http://slashdot.org/ News for nerds, stuff that matters en-us Copyright 1997-2009, Geeknet, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 2009-11-28T09:30:15+00:00 Geeknet, Inc. help@slashdot.org Technology hourly 1 1970-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://a.fsdn.com/sd/topics/topicslashdot.gif http://slashdot.org/ http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/b-wGiyXO-xQ/Flexible-Color-OLED-Screens-for-E-Readers nadiskafadi writes "Taiwanese researchers have shown off several flexible display technologies in an endeavor to promote e-readers and e-paper. One of the newest technologies from the Industrial Technology Research Institute was a flexible 4.1-inch color OLED (organic light emitting diode) display, which it claims is for the next era of portable devices."<p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/11/28/032242/Flexible-Color-OLED-Screens-for-E-Readers?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/28/032242"></a></p><p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/11/28/032242/Flexible-Color-OLED-Screens-for-E-Readers?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/MoK1i_1T6rMH4UZwq-sdyeN3cz4/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/MoK1i_1T6rMH4UZwq-sdyeN3cz4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/MoK1i_1T6rMH4UZwq-sdyeN3cz4/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/MoK1i_1T6rMH4UZwq-sdyeN3cz4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/b-wGiyXO-xQ" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2009-11-28T07:12:00+00:00 handheld still-waiting-on-a-kindle-killer mobile 25 25,25,17,14,7,3,1 http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/11/28/032242/Flexible-Color-OLED-Screens-for-E-Readers?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/IW_XsiaAq9c/Apple-Forced-To-Clean-Up-Its-Fine-Print Barence writes "Apple has been forced to tidy up its online terms and conditions, at the behest of the UK's Office of Fair Trading. The company has redrafted its Ts &amp; Cs so that it now accepts liability for faulty or misdescribed goods sold from its website or the iTunes store. Apple must also ensure that its conditions are 'drafted in plain or intelligible language' and that they 'do not potentially allow changes to be made to products and prices after an agreement is made.'"<p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/11/28/013255/Apple-Forced-To-Clean-Up-Its-Fine-Print?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/28/013255"></a></p><p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/11/28/013255/Apple-Forced-To-Clean-Up-Its-Fine-Print?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/8xc_phUoiYpb8wd-m-JeAMzvF4k/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/8xc_phUoiYpb8wd-m-JeAMzvF4k/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/8xc_phUoiYpb8wd-m-JeAMzvF4k/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/8xc_phUoiYpb8wd-m-JeAMzvF4k/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/IW_XsiaAq9c" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2009-11-28T05:09:00+00:00 business by-reading-this-you-bequeath-me-all-your-possessions apple 43 43,39,36,26,6,2,2 http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/11/28/013255/Apple-Forced-To-Clean-Up-Its-Fine-Print?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/d2VVPNaIkqk/-Algae-Could-Be-the-Key-To-Ultra-Thin-Batteries MikeChino writes "Algae is often touted as the next big thing in biofuels, but the slimy stuff could also be the key to paper-thin biodegradable batteries, according to researchers at Uppsala University in Sweden. Uppsala researcher Maria Stromme and her team has found that the smelly algae species that clumps on beaches, known as Cladophora, can also be used to make a type of cellulose that has 100 times the surface area of cellulose found in paper. That means it can hold enough conducting polymers to effectively recharge and hold electricity for long amounts of time. Eventually, the bio batteries could compete with commercial lithium-ion batteries."<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/28/0023254/-Algae-Could-Be-the-Key-To-Ultra-Thin-Batteries?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/28/0023254"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/28/0023254/-Algae-Could-Be-the-Key-To-Ultra-Thin-Batteries?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/lBH9_SVCD0UO7HlJFMBLMqOYxfk/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/lBH9_SVCD0UO7HlJFMBLMqOYxfk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/lBH9_SVCD0UO7HlJFMBLMqOYxfk/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/lBH9_SVCD0UO7HlJFMBLMqOYxfk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/d2VVPNaIkqk" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2009-11-28T03:10:00+00:00 biotech green-power-that's-actually-green hardware 32 32,29,25,23,6,3,1 http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/28/0023254/-Algae-Could-Be-the-Key-To-Ultra-Thin-Batteries?