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Delft Ceramic Style Cross-Stitch Mantle Clock

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2008-07-06 13:56:19 by bohus in Retro Thing
...Delft porcelain clock that some folks have on their mantles. Delft porcelain is a Dutch specialty - blazing white porcelain with art brushed on in a deep blue. Clearly this is what the above craft project is meant to evoke... but in cross-stitch! This is such a weird collision of ideas that I just don't know how to feel When I think of...
 
Tags: cross-stitch, mantle clock, delft porcelain, grandfather clocks, kleenex box covers, church craft fairs, crazy mechanical stuff, clocks, unusual brand
 
 
 
 
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Walking Robot Flame is the most advanced if its kind

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2008-05-23 11:59:38 by HASH0x8b63ad0 in Newlaunches.com
...Delft has developed this energy-efficient and highly stable bot. Taking departure from the usual norm used while constructing industrial robots Hobbelen uses TU Delft pioneering method of construction robots based on the way humans walk. PhD student Daan's breakthrough came when he invented a suitable method for measuring the stability of the...
 
Tags: flame, phd student daan, highly stable bot, daan, highly, construction robots based, delft, method, suitable method
 
 
 
 
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Soaring Spybot RoboSwift Mocks Real Birds (and Pays the Price) [Robots]

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2008-03-06 09:25:00 by Wilson Rothman in Gizmodo
...Delft University of Technology, is among the first flying machines with a "morphing" wing sweep. As you'll see in the video below, its wings reduce in surface area when pulled back to limit drag, the way the wings of actual fast-flying swifts do. Unlike the real birds, however, the RoboSwift is designed to spy on you Inside its small body...
 
Tags: roboswift, birds, real birds, wings, delft, delft university, low-resolution wireless camera, wings reduce, crime scenes
 
 
 
 
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Czeers MK1 Solar Speed Boat

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2008-05-25 15:25:47 by max in zedomax.com
...Delft Technical University Solarboat Team built the original platform as an entry in the 2006 Nuon Frisian Solar challenge, which it easily won - and in the process, attracted serious investment power from Rabobank to get a full scale test boat built via gizmodo gizmag Video after the jump Download latest version of Flash to view...
 
Tags: solar, mk1, solar cells, solar challenge, solar speed boat, speed boat, solar power, czeers mk1, czeers mk1 prototype
 
 
 
 
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Giving Carbon Nanotubes a Gift of Biosensing

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2008-01-18 18:57:14 by Michael in Medgadget
...Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands to use individual carbon nanotubes (CNTs) as nanoscale biosensors, with a potential to detect the presence of just a single molecule. What Iddo Heller, a PhD student, and colleagues discovered was a hitherto unrecognized sensing mechanism From Nanowerk : Since the discovery that individual...
 
Tags: carbon nanotubes, individual carbon nanotubes, potential, gate-potential dependence, mechanism, specific control experiments, experiments, single-molecule sensitivity, nanoscale biosensors
 
 
 
 
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Mininova to Launch BitTorrent Video Streaming

2008-03-20 17:34:43 by Dave in Forever Geek
 
...Delft and Free University Amsterdam. Tribler is also working together with the BBC and several other European broadcasters, and they recently received a $22 million grant for P2P research from the European Union For people using in-house video streaming technology, this could help alleviate some of the bandwidth costs, and hopefully still...
 
Tags: video, material video, stream, quality video stream, in-house video, bittorrent, tribler team, application service, service
 
 
 
 
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Centrifuges Recruited in Study of Space Sickness

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2008-05-22 17:43:03 by Michael in Medgadget
...Delft University of Technology in Holland, has been studying the causes of space sickness, or Space Adaptation Syndrome (SAS), that impacts many of the astronauts in their initial days in orbit. Interestingly, SAS symptoms can even be experienced after lengthy exposure to high gravitational forces in a human centrifuge, as is used for...
 
Tags: space sickness, space, sickness, otolith asymmetry hypothesis, asymmetry, otolith, non-sensitive, sensitive, sensitive otolith
 
 
 
 
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Flame is the world's most advanced -- and Dutch -- walking robot

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2008-05-22 19:31:00 by Joshua Fruhlinger in Engadget
...Delft PhD student Daan Hobbelen is what we like to call a mega breakthrough. By mimicking the way that humans actually fall forward when walking, this robot comes insanely close to the real thing. Usually, walking robots are energy-hungry propositions , but this is the first that's both efficient and stable. Inside Flame are seven motors and...
 
Tags: flame, robot, inside flame, robots, world, insanely close, efficient, mega breakthrough, energy-hungry propositions
 
 
 
 
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Flame Walking Robot

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2008-05-23 03:15:42 by posted by Pantha in
...Delft came up with a new, highly-advanced walking robot known as Flame. This robot is not meant for commercial but research purposes, providing insight into how people walk so that those suffering from walking difficulties will be able to be assisted through improved diagnoses, training as well as rehabilitation equipment. Flame is smart...
 
Tags: robot, flame, flame robot, wimpy asimo, asimo, rehabilitation equipment, lost kid, honda, climb stairs
 
 
 
 
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Flame Walking Robot

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2008-05-22 19:15:42 by Editor in Ubergizmo