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Even air bubbles can be amnesic

When scientists do experiments, they obviously pay attention to the initial conditions involved. But in experiments on how fluids break up from underwater nozzles, physicists from the University of Chicago have discovered that the initial conditions didnt matter. Its even appropriate to talk about amnesia of air bubbles. As they...

Tags: nozzle, University of Chicago

Blog posts 2006-10-06

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Firefighter's Calculator (Mobile)

Firefighter's handy pocket calculator with reference sheets, made on request for firefighters who carry BlackBerries.Calculate water flow and total water supply needed.Calculate friction loss for nozzle and hose.Calculate required pump pressure for desired nozzle pressure at specified elevation, with specified nozzle friction factor, hose diameter, and length.Calculate nozzle pressure vs....

Tags: Firefighter, Mobile, lsPhone, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-11-14

Fireground Calculator for iPhone 1.1 (Mobile)

Fireground Calculator for iPhone can rapidly provide calculations, confirm your estimates, and help you practice your skills, in a fun, and simplified instrument created for fire-fighters. Taking out the guesswork, you can calculate the optimum pound per square inch in just seconds. Start by choosing either a landline, or master...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Training, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Smart Phones, Human Resources, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-03

Xerox: Gel ink will be the future

There may come a day when we're buying a tube of ink gel for our printers. Xerox on Thursday said it is previewing what it calls a "cured gel ink technology" that prints on plastic and foil. Xerox's plan is to take digital printers to the packaging...

Tags: Xerox Corp., Paper, Image Quality, Inkjet Printer, Ink, Gel, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-29

Lexmark Z2420

The Lexmark Z2420 inkjet photo printer is a refresher to last year's Z1420, and after all our tests are said and done, we're not sure what prompted the update--the Z2420 appears to be of the same build, print speed, and output quality as its predecessor. Sure, the printer is relatively...

Tags: Printers, Wireless LANs, Lexmark Z2420, Lexmark International Inc., printer

Product reviews 2008-05-16

They died for Reddi-Wip?

Jon Edwards often manages what appears impossible. He has recovered precious data from computers wrecked in floods and fires and dumped in lakes. Now Edwards may have set a new standard: He found information on a melted disk drive that fell from the sky when space shuttle Columbia...

Tags: Disk, Disk Drive, Foam, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-05-11

HP Officejet J6480

The Officejet J6480 is Hewlett-Packard's newest all-in-one printer with a host of features designed to appeal to small-to-midsize businesses that want a low-cost, feature-rich device capable of handling projects across the board. This $200 multifunction printer certainly delivers everything you want in an AIO: Autoduplexing, photo finishing, one-touch faxing, a...

Tags: Printers, Fax, Officejet J6480, printer, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Product reviews 2008-05-08

(Photos: Missile shoots down falling satellite)

(Photos: Missile shoots down falling satellite)safely ignited in space?How did toxic fuel get safely ignited in space? Space is a vacuum with no oxygen to enable combustion.RE: (Photos: Missile shoots down falling satellite)Just wondering, can anyone explain to me how spaceship/satelite propels itself in space when there is nothing...

Tags: combustion, missile, oxygen, satellite, photograph

Discussion threads 2008-02-21

Simulating planes flying at Mach 6

Scramjets, or supersonic combustion ramjets, such as the X-51A aircraft being built by Pratt & Whitney and Boeing, should start to fly in 2009. And if everything goes according to plan, missiles flying at Mach 6 could be deployed by 2015. But designing such planes is not so easy. This...

Tags: Purdue University, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-01-04

Must health care innovation be expensive?

Much of what passes for innovation in health care is expensive. Frightfully so.But it doesn't have to be that way, as winners of the recent Index design awards make clear.One of the favorite winners is called the AntiVirus.  It's simply a plastic top for a soft drink can with a...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Leadership, Dana Blankenhorn, health care, innovation

Blog posts 2007-08-30

A robot that paints like Jackson Pollock

According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, computer scientists at the Washington University in Saint-Louis WUSTL have built a robot that makes drip paintings like Jackson Pollocks -- who was also known as "Jack the Dripper." The robot, dubbed Action Jackson, can finish an artwork in just minutes, like Jackson Pollock...

