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A robot that relaxes when shown kindness, and flinches at anger!

A robot that relaxes when shown kindness, and flinches at anger!London, July 30 : It has a beating heart, a breathing belly and appears to react emotionally to the way it is treated – no it is not a human being but a mechanical robot ‘with feelings’.

Scientists have developed Heart Robot, which relaxes when it is shown kindness and flinches at anger. 

Heart Robot has sensors that respond to movement, noise and touch. Cuddle him, and he seems to soak up the affection. His limbs become limp, his eyelids lower, his breathing relaxes, and his heart beat slows down.

Dell To Re-Enter MP3 Player Market

Dell has decided to come back to the MP3 player market.
Dell To Re-Enter MP3 Player Market
However, the company has not disclosed much information about its plans.

Several Dell functionaries said that the company has been creating a digital music player, which will hit market by September.

The company also said that the device would cost below $100.

Introducing the player together with an online download service and related software would be part of a plan that Dell Chief Executive Michael Dell hopes will take the company into a wider range of consumer markets than it has served earlier.

Toshiba To End Mobile Digital Satellite Broadcasting By March 2009

Toshiba Corporation is all set to end the mobile digital satellite Toshiba Corporationbr

Warp drive engine would travel faster than light

Warp drive engineWashington, July 29 : By manipulating extra dimensions with astronomical amounts of energy, two Baylor University physicists from the US, have outlined how a faster-than-light engine, or warp drive, could be created that would bend, but not break the laws of physics.

According to a report in Discovery News, the warp engine is based on a design first proposed in1994 by Michael Alcubierre.

The Alcubierre drive, as it’s known, involves expanding the fabric of space behind a ship into a bubble and shrinking space-time in front of the ship.

Sticky Martian soil foils Phoenix Lander’s first ice study

Sticky Martian soil foils Phoenix Lander’s first ice studyLondon, July 29 : The first attempt by NASA’s Phoenix Mars lander to quickly collect and analyze ice samples was foiled by sticky Martian soil that refused to budge from the collection scoop.

On July 26th, the robot drilled holes with a rasp on its robotic arm in a work trench known as “Snow White”.

Phoenix’s robotic arm then scooped up an icy soil sample and attempted to quickly transfer it to the onboard TEGA (Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer) instrument before the ice vaporised in the thin Martian air.

Blue light protein helps flies tune in with Earth''s field

Earth Magnetic FieldLondon, July 29 : Navigation in fruit flies has been attributed to a protein that detects blue light, which also helps fruit flies tune into the Earth''s magnetic field, revealed a new study.

The knowledge about this weak field is vital for explaining the homing and migration abilities of many animals.

It was believed that when struck by blue light, proteins known as cryptochromes detect magnetic fields, perhaps by making charged molecules - called free radicals.

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