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TechRevu 04/12/04 NY Auto Show - Concept Car Gallery: Silver two seaters take center stage at the New York
International Auto Show as manufacturers rediscover sports cars, station wagons and personal transport vehicles. All are cool, some may even become real cars someday.
TechRevu 04/09/02 NY Auto Show: Spring and new cars come to the big apple at this time of year. Automotive Columnist Steve Sawicki and
Editor Ernest Lilley take a test drive around the show floor kicking the tires on endless
silver concept cars and wishing we could test drive them all…
TechRevu 04/11/04 HP 7960 - ProSumer Printer for Digital Darkrooms: Now rated at
a 115 year archival print life, and capable of stunning grayscale printing, my preliminary finding is that this is indeed a pro-quality printer at consumer prices, bringing the pro-sumer gallery quality printing to anyone really serious about their photography.
NASA TV 04/12/04 Kazakhstan ISS launch Sunday: NASA Television has scheduled coverage of Sunday's launch from Kazakhstan of Expedition 9, the new crew for the International Space Station, which includes
American astronaut Mike Fincke. You can watch the launch from the NASA TV website
(see link) starting 9 a.m. Sunday with a taped, pre-launch news conference from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Launch coverage bedings at10:30 a.m. with coverage of the launch, scheduled for 11:19 a.m.
MSNBC 04/09/04 SpaceShipOne flies again; X Prize plans announcement: Last week was a landmark for private spaceflight, not because Burt Rutan's Spaceship One rocket plane made it's second faster-than-sound flight, though that didn't hurt. It was the first time ever that the FAA, in the person of its Commercial Space Transportation Office has ever issued a "suborbital manned rocket flights,"
making Rutan's company the first ever to be eligible for space traffic
tickets.
CNN 04/12/04 Robot Therapy - Japanese scientists study robots and the elderly: Elderly patients
suffering from dementia delight in a robotic dog visitor. Though scientists long thought that making robots lifelike would scare people, it seems that they can be made to comfort them as well. Robotics will play a large role in dealing with an aging population.
DP Review 04/08/04 Rebel in Black: DP Review reports that Canon is bringing out a black body version of the Digital Rebel, probably to compete with the all black look of the Nikon D70. Originally, we assume they used the silver to differentiate the camera from it's pro models, but it certainly looks better in black. Though it will be available in Japan, there's no word yet on a US release.
Reuters 04/05/04 Sicilian Blazes Put Science to the Test: The Italian town of Cannetto looks like something out of an X-Files episode after scientists have been baffled trying to explain a series of mysterious electrical fires which started this January. The power company cut electricity to the town and hooked it to a generator, which also caught fire. The town has been evacuated, except for the scientists and firefighters that roam the streets, shaking their heads.
(image: Reuters)
MSNBC 04/11/04 Mars on 3 Million Dollars A Day: IF you divide its annual budget by the number of days in a year, you'll find that it costs about $3M a day to keep a red planet rover roving. Hopefully we're getting more than entertainment out of that budget, but maybe it helps to remember that the world's highest paid baseball player makes almost as much…
Car&Driver April 2004 2004 New York International Auto Show: After you've read our coverage of the NYIAS, you might want to check out Car&Driver's as well. You can also listen to Editor Tony Swan hold forth on the rediscovery of the passenger car market and his continued bafflement at America's love affair with trucks. Whatever the reason Tony, it isn't cause they're fun to drive…
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