Tags: Robots, Action Jackson, robot

Blog posts 2007-03-23

MIT engine boosts mileage by 30 percent

MIT engine boosts mileage by 30 percentHow many people ...... will want to fill up twice in one stop? And what would happen if someone fills up with gas and not ethanol too? Would the lack of ethanol to suppress combustion cause the engine irreparable harm? I...

Tags: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Discussion threads 2006-10-25

An antimatter spaceship for Mars?

If you're a science fiction reader, you know that spaceships are using antimatter to travel through space. Now NASA is working on such a spaceship to go to Mars in 45 days using only 10 milligrams of anti-electrons -- or positrons -- for the round trip mission. These positrons will...

Tags: Mars, spaceship

Blog posts 2006-04-19

HP Photosmart Pro B9180

After the resounding silence that met the Photosmart 8750, its first foray into the enthusiast/pro photo-printer space, HP valiantly tries again, this time having learned from its past mistakes. The HP Photosmart Pro B9180 uses a new set of eight pigment-based Vivera inks with preliminary 200-plus-year fade-resistance ratings (on select...

Tags: Printers, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP Photosmart Pro B9180, printer, HP Photosmart

Product reviews 2006-03-06

Gas Dynamics 1.1 (Windows)

This program calculates thermodynamic and transport properties of gaseous, liquid and solid species (TP, HP and SP), according to U.S. customary and International units. The user can analyze power cycles Carnot and Brayton, power cycle components and processes (compression, combustion and expansion) and compressible flow (velocity of sound, Mach number,...

Tags: Property, Engineering Software, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2005-11-02

EngCalc (Hydraulic) - Windows Mobile Calculator Software (Mobile)

Calculations & Conversions at your finger tips.Momentous Engineering formulas catering to Hydrualic Engineering. A must have for Hydrualic Engineers. Empower yourself with instant references and solutions of frequently encountered calculation at your finger tips. Just few taps, and all the calculations that consumed lots of efforts and time will vanish,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Unit, Microsoft Windows, Sharp Corp., 3GR Technologies, Empty, Cyl, Advertising & Promotion, Mobile Operating Systems, Investment, Operating Systems, Marketing, Finance, Software

Software downloads 2005-10-13

Google faces obstacles in S.F. Wi-Fi bid

Google faces obstacles in S.F. Wi-Fi bidAbuseThis is nothing more than an abuse of the system by the telco's and cable providers. They actively seek to abuse the courts and bribe legislators in order to provide them with a market. It seems to me that if municipalities choose to offer...

Tags: Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telecom & Utilities, Network technology, Google Inc., Wi-Fi, radio, telecommunications company

Discussion threads 2005-10-03

Canon MP830 11.2.0.0 (Windows)

Canon MP830: MP830 Office All-In-One delivers spectacular performance for the home and small office. It produces an amazing print resolution of up to 9600 x 2400 color dpi1, for superb detail and clarity. To achieve this, Canon Full-photolithography Inkjet Nozzle Engineering FINE uses a next-generation 3,584-nozzle print head that ejects...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Photograph, Canon Inc.

Software downloads 2005-08-01

Canon MP800R 11.2.0.0 (Windows)

Canon MP800R: The PIXMA MP800R Photo All-In-One offers the freedom of wireless printing and scanning, along with exceptional print-copy-scan performance. It produces an amazing print resolution of up to 9600 x 2400 color dpi,1 for superb detail and clarity. To achieve this, Canon Full-photolithography Inkjet Nozzle Engineering FINE uses a...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Photograph, Canon Inc., Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting

Software downloads 2005-08-01

Canon MP500 11.2.0.0 (Windows)

Canon MP500: With the versatile PIXMA MP500 Photo All-In-One on your desktop, you'll ask yourself how you ever got along without it. This amazing machine delivers an impressive resolution of up to 9600 x 2400 color dpi, for remarkable detail and clarity. How does it do it? Canon Full-photolithography Inkjet...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Photograph, Canon Inc., Canon Full-photolithography Inkjet Nozzle Engineering

Software downloads 2005-06-29