The black box was an idea developed by the Australian chemist David Warren, who after investigating in 1953 the accident of a Comet, the first commercial jet airplane, developed the idea of recording the voices of the pilots and the activity of the instruments in the cockpit of aircraft in a system capable of remaining safe after an accident.
The new interactive Augmented Reality technology adds virtual information to real scenarios and is already applied in fields such as aeronautics, leisure, medicine or education. Javier Pedreira, co-author of the Microsiervos blog, tells us about it.
Tired of driving around town looking for parking? Researchers from the UAB, the WorldSensing company and the Catalan Telecommunications Technology Center (CTTC) have developed a system called XALOC that locates free parking spaces on the street and guides the user to the nearest one.
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed computer software that in just a few hours managed to decipher most of the ancient Ugaritic language, an alphabetic Semitic language from 1400 BC made up of symbols.
NASA warns of a possible devastating solar storm in 2013. According to its estimates, solar plasma would seriously damage communication systems (television and Internet) and energy, and its effects would be 20 times more intense than those of Hurricane Katrina.
Antimony, beryllium, cobalt, gallium, indium, magnesium, niobium, tantalum, tungsten ... These are some of the 14 fundamental raw materials to make high-tech products such as mobile phones or mp3 players. And most are scarce on the European continent. The solution? Recycle, as recommended by the European Commission.
As national teams from all five continents battle to win the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa, a league of 3,000 robots from more than 40 nationalities are waging their own World Cup in Singapore. In this year's Robocup, the machines will compete on a soccer field to score the maximum number of goals and stop the greatest number of shots, under very similar rules that contemplate, for example, the possibility of expulsion in the event of a serious foul. or the penalty shoot-out in the event of a tie.
Do you already know PETMAN, the soldier robot? It is a new anthropomorphic robot created by Boston Dinamics that walks practically the same as a human that will be used to test whether the suits used by the US military are effective in protecting soldiers in a hypothetical exposure to chemical weapons.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
