links for 2008-04-25
April 25th, 2008 | photography
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China has surpassed the United States to become the world’s largest Internet-using population, reaching 221 million by the end of February, state media said on Thursday.
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“Russia plans to build an orbital plant for the production of spacecraft that are too big to build planetside, or are just too bulky to fire into orbit once built”
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Microsoft researchers are developing an armband worn on the forearm that recognises finger movements by monitoring muscle activity. They have called it MUCI, which stands for muscle-computer interface.
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found that the geomagnetism peaks matched up with peaks in the number of suicides in the northern Russian city of Kirovsk
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aggregator desktop app — looks better than most, needs a test drive
Th-that armband… are you telling me that Microsoft has developed a way for me to control my computer with my fingers!?!
What an astounding, futuristic wonderland this is!
Seems like someone hasn’t been following the Doktor closely enough…