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Singapore offers free Wi-Fi coverage nationwide
Since January 2007, Lion Island will promote the project to provide free wireless Internet in all public places. Called Wireless @ SG, this initiative has just been anno…
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China built the first underwater railway for bullet ships
The first high-speed railway for bullet ships in China will be longer than 16km, connecting the port city of Ningbo and the Chu San Islands.
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Automatic oyster vending machines in France
Tony Berthelot, an oyster farmer on the island of Île de Ré, off the southwestern coast of France, pioneered the sale of live oysters through vending machines.
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The artificial island supplies electricity to 80 million people in Europe
The island is equipped with solar panels and wind turbines that can power tens of millions of people in six European countries.
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Tesla provides solar power to the entire Samoa archipelago
After acquiring SolarCity, the Tesla Group announced a major energy project: supplying electricity to the entire island of Ta'u in the American Samoa archipelago fro…
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New detection can help pinpoint the exact location of the MH370
Analysis of oysters on the fragment of MH370 can help authorities find the clues of the aircraft has mysteriously disappeared over two years.
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Russia extracted rare metals from volcanic gases
Russia will build the first plant to extract rare Rhenium from volcanic lava on the Iturup Islands of the South Kuril Islands, Sakhalin.
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The first wave-producing model of electricity from the sea
Ocean energy is a trend in Australia.
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8-hour LED illumination with a glass of salt water
Power shortages on many of the islands in the Philippines have prompted an engineer to create 8-hour light bulbs with just one glass of salt water.
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Use UAV to transport drugs
For the first time in the world, pharmaceuticals and essentials will be shipped to Juist Island, the North Sea, at some point of the day by unmanned aerial vehicles.
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Marvelous robot knows operation
Miracles are taking place on Russky Island in Russia's Far East. A new medical center has been opened here, where four-arm robots and surgeons perform complex cancer…
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Rao the artificial peninsula million for the super-rich
According to the Discovery magazine, the expensive item called 'Orsos Island' has relatively modest size, only 20x37m. It has no motive but can be anchored where…
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The last minute robot for dying
Design designer Dan Chen of Rhode Island has designed The Last Moment Robot - for lone patients who are dying without their loved ones.
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Successfully tested the tidal turbine
The Hammerfest Strom HS1000 was launched winter on Eday Island in northern Orkey, Scotland. This is an experimental device that demonstrates how technology can be effect…
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Cooler air due to bright roofs
The principle of absorption and reflection of light as once again is demonstrated when a team of NASA scientists published results of studies on the heat absorption capa…