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An unassuming Edwardian house in an equally unassuming Melbourne suburb has undergone a remarkable cloud-shaped extension

Architecture

"Cloud House" billows from unassuming Edwardian home

An unassuming Edwardian house in an equally unassuming Melbourne suburb has undergone a remarkable cloud-shaped extension.

The Sony NSZ-GS7 Google TV box has a redesigned remote with touchpad and QWERTY keypad

Electronics

Sony to become first major manufacturer to take Google TV global with new set top box

With the upcoming release of its new NSZ-GS7 Internet Player and NSZ-GP9 Blu-ray Disc player with Google TV, Sony will be the first major manufacturer to launch Google TV devices outside the U.S.

Computer rendition of SuperMUC rendered by SuperMUC (Image: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften)

Science

Europe's fastest supercomputer uses warm water cooling to conserve energy and heat buildings

IBM's SuperMUC supercomputer, the fastest in Europe, has been developed alongside an innovative hot water-cooled mechanism that is 40 percent more energy-efficient than air-cooled technology.

Google Australia has announced the release of Build with Chrome (or Build for short), perhaps the simplest online LEGO builder we've seen, and one that works right in your browser - as long as its Chrome

Computing

Build with Chrome: LEGO in your browser

Google Australia has announced the release of Build with Chrome (or Build for short), perhaps the simplest online LEGO builder we've seen, and one that works right in your browser - as long as its Chrome.

The OmniVision OV16820 16-megapixel CameraChip sensor

Mobile Technology

New OmniVision sensor chips promise 4K2K smartphone videos

Two new CameraChip sensors from OmniVision allow for burst photography and Quad Full High Definition video in smartphones, digital cameras and video cameras.

The Dragon spacecraft, held by the ISS manipulator arm (Image: NASA)

Science

SpaceX Dragon successfully grappled by ISS

The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft has successfully reached the International Space Station.

A close-up view of the microlenses making up the biochip array

Science

Researchers create first of its kind invisibility cloak array

Scientists have created an array of microlenses that slow down or stop light, which could be used to identify biological substances.

Locomotive 3463, the 75 year-old test bed locomotive for CSR's Project 130

Environment

CSR project aims to create a high-speed, carbon-neutral steam-powered locomotive

The Coalition for Sustainable Rail is aiming to convert a 1937 locomotive into the world’s first carbon-neutral higher-speed locomotive.

Eelke Folmer watches as student Dora Uchel demonstrates the Navatar system

Mobile Technology

Navatar system could help the blind navigate indoors

Navatar is an experimental smartphone-based system, that allows the visually impaired to navigate within buildings.

Gemballa promises that its diamond finish will be a friend of both men and women

Automotive

Porsche tuning house Gemballa introduces diamond-based car coating

Gemballa is introducing what it calls the world's first diamond finish, a vehicle paint made from real diamonds.

A new efficiency record of 8.6 percent for graphene solar cells using graphene doped with TFSA (Photo: Shutterstock)

Environment

Doping leads to new efficiency record for graphene solar cells

Doping graphene with trifluoromethanesulfonyl-amide (TFSA) has enabled researchers at the University of Florida (UF) to set a new efficiency record of 8.6 percent for graphene solar cells.

Researchers have demonstrated a tractor beam using a Bessel beam (not pictured) is theoretically possible (Photo: Shutterstock)

Science

Bessel beam "tractor beam" concept theoretically demonstrated

Researchers at Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) have now proven the theory behind the concept of a Bessel beam-based "tractor beam."

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