From meatballs to motors
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Life & style: On a London industrial estate, 25,000 litres of used cooking oil are turned into biodiesel every month - so why the flak from environmentalists?
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Researchers developing robotic lobsters, flies, dogs and cockroaches believe that machines inspired by biology will be able to operate in places where today's robots cannot go.
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A grinding floppy, a screeching modem, a clacking dot-matrix printer ... these nostalgic computing sounds bring back memories of simple, nerdy pleasures. Commentary by Lore Sj&#246;berg.
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A new process gives plastics electronics researchers the best of both worlds -- electrical performance and processability
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A sampling of ideas from the next generation of consumers--and entrepreneurs.
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Humanoid devices will be used to encourage interest in science and technology.
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Blog: Get your motor running. Head out on Mass. Ave. A group of MIT students aim to show that electric cars could be viable in the near future.
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Sure, '60s-era beach bums dug the Volkswagen bus. Now a research lab enhances one with souped-up electronics. From Wired magazine.
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Sci-fi versions of baby blocker in a can could turn out to be loads of fun. In Sex Drive Daily.
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Researchers developing robotic lobsters, flies, dogs cockroaches believe that machines inspired by biology will be able to operate in places where today's robots cannot go.
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In the past couple of years, robots have started to move around and work independently. Just don't expect them to look, walk and talk like C3PO in the Star Wars movies -- rolling and beeping like R2D2 is more like it.
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Haptic feedback - it's the new herpes Mobile World Congress I'm only here because of a terrible misunderstanding. When the News Editor asked if I wanted to go to "Mobile World Congress", I naturally jumped at the chance. Pictures of caravans, camping equipment and motorized Zimmer Frames swam before my eyes. You know - really useful stuff. Some of the best design and technology goes into camping clobber these days, and as the proud owner of a JetBoil, I began to plot how I could blag some accessories.â¦
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Science & environment: It now seems that just about anything can be sold as being 'green'. Ravi Somaiya goes in search of some of the more weird and wonderful examples.
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DaimlerChrysler and General Motors help biodiesel -- fuel that can be made from soybeans -- gain some traction in the United States and Europe. By John Gartner.
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The burgermeister's latest numbers are meatier than they seem.
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Meat wagons hitched to wireless bandwagon
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A new generation of car technologies promises to add more fun and functionality to motoring.