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Dr. James Levine on his Walk-At-Work treadmill

Fitness & Exercise

Developing a viable cure for office worker obesity

May 22, 2007 Sitting still at a desk all day - like you're probably doing right now - is making the average office worker fatter and less healthy than we've eve

IBM's new POWER6 chip is a 64 bit, dual-core processor with 790 million transistors running at up to 4.7 GHz and eight megabytes of on chip Level 2 cache. The company today launched its first new POWER6 server, the IBM System p 570, which has set 25 perfo

Computers

IBM unleashes World's Fastest Chip

May 22, 2007 IBM today simultaneously launched the fastest microprocessor ever built and an ultra-powerful new computer server that leverages the chip’s many b

Motorcycles

Dainese seeks beta testers for helmet-to-helmet communication system

May 25, 2007 In a move that could spell the end of meditative 'zen' motorcycling, Dainese is looking for beta testers for their D-Nect helmet to helmet communic

Mobile Technology

Carbon Fiber heating technology for portable warming oven

May 22, 2007 This is a technology with a wide range of application beyond its most obvious function of keeping food warm. Methode Development has developed a

James Brooke and Rowan Brook with their folded-up MiniCat

Marine

Collapsible catamaran fits in a sports bag

May 23, 2007 Part of sailing's exclusive reputation is due to the considerable cost and inconvenience of owning, transporting and storing watercraft. A UK compa

Wellness and Healthy Living

Swedish researchers develop digital color x-rays

May 23, 2007 The advantages of color x-rays may not be immediately obvious but the developments in this field led by researchers at Mid Sweden University prom

Mobile Technology

The Walkman is back - Sony announces A800 series with digital audio and video

May 18, 2007 Consumer electronics giant Sony once ruled the world of portable audio - their Walkman and Discman brands became synonymous for hand held cassette

The ESA's GlobCover project produced this composite map of Earth.

Aircraft

The sharpest ever satellite map of Earth

May 18, 2007 The European Space Agency's GlobCover project has unveiled the most detailed portraits ever of the Earth's land surface. Using around 40 Terabytes

Around The Home

Nespresso Lattissima with one-touch milk frother

May 22, 2007 Coffee is the world’s second most traded commodity, behind only oil. The short “blast” afforded by a concentrated caffeine hit has become part of

Holiday Destinations

Making history – your vote decides the new seven wonders of the world

May 21, 2007 On the seventh of July – the seventh of the seventh, 2007 to be exact – it will be out with the old and in with the...old. Bernard Weber and the

Marine

A modern engineering masterpiece - the nuclear sub that will go 25 years without refuelling

May 21, 2007 A hulking 100 metres long, the Astute is the largest, most heavily armed, stealthiest and most sophisticated submarine ever built for the Royal Nav

Urban Transport

Razor Ripstik cashes in on the caster board wave.

May 27, 2007 Hot on the heels of the EssBoard , the eXboard and the Wave Board comes another two-wheeled caster board, the Ripstik from Razor. Feeling a bit li

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