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Produce 250,000 times the temperature of the sun
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Produce 250,000 times the temperature of the sun

Physicists at Brookhaven National Laboratory (USA) have been included in the Guinness Book of Records because, in a series of experiments on the collisions of gold ions…

December 11, 2018
The world's lightest paper e-book
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The world's lightest paper e-book

The Flex One boasts a 6-inch XGA (1024 x 768) monochrome display with up to 8GB of memory, twice the size of the Kindle DX and up to four new Amazon Kindle models, while…

December 11, 2018
Electronic books emit light
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Electronic books emit light

Dubbed the 'Simple Touch and Light', the Nook uses an LED system to illuminate when light from the surrounding environment is too small. Light emits enough to no…

December 11, 2018
Flip book is like paper books
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Flip book is like paper books

Scientists at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have recently developed a technology that allows users to turn e-book pages like paper books.

December 11, 2018
The first color e-paper in the world
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The first color e-paper in the world

Wisereader E920 is a reading device using color electronic paper, equipment manufactured by Hanvon. Different from this product is the Wisereader E920 allows users to ac…

December 11, 2018
i-Sobot - Robot of 2008
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i-Sobot - Robot of 2008

The i-Sobot robot, once recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's smallest humanoid robot, was commercially produced, crowned ...

December 11, 2018
Robot teaching
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Robot teaching

'Hello children, let's start this lesson today, do you open the book?' In a standard English voice, teacher Tiro attracted the children from the words

December 11, 2018
'Reading' with ultra-powerful X-rays
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'Reading' with ultra-powerful X-rays

Content contained in ancient books can be read with a powerful light source that is more than 10 billion times brighter than the Sun thanks to a new technique developed…

December 11, 2018
'Electronic paper' is coming close to consumers
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'Electronic paper' is coming close to consumers

'Electronic paper' has long been considered the future of paper and books, but over time, products like e-books have not met consumers' expectations. This fact may soon…

December 11, 2018