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...latest topographical study indicates that Herakleion was an ancient version of Venice, a city where canals were as prevalent as roads. If Goddio seems like a wizard pulling off astonishing tricks, he has a magician's secret: a nuclear resonance magnetometer, a torpedo-shaped super-sensing device that can detect likely antiquities by measuring the relative density of submerged objects against the earth's magnetic field. As it is towed on the surface, the magnetometer relays data to the survey ship that are plotted on to a computerized grid connected to the satellite-based Global Positioning System. Goddio says that...
...routers and network cards come with software to walk you through the installation. The steps will vary slightly, depending on each computer's operating system. The older the OS, the trickier it can be; Windows XP is designed to detect and configure a PC card to talk to an existing network, and getting an iBook running Mac OS X to communicate with my Linksys router was a breeze...
...could provide enhanced mobility to the elderly and infirm. Developed at Tokyo's Science University by Hiroshi Kobayashi, whose previous research focused on lifelike robotic faces, this Lycra suit employs tiny air canisters to inflate rubber muscles that boost the strength of the wearer's actual muscles. Pressure sensors detect the wearer's movements and direct the suit accordingly. AUTO SECURITY Remote Control Car thieves beware. A student in Bangalore, India has devised a system that can remotely immobilize a car after it has been stolen. The N-S Aero-Stop uses a transmitter and antenna to send a signal...
...autistic people--even high-functioning autistic people--the ability to read the internal state of another person comes only after long struggle, and even then most of them fail to detect the subtle signals that normal individuals unconsciously broadcast. "I had no idea that other people communicated through subtle eye movements," says autistic engineer Temple Grandin, "until I read it in a magazine five years...
...Swedish results hold up, there still may not be any cause for alarm. "Just because you can detect something doesn't mean it's significant," says Mary Ellen Camire, professor of food science and nutrition at the University of Maine in Orono. Our tools for detecting the presence of minute quantities of contaminants, she points out, are far more refined than our understanding of how the body deals with them...