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/AeNL4947IZ0/3D-Video-Game-Collaboration-Used-To-Solve-Crimes eldavojohn writes "Reuters explains how the National Science Foundation's Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) program is funding research used to implement real life crimes in a CSI-like game. They will use IC-CRIME's laser scanner technology and the Unity platform (which recently enjoyed the release of a freeware version) to recreate the crime scene as closely as possible. The crime scene will then be hosted for multiple remote crime scene investigators to explore concurrently while discussing what they see, sharing their data and experience as well as learning and asking questions."<p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/11/27/2334220/3D-Video-Game-Collaboration-Used-To-Solve-Crimes?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/27/2334220"></a></p><p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/11/27/2334220/3D-Video-Game-Collaboration-Used-To-Solve-Crimes?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/XCTJpBcdLWRifXx9hF65IblLaTM/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/XCTJpBcdLWRifXx9hF65IblLaTM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/XCTJpBcdLWRifXx9hF65IblLaTM/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/XCTJpBcdLWRifXx9hF65IblLaTM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/AeNL4947IZ0" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2009-11-28T01:14:00+00:00 games world-of-csi-craft games 35 35,28,22,14,5,2,2 http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/11/27/2334220/3D-Video-Game-Collaboration-Used-To-Solve-Crimes?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/hV8AgsqVdyw/Cassini-Captures-Saturns-Northern-Lights al0ha writes "In the first video showing the auroras above the northern latitudes of Saturn, Cassini has spotted the tallest known 'northern lights' in the solar system, flickering in shape and brightness high above the ringed planet. The new video reveals changes in Saturn's aurora every few minutes, in high resolution, with three dimensions. The images show a previously unseen vertical profile to the auroras, which ripple in the video like tall curtains. These curtains reach more than 1,200 kilometers (750 miles) above the edge of the planet's northern hemisphere."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/27/2324236/Cassini-Captures-Saturns-Northern-Lights?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/27/2324236"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/27/2324236/Cassini-Captures-Saturns-Northern-Lights?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fyyDndDONmA22EpgGoi_sBdoxqY/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fyyDndDONmA22EpgGoi_sBdoxqY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fyyDndDONmA22EpgGoi_sBdoxqY/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fyyDndDONmA22EpgGoi_sBdoxqY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/hV8AgsqVdyw" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2009-11-28T00:26:00+00:00 space cassini-rules science 26 26,23,15,8,2,2,1 http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/27/2324236/Cassini-Captures-Saturns-Northern-Lights?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Z5K37kpfzcA/-Google-Attack-On-the-Mobile-Market-Rumored xchg writes in with a somewhat speculative, though plausible, piece from WiseAndroid claiming that Google is gearing up for an all-out assault on the mobile-phone market that will include a new, Google-branded handset and the first comprehensive Google phone service with unlimited free calls. "The real breakthrough, however, will come with the marriage of the Googlephone to Google Voice, the Californian company&rsquo;s high-tech phone service. Google Voice gives US users a free phone number and allows unlimited free calls to any phone in the country &mdash; landline or mobile. International calls start from... just over a penny a minute. Google Voice also uses sophisticated voice recognition to turn voicemails into emails, can block telemarketing calls automatically and offers free text messaging. Google sounded its intentions two weeks ago when it purchased a small company called Gizmo5... [E]xperts are predicting that the Googlephone will be launched in the US early next year."<p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/11/27/2123243/-Google-Attack-On-the-Mobile-Market-Rumored?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/27/2123243"></a></p><p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/11/27/2123243/-Google-Attack-On-the-Mobile-Market-Rumored?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/8McC7lPHWJptNh0A2caAUDFesw8/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/8McC7lPHWJptNh0A2caAUDFesw8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/8McC7lPHWJptNh0A2caAUDFesw8/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/8McC7lPHWJptNh0A2caAUDFesw8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/Z5K37kpfzcA" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2009-11-27T23:35:00+00:00 google first-the-itablet-and-now-this mobile 212 212,206,159,123,31,16,11 http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/11/27/2123243/-Google-Attack-On-the-Mobile-Market-Rumored?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/iELyO1fqawI/New-Evidence-For-Ancient-Life-On-Mars siddesu writes in with "compelling" new data that chemical and fossil evidence of ancient microbial life on Mars was carried to Earth in a Martian meteorite. The finding is being highlighted by the same NASA team who made the initial discovery 13 years ago. Spaceflight Now has more details of the analysis.