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The FN Herstal Black Box can fit any weapon and provide useful information to the armed forces upper command levels

Military

FN Herstal releases Black Box for weapons

Weapons manufacturer FN Herstal has created a Black Box that detects, discriminates, counts shots, measures burst rates and burst lengths, records firing sequences and detects stoppages due to failures to cycle.

The silica nanoparticle coating changes the surface of the wool to make it more water absorbent (Image American Chemical Society)

Science

Silica nanoparticles make wool even more wonderful

A discovery by Chinese scientists could give wool a “brain,” placing it among other “smart” fabrics that shake off wrinkles, shrinkage and “breathe” to release perspiration.

Printing Your Toast design concept from Othmar Muhlebach is designed to toast bread one slice at a time

Around The Home

Printing Your Toast: a fun way to start the day

Othmar Muhlebach's Printing Your Toast has won second prize in the Berner Design Awards

Our growth curve over the last 30 months - many thanks for your valuable time.

Good Thinking

Two million eyeballs a month - thanks for your valuable time

As the majority of the business world gets set to take a break after an extremely difficult year, we’d like to say a million thanks to our readers for your kind patronage during 200

The glass dosimeter detects the buildup of pollutant gases in picture cases (Photo: K. Dobberke, Fraunhofer ISC)

Electronics

New sensors protect priceless paintings in transit

Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research ISC in Würzburg, Germany, have built sensors that will detect dangerous gas build-ups within the shipping crates of treasured paintings.

Picture your standard blogging software, with an option to switch to a 3D Second Life-ish world, only cuter and with simpler graphics

Computers

Japan's Ameba Pigg blogging platform poised for Facebook launch

In the English speaking world, the free blogging platforms that stand out from the crowd are Google's Blogger and Wordpress.com. While those services are also popular in Japan, a particularly strong homegrown contender is Ameba.jp.

LG reclaims the crown of world's thinnest with a 2.6mm thin LCD TV panel

Home Entertainment

LG claims world’s thinnest LCD TV crown with 2.6mm thin 42-inch panel

LG has managed to break the 3mm barrier to produce a 42-inch, 1920 x 1080, LCD TV panel measuring just 2.6mm (0.1-inch) thin.

Motorcycles

The AsphaltFighter Stormbringer - 280 bhp production motorcycle

German company Asphaltfighters' latest creation has the most outrageous set of raw numbers we’ve seen for a production motorcycle.

The E-Cleaner features a sanitizing UV lamp which complements the cleaning power of the vacuum

Around The Home

ASUS hoping to clean up with robotic E-Cleaner

ASUS's subsidiary AGAiT looks set to enter the domestic appliance market with the forthcoming release of the EC01 robotic vacuum cleaner

A recent prototype of the On Running Shoe - the final design will be unveiled in February, 2010

Sports

On running shoe: shock-absorbers for your feet

Using a patented hollow circular piece of rubber with locking teeth the On Running Shoe provides runners with a landing as soft as if running on sand, and a push off as firm as if running in track shoes.

The CyberQuad UAV uses four ducted rotors for stable, stealthy flight in urban or enclosed environments

Aircraft

CyberQuad: best of both worlds UAV designed for urban reconnaissance

The CyberQuad unmanned aerial vehicle from Cyber Technology is a remote-control reconnaissance platform with four ducted rotors for stable, stealthy flight in urban environments.

Leonardo da Vinci used the golden ratio in the Mona Lisa

Architecture

Secret of the golden ratio revealed

A Duke University scientist believes he has figured out the secret behind the popularity of the golden ratio – and it’s all down to evolution.

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