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Sep 23, 2015

What are Quantum Dots?

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NIBIB’s 60 Seconds of Science explains how quantum dots work and why they glow.

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Sep 22, 2015

New smartphone prototype can be charged by sound

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Just by being exposed to ambient sound like traffic noise, people talking, or music playing, this new phone can charge itself. It’s being developed by researchers in the UK, and Nokia.

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Sep 22, 2015

Unofficial Tesla Drone Could Change Filmmaking Forever

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Start jotting down your Christmas list for next year, because the Tesla Drone will be the hottest next thing! — B.J. Murphy for Serious WOnder.

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Sep 16, 2015

10 Crazy Discoveries That Science Can’t Explain

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Scientific discoveries that remain unexplained… (HD — 03/2015)

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Sep 16, 2015

Future’s 10 Mind-Blowing Scenarios for Interstellar Travel

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Time for Humanity to discover what’s outside the backyard… (HD — 12/2014)

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Sep 14, 2015

Batband headphones provide ears-free listening

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Listening to music via headphones can isolate the listener from the rest of the world. The new Batband bone conduction headphones, however, allow users to to still hear what is going on around them. Audio is transmitted through the bones of the skull, while the ears remain uncovered.

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Sep 14, 2015

SteadXP The Future of Video Stabilization

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Sep 12, 2015

Listen To The Solar System Sing With This Fantastic Simulation

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This is a seriously cool visualization of the solar system. What if you turned the planets into a sort of music box? That’s the point of Solarbeat, which turns the movement of the planets into music.

Solarbeat actually launched five years ago in 2010, but the designer Luke Twyman decided to revamp the website recently in light of the New Horizons and Dawn missions.

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Sep 11, 2015

Polaroid’s Latest Instant Camera Doesn’t Need Ink — By Margaret Rhodes | Wired

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“The Snap—Ammunition’s third design for Polaroid, after last year’s Cube action camera and Zip instant mobile printer—is a decidedly modern instant camera. Unlike its predecessors, it doesn’t use ink cartridges. Instead, it uses inkless printing tech developed by a company called Zink. Heat from the printer reacts with dye crystals embedded in the photo paper to create the image.”

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Sep 10, 2015

A Brief History Of Star Wars Canon, Old And New — By James Whitbrook | io9

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“When a franchise is around for four decades, it can get impossibly unwieldy to try and grasp its lore — and Star Wars canon is no exception. Here’s a guide to the origins of Star Wars Canon, the rise and fall of one of the most prominent Expanded Universes in fiction, and where the saga stands with Disney today.”

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