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Archive for February, 2010
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010Kite festival attracts high flyers
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
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The blustery Sydney beach provided ideal conditions, with some first-time fliers joining in the fun alongside expert Australian Kitefliers Society members, many of whom design their own
Kite season is back | The Jakarta Post
Monday, February 22nd, 2010
Kite season is back: Around 6,000 kites adorn the sky of Segara Manggar Beach in Balikpapan, East Kalimantan, during Borneo's International Kite festival, on Sunday. The festival, held to celebrate Balikpapan's 113th anniversary, aims to break a Guinness World Record
Zero Energy Construction: Underwater Kite Harnesses Ocean Energy
Thursday, February 18th, 2010
A completely new concept of underwater wave energy using a simple 7 ton kite turbine design has been developed by Minesto; which is a spinoff from the Swedish military and aircraft design firm Saab. The Deep Green underwater turbine captures the power of the ocean just like a kite in wind.
via Zero Energy Construction: Underwater Kite Harnesses Ocean Energy.
GlobeGazette.com
Thursday, February 18th, 2010
The ninth annual event will run from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 20, at the Sea Wall in downtown Clear Lake.
via GlobeGazette.com.
The MathWorks releases new software update
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010Matlab and Image Processing Toolbox now offer more multi-threaded implementations of functions, and Statistics Toolbox adds parallel computing support for several functions.
Red Bull Illume - Image Quest 2010
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Color the Wind 2009
Sunday, February 14th, 20109th Annual Color the Wind Kite Festival
Clear Lake, Iowa–Downtown Seawall
Saturday, February 20, 2010
11 am to 4 pm
via Color the Wind 2009.
Using Lasers to Zap Mosquitoes – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com
Sunday, February 14th, 2010
Nathan Myhrvold, Microsoft’s former chief technology officer, thinks so. His company, Intellectual Ventures, has assembled commonly available technology — parts used in printers, digital cameras and projectors — to make rapid lasers to shoot down mosquitoes in mid-flight. If bed nets are the low-tech solution to combat the deadly disease — caused by a parasite transmitted when certain mosquitoes bite people — the laser is a high-tech one.
via Using Lasers to Zap Mosquitoes – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com.
Astronomers release stunning view of Orion Nebula – Science Fair: Science and Space News – USATODAY.com
Thursday, February 11th, 2010
The European Southern Observatory consortium's Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) in Paranal, Chile released the view of young stars in the Orion Nebula to demonstrate the compatibilities of the new telescope's 13.5-foot-wide mirror.