<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/27/2057233/New-Evidence-For-Ancient-Life-On-Mars?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/27/2057233"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/27/2057233/New-Evidence-For-Ancient-Life-On-Mars?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/NiefnPfX0lvjZ4Jk_iYfenEw7PM/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/NiefnPfX0lvjZ4Jk_iYfenEw7PM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/NiefnPfX0lvjZ4Jk_iYfenEw7PM/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/NiefnPfX0lvjZ4Jk_iYfenEw7PM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/iELyO1fqawI" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2009-11-27T22:52:00+00:00 mars martian-overlords science 137 137,128,104,77,25,17,11 http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/27/2057233/New-Evidence-For-Ancient-Life-On-Mars?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/mt6S8iI0rvo/In-AU-Film-Studios-Issue-Ultimatum-To-ISPs bennyboy64 writes "The Australian court case between the film industry and ISP iiNet drew to a close yesterday after the film studios issued an ultimatum: Take copyright responsibilities seriously or leave the industry. 'Businesses such as ISPs want to enjoy the benefit of being able to make money out of the provision of Internet service facilities and they enjoy that benefit. But it carries with it a responsibility,' said Tony Bannon SC, the film industry's lawyer. 'They provide a facility that is able to be used for copyright infringement purposes. If they don't like having to deal with copyright notices then they should get out of the business.' iTnews has done a short one minute interview with iiNet's CEO Michael Malone as he left the court on the final day. Also on the final day, the judge dismissed the Internet Industry Association's involvement in the case."<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/27/2035244/In-AU-Film-Studios-Issue-Ultimatum-To-ISPs?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/27/2035244"></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/27/2035244/In-AU-Film-Studios-Issue-Ultimatum-To-ISPs?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/R96Mh1P_FSh4OmK-u_iO5gs4JH0/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/R96Mh1P_FSh4OmK-u_iO5gs4JH0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/R96Mh1P_FSh4OmK-u_iO5gs4JH0/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/R96Mh1P_FSh4OmK-u_iO5gs4JH0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/mt6S8iI0rvo" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2009-11-27T22:11:00+00:00 court bluff-or-bluster-you-decide yro 183 183,174,139,113,35,22,13 http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/27/2035244/In-AU-Film-Studios-Issue-Ultimatum-To-ISPs?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/EXeIdX0IlAg/Cancer-Vaccine-That-Mimics-Lymph-Node SubComdTaco writes "Harvard has announced their approach towards an implantable cancer vaccine (press release here). To anyone familiar with how the immune system works, this appears to be a synthetic lymph node, an intriguing bit of biomimicry. From the Science Daily article: 'A cancer vaccine carried into the body on a carefully engineered, fingernail-sized implant is the first to successfully eliminate tumors in mammals, scientists recently reported in the journal Science Translational Medicine. The new approach, pioneered by bioengineers and immunologists at Harvard University, uses plastic disks impregnated with tumor-specific antigens and implanted under the skin to reprogram the mammalian immune system to attack tumors. The new paper describes the use of such implants to eradicate melanoma tumors in mice. ... The slender implants... are 8.5 millimeters in diameter and made of an FDA-approved biodegradable polymer. Ninety percent air, the disks are highly permeable to immune cells and release cytokines, powerful recruiters of immune-system messengers called dendritic cells. These cells enter an implant's pores, where they are exposed to antigens specific to the type of tumor being targeted. The dendritic cells then report to nearby lymph nodes, where they direct the immune system's T cells to hunt down and kill tumor cells.'"<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/27/2013256/Cancer-Vaccine-That-Mimics-Lymph-Node?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/27/2013256"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/27/2013256/Cancer-Vaccine-That-Mimics-Lymph-Node?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/PKB1130UsyTNZ4WezbzrXF378Kg/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/PKB1130UsyTNZ4WezbzrXF378Kg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/PKB1130UsyTNZ4WezbzrXF378Kg/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/PKB1130UsyTNZ4WezbzrXF378Kg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/EXeIdX0IlAg" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2009-11-27T21:30:00+00:00 medicine chipped-in-a-good-cause science 43 43,43,30,22,7,4,3 http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/27/2013256/Cancer-Vaccine-That-Mimics-Lymph-Node?