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Here's a photo of the ARM-based new Arduino board: http://www.semageek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/ArduinoDue.jpg


I am not sure it will be available in tiny forms like the Lilypad 
or the Nano though.

Cool stuff, thanks for posting.

Arduino is already based on ARM in its NetDuino variant, Netduino 
is also in micro variant (breadboard based).

Neutrino travels faster than light http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/5671848/Pillar-of-physics-challenged

The theorists who know what that are talking about will have a lot 
of fun with that evidence, Graham.


The rest of us can make things up -- like perhaps neutrinos are the 
only things that actually travel in a straight-line at a quantum 
level; photons take a longer path because they are bouncing around 
a bit.

actually travel in a straight-line

 :-D (Instead of the Relativity theory, you prefer to destroy the 
 Quantum mechanics?)

Or I should ask: Alongside with the Relativity theory you would like 
to destroy the Quantum mechanics as well?

Experimental results have demonstrated that effects due to entanglement 
travel at least thousands of times faster than the speed of light

travel at least thousands of times faster than the speed of light
 - except for the fact, that they actually don't "travel"

No, just teleport!

though if you have entangled pair, and you determine the spin direction 
of one pair, then the spin of the other is then set.  But .. the 
knowledge of the other spin is only known at the site where the first 
determination was made, and that information can not travel to the 
other site faster than light so perhaps the limit applies to that 
information?

Right -- it's similar to Ly Tin Weedle's proposed method of instantaneous 
information transfer by modulated torture of a small monarch:
   http://www.discworldmonthly.co.uk/tpquote.php?qn=353&mode=goto

New element discovered with atomic mass 312 http://www.appleseeds.org/governmentium.htm

That's funny :))) "Governmentium", "These 312 particles are held 
together by a force called morons" :))))

Sounds pretty interesting, but when will we see commercial deployment? 
Rossi is planning for October, this year, for his process. A Greek 
company is investing 200 million euros in the plant.


An update on the E-CAT: The Greek company that was investing in this 
plant, mysteriously can't pay the money, so the 1 MW plant is now 
supposed to be installed in the US instead.

Here are some pictures of the power plant:


http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/energi_miljo/energi/article3264361.ece


Another test was also conducted a couple of weeks ago, but it, like 
the other tests, did not show anything conclusively that the device 
really worked. It's highly suspicious.

What is that, another perpetuum-mobile like scam? :-)

Pekr, see this group on Apr-26 for a discussion about it.

Actually, despite the rift between Rossi and Defkalion, it seems 
that Defkalion is still on track to show their own tech (Rossi derived, 
I guess) in the near term. They just re-opened their forums.

and Rossi's own demo for October is still supposed to happen

Amazon announces crazy Kindle prices and their $199 tablet

it bugs me that they forked Android (based on a version prior to 
2.2) - that's a second strike. The first was that they bought Touchco, 
a very promising tech company which had one of the best and cheapest 
touchscreen implementations ($10/sq ft), good for both stylus and 
fingers. This should have been technology for the masses, not restricted 
to Amazon. Oh well, I guess it's still for the masses if they sell 
enough tablets with that tech, at some point. Forking Android though, 
screw them. With their user base, they have the potential to upset 
the Android cart.

No worse than MS buying some technology for Windows ...

Presumably it can be licensed

Amazon is cool but they seem to have the MS mentality of ignoring 
standards... "embrace and extend" i guess...

If they can lower the barrier to entry ... then I'm all for this.

The problem with Amazon is it's "Amazon store developer agreement" 
- http://www.readwriteweb.com/mobile/2011/04/igda-updates-warning-to-amazon-appstore-developers-its-not-a-misunderstanding.php

Yet another mobile OS coming? http://www.osnews.com/comments/25196
... I don't understand Samsung, as they have Bada. Also wondering, 
if HTC buys WebOS ....

If SpaceX can do what they show in this video, it looks promising:

http://www.spacex.com/assets/video/spacex-rtls-green.mp4

Looks cool. I'm wondering, why spacecrafts always have a smooth surface. 
Pinguins are known to have very little resistance, when they move 
through water, and they don't have a smooth surface because they 
used to have feathers. Sharks have a rough surface, I guess this 
also mean less resistance, when they move through water. A golf ball 
fly longer with all its little bulges, than if it had a smooth surface. 
Yet spacecrafts have smooth surfaces.

*penguins*

About shark skin and swimsuits:

http://www.curiocity.ca/everyday-science/sports/item/1001-sharks-in-the-pool.html

It probably depends on how much is gained by improving airflow around 
the rocket body in relation to reducing its mass.

And RIM has slashed $200 off their playbook line ...

Elon Musk needs really to learn how to be a public speaker. His talk 
is hard to follow.

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/technology/technology-news/the-dark-side-of-apple-one-mans-monologue-of-misery-20110930-1l0hg.html

The Woz apparently cried on seeing this presentation

The Woz apparently cried on seeing this show

Are our tech toys causing others to work in hell?

A golf ball fly longer with all its little bulges


Other way around, it has dimples, and a sharks skin is sort of like 
plates, and work the same way.

Yeah, I realized, the correct word is "dimples". "Bulges" and "dimples" 
are not too familar words to me.

In danish, it's the same word, "buler", even if they go in or out 
of the surface. Sometimes the word "fordybninger" is used, and those 
only go into the surface.

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/html5/articles/css-shaders.html

iPhone 5 - ha ha ha :-)

India $46 tablet released http://news.yahoo.com/india-launch-45-tablet-computer-211428621.html

Price hoped to drop to $10

Android 2.2 and 256Mb ram.  REBOL not preloaded

http://www.techspot.com/news/45748-unreal-engine-3-comes-to-adobe-flash-11.html

or better this link: http://www.unrealengine.com/insiderblog/unreal_engine_3_comes_to_flash

http://www.apple.com/stevejobs/

Wow, he almost held out to the last minute

Farewell, Steve.