Panama Canal

Panama Canal

Expanded Panama Canal Sparks Race To Be Ready For Bigger 
Cargo Ships --Washington Post

PANAMA CITY — This is a story around large, and how solitary of the biggest construction projects in the globe, the remaking of the Panama Canal, will give permission larger boats sail into deeper harbors, wherever establishment are expenses billions dredging channels, blasting tunnels and selling cranes from figurines the size of 14-story buildings to accommodate super-sized freight.

All this might bash a link of dollars sour the set a price of a smartphone shipped from Shanghai — or alleviate poverty in Panama, wherever the government campaign to nominate a destiny in tolls — or create a windfall representing the ports quick to receive the large ships, such as persons in Baltimore and Norfolk.  
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My Comment: Panama has certainly come a long way from the days of having narco thugs like Manuel Noriega running the country.

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GravityLight: Lighting

The GRAVITY-Powered Lamp That Could Bring 1.5billion People Out Of The Darkness -- Daily Mail 

* The GravityLight uses a sand-filled sack to yank a rope through a tiny generator to power an LED light

 * It's makers retrieve a single yank can keep the light departing representing up to 30 minutes

 * They hope to distribute 1,000 open to underprivileged communities in India and Africa

A British company hopes to bring stimulating light to 1.5billion fill with who live sour the grid with an incredible stimulating light to facilitate is powered by gravity.

The GravityLight uses a sack of sand to increasingly yank a case of rope through a dynamo means which generates electricity to power an LED light.

A three-second yank on the rope to raise the sack will keep the LED bulb running representing up to 30 minutes, its makers retrieve.

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My Comment: This is just the first generation prototype .... I can only imagine what subsequent innovations will bring.

New Rifle Technology

Smart' hunting rifle makes up for jittery aim 

Using state of the art digital range finders and a very smart trigger, the TrackingPoint rifle can make a sharpshooter out of anyone, including NBCNews.com's Wilson Rothman. 

Futuristic Rifle Turns Novice Into Sharpshooter -- NBC 

It all goes back to "Top Gun." during the heads-up exhibit on Maverick's Tomcat, you can distinguish a notebook compensate representing person purpose with precision laser guidance and prudent calculations. How long or to facilitate knowledge made its way to to a conformist hunting search through? It's now promptly, with a set a price tag of $17,000 to $21,000.

We came to Las Vegas the chief week of January, the way we until the end of time look after, representing the Consumer Electronics Show. The vast trade fair skin tone larger than 3,300 exhibitors, and covers 1.9 million clear feet. But at hand are rejection shooting ranges next to CES. To check improbable TrackingPoint, we had to drive improbable to the hills outside of town. 

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My Comment: Great for snipers and soldiers in a combat zone. Great for hunters who do not want to hunt. One more worry for the US Secret Service.

The PaperTab Tablet Will Look And Feel Just Like A Sheet Of Paper

Photo: PaperTab (credit: Plastic Logic/Queen’s University)

 A Paper-Thin Flexible Tablet Computer -- Kurzweilai

A flexible paper notebook industrial next to Queen’s University in collaboration with Plastic Logic and Intel Labs can solitary generation modernize the way fill with handiwork with pills and computers. The PaperTab tablet looks and feels truly like a sheet of paper.

However, it is fully interactive with a flexible, high-resolution 10.7” plastic exhibit industrial by Plastic Logic, a flexible touchscreen, and powered by the support generation Intel Core i5 Processor. Instead of using several apps or windows on a single exhibit, users own ten or more interactive displays or “PaperTabs”: Solitary for every app in consume.

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My Comment: I prefer something more solid in my hands .... but I am probably an exception to this rule.