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/B68pyOVBMfM/Home-Router-For-High-Speed-Connection soulprivate writes "My cable company has recently begun to offer Internet access plans with speeds over 30 Mbps (60, 80 and 100 Mbps). However my D-link router is unable to go beyond 30 Mbps if I use NAT; it reaches 60-70 Mbps only if NAT is disabled. Is there any recommendation for a brand/model of residential router that is able to get more than 70 Mbps with NAT enabled? I have been looking for benchmarks or comparisons, to no avail. Does anyone know one? What are your experiences at home?"<p><a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/11/27/1945237/Home-Router-For-High-Speed-Connection?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/27/1945237"></a></p><p><a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/11/27/1945237/Home-Router-For-High-Speed-Connection?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/OD-CAb378XJSPf-ba8vormeL_I0/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/OD-CAb378XJSPf-ba8vormeL_I0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/OD-CAb378XJSPf-ba8vormeL_I0/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/OD-CAb378XJSPf-ba8vormeL_I0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/B68pyOVBMfM" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2009-11-27T20:46:00+00:00 networking beyond-consumer-grade askslashdot 292 292,291,236,171,37,19,12 http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/11/27/1945237/Home-Router-For-High-Speed-Connection?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/vu7vxfFzAZ4/Engaging-With-Climate-Skeptics In the wake of the CRU "climategate" leak, reader Geoffrey.landis sends along a New York Times blog profile of Judith Curry, a climate scientist at Georgia Tech. "Curry &mdash; unlike many climate scientists &mdash; does not simply dismiss the arguments of 'climate skeptics,' but attempts to engage them in dialogue. She can, as well, be rather pointed in criticizing her colleagues, as in a post on the skeptic site climateaudit where she argues for greater transparency for climate data and calculations (mirrored here). In this post she makes a point that tribalism in science is the main culprit here &mdash;- that when scientists 'circle the wagons' to defend against what they perceive to be unfair (and unscientific) attacks, the result can be damaging to the actual science being defended. Is it still possible to conduct a dialogue, or is there no possible common ground?"<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/27/1811253/Engaging-With-Climate-Skeptics?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/27/1811253"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/27/1811253/Engaging-With-Climate-Skeptics?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/j5pb_D4-x7Na6dOiT8KqToLfQNY/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/j5pb_D4-x7Na6dOiT8KqToLfQNY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/j5pb_D4-x7Na6dOiT8KqToLfQNY/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/j5pb_D4-x7Na6dOiT8KqToLfQNY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/vu7vxfFzAZ4" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2009-11-27T20:02:00+00:00 earth fighting-polarization news 635 635,622,486,383,89,46,32 http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/27/1811253/Engaging-With-Climate-Skeptics?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/7viWlEDKXG8/Building-3D-Models-On-the-Fly-With-a-Webcam blee37 writes "Here is an excellent video demonstration of a new program developed by Qi Pan, a graduate student, and other researchers at the University of Cambridge. The 'ProFORMA' software constructs a 3D model of an object in real time from (commodity) webcam video. The user can watch the program deduce more pieces of the 3D model as the object is moved and rotated. The resulting graphics are of high quality."<p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/11/27/1851243/Building-3D-Models-On-the-Fly-With-a-Webcam?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/27/1851243"></a></p><p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/11/27/1851243/Building-3D-Models-On-the-Fly-With-a-Webcam?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Du2MrMgEATap9e4_bRTeAtwE7zo/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Du2MrMgEATap9e4_bRTeAtwE7zo/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Du2MrMgEATap9e4_bRTeAtwE7zo/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Du2MrMgEATap9e4_bRTeAtwE7zo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/7viWlEDKXG8" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2009-11-27T19:19:00+00:00 graphics do-you-see-what-i-see developers 82 82,77,54,43,8,3,1 http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/11/27/1851243/Building-3D-Models-On-the-Fly-With-a-Webcam?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/4M2tFYT29tM/Plasma-Device-Kills-Bacteria-On-Skin-In-Seconds Ponca City, We love you writes "In medicine, plasma, the fourth state of matter, is already used for sterilizing surgical instruments; plasma works at the atomic level and is able to reach all surfaces, even the interior of hollow needle ends. Now the BBC reports that researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics have demonstrated a plasma device that can rid hands, feet, or even underarms of bacteria, including the hospital superbug MRSA, by creating cold atmospheric plasma that produces a cocktail of chemicals that kills bacteria but is harmless to skin. 