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XBox Surgery

Posted on December 22nd, 2009 by jxh

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Next time your parents tell you to stop playing XBox, just tell them you’re practicing to become a brain surgeon. Iowa State engineers have created a way for doctors to plan a surgery or teach anatomy using an accurate, 3-D view of the inside of a patient’s body. Video after the jump.

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The Great Space Elevator

Posted on December 18th, 2009 by axb

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Perhaps you’ve read Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, Roald Dahl’s sequel to his beloved Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (if not, then you definitely should!). In the story, Charlie and Willy Wonka find themselves in a glass elevator orbiting the earth, where they end up fighting hostile aliens.

We mention this because, believe it or not, plans are afoot to create an actual elevator that ascends all the way into space, suspended by a paper-thin ribbon made of carbon nanotubes. [video after jump]

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3D Is the Way to Be: Engineering Avatar

Posted on December 16th, 2009 by axb

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Everyone take out your cardboard glasses, because these days more and more movies seem to be reaching into the next dimension. 3D movies have been around since the Great Depression and even enjoyed a brief surge of popularity in the 1950s, but recently this immersive format has returned with a vengeance.

This week Fox will release the 3D animated sci-fi movie Avatar, directed by James Cameron (who’s other projects include Terminator I and II, Alien).

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Happy Birthday, Gustave Eiffel

Posted on December 16th, 2009 by axb
Wired’s (12/16, Alfred) “This Day In Tech” blog reports that on this day in 1832, Gustave Eiffel was born in Dijon, France. In addition to designing the Eiffel Tower and the internal framework for the Statue of Liberty, his “other engineering works include the Porto viaduct over Portugal’s River Douro, the Pest railway station in Hungary, and the Nice observatory dome and Sioule Bridge in France.” He was also “the chief engineer of the locks in the unsuccessful French effort to build the Panama Canal.”

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Wired’s “This Day In Tech” blog reports that on this same day in 1832, Gustave Eiffel, a French structural engineer, was born in Dijon. Does his name sound familiar?

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Unmanned Glider Crosses Atlantic

Posted on December 15th, 2009 by axb

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The Scarlet Knight might sound like the name of the next big superhero, but it’s actually the first robotic deep-sea glider to cross the Atlantic Ocean. Without the aid of a propeller, this craft “flew” through the water, all the while communicating with scientists via GPS:

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