Web access? Go to
library
Some people go
to the library to borrow books, but others go to the Library
daily to do business. The library limits users to one hour a
day due to a limited number of computers.
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Ancient Mechanical Device
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calculated the heavens
The Antikythera Mechanism, which dates to about 100 B.C., is
believed to have been created by the Greeks to track the
lunar and solar cycles.
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Holdings, Inc. announced that the U.S. Patent Office has
issued a patent protecting the design of its future
mouse product, including the grip-less and wrist
untwisted design.
Computers Will Enable People To Live Forever
The inventor, author, and futurist Ray Kurzweil predicts
that in 15 to 30 years, nanobots will roam our blood streams
fixing diseased or aging organs, computers will back up our
human memories, and conference calls will be replaced by
meetings in virtual resorts.
Electricity broadcast through the air may someday run your
home.
The idea was conceived by Marin Soljacic, an assistant
professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT). A metaphorical light bulb lit up over his
head in the middle of the night, he says, when a beeping cell
phone woke him because it needed recharging. Why, he wondered,
couldn't a cell phone - or his four Roomba robotic vacuum
cleaners, for that matter - be constantly recharged
wirelessly?
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