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Entries from December 2007

Iranian inventor has created a speaking book

Iranian inventor Ramin Sedigi has invented a speaking book – a lightweight electronic device which is able to say words and even to describe the images at a contact with stylus, informs Iranian agency ISNA.
The device is equipped with 512 MB of internal memory, an audio-output, and also SD-slot, which allows to contain up to […]

Categories: Inventions

Chinese have produced the most high-speed train in the world

This train’s speed-limit is 300 km/hour, informs agency Sinhua.
It is known, that the weight of each car made from an aluminium alloy is approximately 7 tons. The train has been independently developed by the Chinese experts on the basis of generalization of the foreign pilot production of trains with speed-limit in 200 km/hour.
It is […]

Categories: General · Inventions

China has come out on top in terms of connections to the broadband Internet

China has come out on top in the world by amount of the connected subscribers to the broadband Internet, transfers agency Xinhua referring to words of the computer science deputy minister Jiang Yaoping.
122 million people, living in China, have broadband access to the Internet, which is the biggest index in the world.
It is necessary to […]

Categories: Internet

In January Tata Motors will present the cheapest car in the world

In January, 2008 during Auto Expo show Indian motor-car manufacturer Tata Motors will present the vehicle for 2500 dollars.
According to experts, the price for the automobile can increase at the most up to 3000 dollars only because of expensive raw materials.
Production of the given model will start not earlier than the middle of 2008. […]

Categories: General · Inventions

Germans are the most active buyers of lunar sites

The most part of Moon’s territory belongs to Europeans, leaders among which are German citizens, informs Reuters.
Swedes, Englishmen and Poles follow the most active buyers of lunar sites.
It is necessary to note that such statistics can change precisely the same as change the prices for Moon sites. In fact from the beginning of […]

Categories: General · Space

The Israeli scientists have created nano-Bible

Group of the Israeli scientists has created nano-technological Bible which needs only 0,5 square millimeters, informs site KURSOR referring to newspaper Ma’ariv.
Scientists have managed to place on such a tiny area the text of the TANAKH - the Old Testament of the Bible. And now to read it, one should use a microscope.
Work of the […]

Categories: General · Inventions · Physics

Intel has created the tiniest store in the world

Corporation Intel has created the smallest solid-state storage device in the world - Z-P140, which weight makes hardly more half of a gram, informs edition Ubergizmo.
The sizes of a novelty make 12 x 18 x 1,39 millimeters and do not exceed the sizes of 1-cent coin. Now Z-P140 can contain 2 GB, though developers are […]

Categories: General · Inventions

Google creates a new online encyclopedia

Google has declared development of own online encyclopedia. Founders of the new project assert that it will rival popular Internet-encyclopedia Wikipedia.
Google’s management has already charged a number of experts with preparation of the first materials for the encyclopedia.
Incomes from the advertising placed on pages of the encyclopedia Google’s management is going to share […]

Categories: Internet

Inhabitants of the Earth can watch star shower Heminid

On December, 13 and 14 inhabitants of the entire world can watch the next space phenomenon - star shower Heminid. It is expected, that the best visibility of the stream will be in northern latitudes of the planet.
Experts tell, that star shower Heminid is one of the most mysterious and bright star showers which is […]

Categories: Space

Rate of human evolution has sped up hundred times

The group of American scientists during the research has proved that evolution of the person passes now approximately hundred times faster, than in the past.
Scientists explain such acceleration of evolution by fast growth of population, and also that modern inhabitants of the planet have to quickly adapt for new conditions of habitation.
According to researchers, […]

Categories: General