHC restart now on hold until September
News The European Organization for Nuclear Research, or Cern, the organisation that built the LHC, announced on Monday that it expects the first beams to begin in September, with the first collisions expected by late October.
[February 10, 2009, 8:23]
IBM saves chipmaking kit from an early bath
News In IBM's system, light from the laser is split into two beams. Then, a tool called Nemo weaves the two beams to create an interference pattern that allows for a pattern with more closely etched lines than can be achieved in standard immersion...
[February 20, 2006, 15:35]
Belkin Wireless PDA keyboard review
Reviews The handheld stand itself contains several pieces -- a kickstand to prop up on your desk, a wire shelf to hold your handheld and an extendable arm with a mirror to reflect IR beams -- that felt flimsy, leaving us concerned about the keyboard's...
[October 22, 2004, 9:15]
LHC cooled to operational temperatures
News As three of the sectors were cooled to nominal operating temperatures, the magnets which guide and focus the beams of protons were powered up, said the bulletin. This is the amount of energy needed to guide beams with a nominal energy of 3.5 TeV...
[October 19, 2009, 14:56]
Large Hadron Collider faces two-month shutdown
News The LHC experiments involve accelerating two beams of subatomic particles — called hadrons — in opposite directions to more than 99.9 percent the speed of light. Smashing the beams together will create showers of new particles for physicists to...
[September 22, 2008, 8:18]
Cern: Electrical fault caused LHC helium leak
News Around a vacuum chamber, dipole magnets are used to keep two opposing proton beams on their paths, while quadrupole magnets focus the beams. The fault occurred while the magnets' electrical field was being increased to guide and focus the proton...
[October 17, 2008, 16:13]
Revived LHC could run through the winter
News The particle beams are designed to run at a maximum of 7 TeV, and have run at around 5 TeV. The LHC experiment, designed to smash beams of nuclear particles into each other, was brought to a halt nine days after it was started.
[May 27, 2009, 17:02]