'The plasma produces a series of over 200 chemical reactions that involve the oxygen and nitrogen in air plus water vapor &mdash; there is a whole concoction of chemical species that can be lethal to bacteria,' says Gregor Morfill. 'It's actually similar to what our own immune system does.' The team says that an exposure to the plasma of only about 12 seconds reduces the incidence of bacteria, viruses, and fungi on hands by a factor of a million &mdash; a number that stands in sharp contrast to the several minutes hospital staff can take to wash using traditional soap and water. Morfill says that the approach can be used to kill the bacteria that lead to everything from gum disease to body odor and that the prototype is scalable to any size and can be produced in any shape."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/27/1646221/Plasma-Device-Kills-Bacteria-On-Skin-In-Seconds?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/27/1646221"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/27/1646221/Plasma-Device-Kills-Bacteria-On-Skin-In-Seconds?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/8y6sCgLpjhszFUGUyacqJIMZAdU/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/8y6sCgLpjhszFUGUyacqJIMZAdU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/8y6sCgLpjhszFUGUyacqJIMZAdU/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/8y6sCgLpjhszFUGUyacqJIMZAdU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/4M2tFYT29tM" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2009-11-27T18:39:00+00:00 medicine it's-a-dry-cold science 204 204,197,161,127,36,15,9 http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/27/1646221/Plasma-Device-Kills-Bacteria-On-Skin-In-Seconds?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/r6xdRB9Hwus/Facebook-Putting-Batteries-On-Board-Its-Servers 1sockchuck writes "The data center of the future may have no central UPS units, and be filled with servers with on-board batteries. Facebook says it will adopt a new power distribution design that shifts the UPS and battery backup functions from the data center into the cabinet by adding a 12-volt battery to each server power supply, an approach pioneered by Google. Facebook says the move will slash its power bill and save millions in capital expenses on UPS systems and PDUs. Facebook acknowledged that these types of custom designs are limited to large companies, but called on server vendors and data center builders to adapt their offerings to make them available to smaller companies."<p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/11/27/1612211/Facebook-Putting-Batteries-On-Board-Its-Servers?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/27/1612211"></a></p><p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/11/27/1612211/Facebook-Putting-Batteries-On-Board-Its-Servers?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/7Fo0OQQMShb6pfYT_x2qf1hVZoI/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/7Fo0OQQMShb6pfYT_x2qf1hVZoI/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/7Fo0OQQMShb6pfYT_x2qf1hVZoI/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/7Fo0OQQMShb6pfYT_x2qf1hVZoI/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/r6xdRB9Hwus" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2009-11-27T17:59:00+00:00 power following-where-the-big-boys-lead it 146 146,144,111,89,24,13,7 http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/11/27/1612211/Facebook-Putting-Batteries-On-Board-Its-Servers?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/D3jEfLBNb5s/Life-and-Work-On-the-LHC-At-CERN An anonymous reader sends in a CNet Crave interview with a working physicist at CERN. The interview is full of detail about what it's like to work in this geek paradise (if a bit dumbed-down for an audience assumed not very technical). Dr. Paul Jackson, a particle physicist working on the LHC's Atlas experiment, says there's no chance of black holes wiping us out, and that the time travel speculation is bunkum. He is 100% convinced that they will find the Higgs boson. The scientists there favor Macs, while computers in the control room are Linux-based. "What would happen if you were standing in front of the beam? You would die. It would be a pretty spectacular death, and you wouldn't know a lot about it. ... It would be the equivalent of having 87kg of TNT dumped into your body."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/27/1545259/Life-and-Work-On-the-LHC-At-CERN?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/27/1545259"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/27/1545259/Life-and-Work-On-the-LHC-At-CERN?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/2TCCf_I86W3gS0yPgK6i5SN7p0c/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/2TCCf_I86W3gS0yPgK6i5SN7p0c/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/2TCCf_I86W3gS0yPgK6i5SN7p0c/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/2TCCf_I86W3gS0yPgK6i5SN7p0c/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/D3jEfLBNb5s" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2009-11-27T17:14:00+00:00 science one-ordinary-day-with-teravolt-beams science 79 79,74,56,42,16,6,4 http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/27/1545259/Life-and-Work-On-the-LHC-At-CERN?from=rss Search Slashdot stories query http://slashdot.org/search.pl