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Solar-Powered Plane Stays Aloft for 26 Hours - NYTimes.com

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PARIS — Slender as a stick insect, a solar-powered experimental airplane with a huge wingspan completed its first test flight of more than 24 hours on Thursday, powered overnight by energy collected from the sun during a day aloft over Switzerland.
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Adventurer leaves NY career to walk across US

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Green, a 30-year-old Virginia native, began his walk in late March at Rockaway Beach, a seaside neighborhood just south of New York's Kennedy Airport. The goal: Make it to Rockaway Beach, Ore., just over 3,000 miles to the west. By air, the trip takes a little more than six hours. Green figures it will take him about six months. He started planning more than a year ago, saving money by living frugally and designing a rolling cart to carry his tent, sleeping bag and the fewest supplies possible.
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Toy engineer uses his talent to help hurt people with guns

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The weapon's effectiveness has been tested on blocks of gelatin that simulate human flesh; the projectiles hit with considerable force, but do not penetrate. The weapon is geared to meet the military requirement for an impact energy of 30 joules. This is similar to existing nonlethal weapons; paintball guns are limited to 12 joules. Lund says they have not yet carried out human tests but he suggests it will produce the pain of a severe wasp sting.
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Mattel to launch computer engineer Barbie this fall

And voila, there is Barbie, sporting black leggings, pink glasses and a tailored vest over a T-shirt decorated with computer code — a string of 0s and 1s that, when translated, spells "Barbie." The Wall Street Journal declared Barbie was "getting her geek on." And Shanahan and the society are a big reason why. Shanahan and her marketing director, Brian Knier, blasted an e-mail to the society's 20,000 members, asking them to vote online at Barbie.com for the next "I Can Be …" career doll. Computer engineer Barbie quickly overtook anchorwoman, environmentalist, surgeon and architect Barbie during four weeks of voting.
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Barbie's new career by popular vote: Computer Engineer

But that’s not all! Consumers loudly campaigned for another Barbie® career. The winner of the popular vote is Computer Engineer. Computer Engineer Barbie®, debuting in Winter 2010, inspires a new generation of girls to explore this important high-tech industry, which continues to grow and need future female leaders.
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Neato introduces the $399 Roomba Killer - how will it do?

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The Roomba is the reigning champ of the vacuum robot industry. iRobot has sold more than 5 million units in the last seven years and they show no sign of stopping. For those who have never watched one in action, the Roomba doesn’t see where it’s going, it just bumps into things.
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Researcher Creates Strongest Metal Foam Ever

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pongy metal sounds like a bit of an oxymoron, but it’s actually a real material that is capable of absorbing large impacts without damage. Metal foams have been around for some time, but new research by Dr. Afsaneh Rabiei of North Carolina State University, has revealed the strongest metal foam ever. It can compress up to 80% of its original size under loading and still retain its original shape. The applications for this type of material are too numerous to fathom, but one of the most anticipated uses for the spongy metal is in automobiles to lessen the impact of crashes and protect the driver and passengers.
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The NASA Puffin: a one man electric helicopter/plane

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A super-quiet, hover-capable aircraft design, NASA's experimental one-man Puffin could show just how much electric propulsion can transform our ideas of flight. It looks like nothing less than a flying suit or a jet pack with a cockpit.
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Lonely AI engineer invents high tech sex doll

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''She can't vacuum, she can't cook, but she can do almost anything else if you know what I mean,'' said her inventor, Douglas Hines, of the company TrueCompanion.
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Transparent toaster sees end of burnt toast

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Engineers have spent 15 years perfecting the £160 Magimix Vision Toaster, which has double insulated clear glass on both sides giving a panoramic view of each slice as it cooks.
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Negligence ruling in Katrina floods may cost feds billions

NEW ORLEANS – The federal government could be vulnerable to billions of dollars in claims after a judge ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers' failure to properly maintain a navigation channel led to massive flooding in Hurricane Katrina.
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Crazy Or Brilliant? Plan To Build Giant Floating Airport

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San Diego desperately needs a new airport. It has needed one for years. The existing facility, San Diego International, is crowded onto a puny 675 acre parcel. That’s a lovely size for a horse farm, but it’s infinitesimal for an airport serving a metropolitan area of 3 million people. All of San Diego shares a single runway–the busiest in the country and also one of the most dangerous.
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