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Soon, wheelchairs controlled by tongues

August 28, 2009

Scientists have developed a novel headset that makes it possible for a person suffering from spinal cord injury to precisely control a wheelchair or computer using the tongue.
The “tongue drive”, being trialled at Georgia Tech University, Atlanta, could also give astronauts a third hand in difficult situations like spacewalks.

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Facebook to face off with new web rivals

August 16, 2009

Facebook’s vision of becoming a “utility” that offers activities to keep people online for hours could set it on a collision course with the Web’s giants. In recent days, the No.1 social networking company revamped its search engine and bought a start-up that some call a rival to hot micro-blogging service Twitter. It is also [...]

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E-books to make school bags history

August 16, 2009

Australian students may soon be leaving their school bags behind as the e-book industry claims to include almost all books in light, hand-held portable devices within the next three years. These devices will not only be able to connect to the Internet, but will also store hundreds of e-textbooks loaned from school libraries or purchased [...]

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Time for neighbourhood networking, online

August 14, 2009

Very often, we end up finding that one special person we spent hours looking for, just a class, department or a street away. It was this realisation that led Kaviraj and a group of students from Sathyabama University in Chennai to create a neighbourhood networking site called areapal.com. The site, which was in a Beta [...]

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Sony adopting industry standard for e-books

August 14, 2009

Sony, in a challenge to Amazon’s Kindle, unveiled plans on Thursday to do away with the proprietary software on its electronic Sony Reader and convert its e-book store to an industry standard format. The Japanese electronics giant said the move “allows Sony to make its e-book store compatible with multiple devices and its Reader devices [...]

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cd tray won’t open | CD tray got stuck

July 10, 2009

Problem: With time, CD/DVD rom’s /writer’s tray gets worn out and they stop opening smoothly. Sometimes it so happens that you need to urgently load/unload a CD/DVD and the tray simply refuses to come out. So what to do in that case? See the solution below. Solution: Most of the CD/DVD roms/writers have a pin [...]

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SystemRescueCD for backup your system

September 30, 2008

SystemRescueCD is a small linux system that boots from a CD drive. There are a bunch of system administration tools that can change the partitions on the disk, rescue data, backup entire partitions for later use, or securely delete data amongst other things. SystemRescneCD is basically meant to backup your system or to repair it [...]

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