Ole Marggraf - Slashdot User

Journal Journal: Argonne Hydrogen Catalyst Tools For Desalination

Journal by cakilmer on Friday March 09, 2007 @03:51PM

Argonne Labratories has just announced some advances in catalysts for fuel cells. They have developed some cool tools for catalytic research in doing so -- which I think might be applicable to desalination research as well. The idea would be to have a catalyst settle Na & Cl out of solution and skim off the fresh water. This would be an extremely cheap process. So cheap it would make it

Submission + - First Dynamically Balancing Biped Robot

Submitted by damg on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @01:28PM

damg writes: Anybots has developed the first robot which walks like we do, by dynamically balancing itself rather than being pre-programmed for walking like Asimo. The video shows the robot walking and being pushed by another "bully" robot to demonstrate that he can't easily be pushed over.

Submission + - Wireless portable cell phone drive unveiled

Submitted by on Friday February 02, 2007 @08:47AM

An anonymous reader writes: According to CNET, Seagate has unveiled a new portable drive that fits in the palm of your hand and has a 20GB capacity, but most importantly features Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity. It's called DAVE, which stands for Digital Audio Video Experience and it lets you 'stream music, videos and other data to your mobile. It can also interact with a variety of other devices, such as PDAs, laptops, PCs and cameras, making it perfect for transferring data from your phone to another device or vice versa.'

Dreamworks Dumps Wallace and Gromit 189

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday February 02, 2007 @04:11AM from the just-need-some-space dept.

Tiger4 writes "Aardman Animation and Dreamworks are splitting their relationship. Apparently Dreamworks feels they lost money on 'Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were Rabbit' and 'Flushed Away.' So off to their separate ways they go. Aardman is going back to stop motion and clay, Dreamworks will be staying with their CGI ways." In addition, Aardman Animation announced that a new Wallace and Gromit film is in the works.

Slashdot Top Deals