Curious and Useful Things

New definition of adorable:

'Elke' the four-day-old hand raised Francois Leaf-Monkey is shown for the first time at Taronga Zoo in Sydney. The Leaf-Monkeys native habitat is Northeast Vietnam and Southeast China.

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The Story of the Kitten and the Bird. Capturing them must have been pure joy for this photographer.

 

 
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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
   - 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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Torbay 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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