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a WALL or a TV

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 Introducing ' the wall' by samsung. Television just got better.Typical flat-panel TVs are like big, rectangular quilts of pixels, locked into a consistent shape by manufacturing practices. Samsung built its Wall TV differently. The panels consist of clusters of individual MicroLEDs that tile together like puzzle pieces in whatever size and shape you want. An eight-foot TV in the shape of a Tetris piece? Your name spelled out in blocky text? You got it. The screens are rolling out to commercial customers like advertisers and retail stores, who want big, splashy displays. Since the sets will be out in the open, they're resistant to water, dust, and impact. This TV could cover an entire wall in a room there by presenting excellent entertainment experience.

Closer to the IRON MAN suit

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Jetpacks have come and gone over the years, usually stymied by short flight times and the sheer danger of strapping jet engines to the human body. With a design closer to Iron Man's suit than Flash Gordon's pack, Gravity Industries uses a trio of precisely controllable kerosene-powered microturbines—two of the breadloaf-sized engines on each hand and one on the back—to generate a stable "tripod" of thrust totaling 1,000 horsepower. The suit carries enough fuel to fly for up to 8 minutes. The body amour, weapon system, and on board A.I. of the actually suit is unrivaled in the actual world but this is a step closer to achieving feats of the fictional masterpeice.

Low Power RADAR

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There's a new hot cake in tracking systems. For such far-out drone missions as, say, autonomous cheeseburger delivery to become reality, we'll have to track the small, low-flying vehicles in the sky. Conventional radar coverage peters out if you dip much below 3,200 feet, which is where Raytheon's new Low Power Radar (also known as Skyler) comes in. The compact unit—less than one-meter-square—scans for objects using a radar system similar to those used in modern fighter jets. Networks of these devices set up on cell towers, buildings, and hills will be far cheaper than the large, moving radar dishes that now scan our airspace. At least no more of gigantic metal plates that span our country sides . Looks like a solid transition and we hope military around world buy into it.                                   

Journey to the Red Planet: Dream or Reality

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      Mars, (commonly known as the red planet), is the most probable planet after earth to sustain life. However, there are a lot of challenges we need to overcome in order to make a trip to this planet. Here are a few of them.      Considering discoveries made so far, the planet is known to contain water. The water is however in the form of ice as the atmospheric pressure of mars is less than 1% of ours here on earth. The amount of water on mars (as ice and hydroxyl ions) if converted, could cover the entire planet's surface to a depth of about 600 meters.      The atmosphere of Mars consists of about 96% carbon dioxide, 1.93% argon and 1.89% nitrogen along with traces of oxygen and water. The atmosphere is quite dusty, containing particulates about 1.5 µm in diameter which give the Martian sky a tawny color when seen from the surface. This is obviously not the kind of air we are used to inhaling, besides only a limited ...