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Magnetic resonance imaging in color?

Magnetic resonance imaging in color?Dumbest thing everConsidering existing dyes and imaging substances cause serious problems for the kidneys in many people, I'm not sure how pretty colors can be justified.

Tags: Document management, magnetic resonance imaging

Discussion threads 2008-06-23

Photos: MythBusters go under water

Can magnets control sharks' movements? During their Shark Week episode, the MythBusters will look into several commonly held ideas about the creatures. by CNET News.com

Tags: Magnet, Photograph, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-02-29

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nullFDISKFdisk will zero out the drive but there are means of recovering data from drives that have been erased that way. All it takes is time and money.Fdisk won't cut itSorry there but even using fdisk and a reformat will not make the data unrecoverable. You actually need to...

Tags: magnet, hard drive, eraser, FDISK, disk

Discussion threads 2007-11-12

Nanomagnetic sponges to clean artwork?

About a year ago, I told you that Italian scientists had developed the nanoscience of art restoration. Now, the same team from Florence has found a very innovative and gentle way 'for cleaning and conserving priceless oil paintings, marble sculptures and other works of art,' according to the American Chemical...

Tags: Magnet, Gel, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-09-05

Photos: Russian air show aims high

The MAKS 2007 event has lofty aspirations, but is it ready yet to surpass the Paris Air Show? For hard-core aviation fans, it may not matter.The distance between France and Russia is more than just half a continent. You can see it in everything from drink (wine vs. vodka) to...

Tags: Aerospace & Defense, Food & Beverage, photograph, MAKS 2007 event, MAKS 2007, Paris Air Show, aircraft, Russia, theorist, aerospace company, Salon, magnet, pride, resort, aspiration, defense contractor, jet, toilet, blockbuster, spectator, wine, continent, staff writer, aerospa

Image galleries 2007-08-23

Crazy purchase - Death magnet!

Crazy purchase - Death magnet!Magnets from hard drivesAre pretty darn strong. We use them in our shop for door stops. The doors are those huge steel doors that weight a ton, and the magnets, fastened securely on the ground onto the little bumpers that stop the door from opening too...

Tags: magnet

Discussion threads 2007-08-16

Crazy purchase - Death magnet!

I've been on the lookout for a really strong but compact magnet for some time now, so when I came across one called the DEATH MAGNET (yes, the name is capitalized like that) I just had to buy one.  This is a 2 inch x 2 inch x 1 inch neodymium...

Tags: Magnet, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2007-08-16

Turning cancer cells into nanomagnets

In its tomorrow issue, New Scientist reports that researchers at the University of New Mexico UNM had a brilliant idea to make bone-marrow biopsies more efficient for patients affected by leukemia. In "Nanoparticles that cancer cells can't resist," the magazine writes that the basic idea is to use magnetic iron...

Tags: Science &, Nature, Nanotechnology, Health &, Medicine, Engineering &, Innovation

Blog posts 2007-07-13

Circuitry (Cracking open a Maxtor hard drive)

Circuitry Cracking open a Maxtor hard driveFunnyOf the 12 or so drives I have taken apart, I have never mangled the read/write heads.Image 19. ShellNot much to the shell? Sorry, wrong. The shell may in fact be the most difficult piece to manufacture in quantilties. Consider this,...

Tags: hard drive, circuitry, PCB, underside, HDA, shell, magnet, Maxtor Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-04-27

MagCAD (zip)

MagCAD is a simple low-cost software tool for computation of spatial distribution of the magnetic field created by permanent magnets and electric coils at presence of nonlinear ferromagnetic materials in cylindrically symmetrical systems. The magnetic field is calculated by numerical solution of the equation for vector potential on a uniform...

Tags: Magnet, Field, MagCAD, Productivity

Software downloads 2007-04-27

MagnetMaker (exe)

MagnetMaker works with magnetic paper. Make fridge magnets quickly and easily, you can create high quality fridge magnets in minutes, enter your own designs logs and then simply print directly from your computer onto our high quality magnetic paper.

Tags: Magnet, Plastics

Software downloads 2007-03-22

Robots with square wheels?

Robots with square wheels?Why?It's an interesting project... but if you have enough power to spin that arm, why wouldn't you just apply it to the wheels instead?Holy GrailIf that actually works, then a kid has come up with the single most important scientific discovery in history.The implications are enormous.Forget moving...

Tags: Robots, pole, magnet, robot, motor

Discussion threads 2005-12-05

Plastic magnet breaks the mold

Plastic magnet breaks the moldtetracyanoquinodimethaneSay that three times fast after a bucket of margaritas.Can we get that in a superconductor model?I'm still waiting for a viable room-temperature superconductor. What happened to all the superconductor research that we had only a few years ago?just try...Try typing 3 times real fast without...

Tags: magnet

Discussion threads 2004-09-01

Case Study: TRIZ Solves a Hard Drive Reliability Problem

TRIZ is the Russian acronym for The Theory of Inventive Problem Solving. TRIZ is a unique knowledge-based technology for accelerated development of design concepts. The drive needs to be protected against stronger external force. This could be achieved by replacing the current latch magnet with a stronger one. But the...

Tags: Hard Drive, Magnet, TRIZ, TRIZ Methodology

Case studies

Additional Resources

Toshiba Satellite L305-S5875

Editors' note: This review is part of our Back-to-School 2008 roundup, covering specific configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores.The Toshiba Satellite L305-S5875 is a thoroughly average, entry-level laptop. It wasn't too long ago that an average, entry-level laptop meant one that was underpowered and shabbily...

Tags: Notebooks, Toshiba Corp., Toshiba Satellite, Toshiba Satellite L305-S5875, laptop computer

Product reviews 2008-07-23

Ego Cup

With many states recently passing hands-free laws banning the use of handsets while driving, we're seeing a flood of new Bluetooth devices into what is already a pretty crowded market. The Funkwerk Ego Cup is one such device, promising clear calls without fear of a citation. It stands apart from...

Tags: Cellular phones, Ego Cup, cup-holder

Product reviews 2008-07-23

Mobile software Monday: My top 10 iPhone applications

Mobile software Monday: My top 10 iPhone applicationsFYI on eReaderFYI, I was at WWDC and I asked 4 people at apple about distributing books like eReader is doing where you buy them from eReader and then download them. I found at that this goes against the third party agreement...

Tags: E-books, Desktops, Sound-Off, eReader, Mobile software Monday, iPhone application, Apple iPhone, mobile

Discussion threads 2008-07-14

FrostWire (dmg)

FrostWire is a fork of the very popular LimeWire PRO Gnutella/Bittorrent client. The purpose of FrostWire is to keep and maintain the freedoms that LimeWire LLC may be forced to withdraw. Share any type of file on Gnutella and the Bittorrent network.Version 4.17 iproves Bittorrent and Magnet links support.

Tags: LimeWire, BitTorrent, FrostWire

Software downloads 2008-07-11

A time and need for service innovation, education

The vision behind Service Science is to build a coherent body of knowledge for service innovation, says IBM's Jim Spohrer. Commentary--Services make the world go around. In modern day society, we are all connected to each other by either giving or receiving a service. ...

Tags: services, IBM

News items 2008-07-10

BenQ V2400W

The BenQ V2400W is the fourth 24-inch LCD we've reviewed this year and the third we'd recommend. The $600

Tags: BenQ Corp.

Product reviews 2008-07-01