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DailyTech – Japan’s Top Minds, Companies Look to Beat U.S. to Space Elevator

Japan’s experts claim they will soon have a space elevator.  And they claim they will be able to do it on a bafflingly low budget — a trillion yen ($9.5B USD).  However, the claim is slightly more believable when you consider Japan’s leadership in precision engineering and material science.

Japanese Language Proficiency Test – Vocabulary Lists – Words on Left.

very useful site if you are preparing for the JLPT exams

Japanese Festivals

Nice article by DannyChoo about summer festivals in Japan

DailyTech – Scientist Transmits Solar Power on Earth, Next Up: Space

Funded by the Discovery Channel, John C. Mankins finished a four month experiment which began by collecting solar power, nothing out of the ordinary.  What happened next was relatively extraordinary, though — he transmitted the power 92 miles (148 km) between two Hawaiian Islands.

eSATA & USB Combo Drive is an economic SSD solution – Archives PCLaunches.com

Study: Japan set for broadband future; everyone else screwed

extra source: Dailytech

Japan was the only country that is “future-ready.”

Sweden is a distant second to Japan, followed by the Netherlands, Latvia, and Korea. The US comes just above Russia

Countries that don’t even qualify for today’s needs include the UK, Spain, Canada, and Australia, with Mexico, China, and India at the very bottom of the list.

StreetFire.net – what do Italian living in the near of Ferrari

DailyTech – New Nano-“Motherships” Help Further the Microscopic War on Cancer

new nanoparticles evade the body’s defenses while delivering chemical markers and lethal toxins to cancer tumors

DailyTech – First True 3D Processor Created, Runs at 1.4 GHz

The University of Rochester with help from MIT pulls the wraps off the first true 3D processor

DailyTech – Charged Carbon Molecule Could Power Tomorrow’s Quantum Computers

Researcher discovers a new unique carbon molecule that he says could advance organic semiconductors, quantum computing

DailyTech – CERN Turns on the LHC

The launch of the world’s largest particle accelerator is going almost seamlessly thus far
CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has gone online, becoming the world’s largest operational particle collider.  The LHC was the result of $9B USD

DailyTech – Sony Officially Announces 24.6MP Alpha 900 D-SLR

Sony is ready to officially pull the wraps off its 24.6MP Alpha 900 full-frame D-SLR. The Alpha 900 features a glass pentaprism, dual BIONZ image processors, 100% coverage viewfinder, SteadyShot INSIDE image stabilization, 9-point autofocus, HDMI output, and 5 FPS continuous shooting capabilities.

Other features include a 921,000-pixel 3.0” Xtra Fine LCD, “Quick Navi” mode for on-the-fly camera adjustments, and compatibility with the optional VG-C90AM Vertical Grip.

Us: $223 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16836121120
Europe: $445 http://www.alternate.de/html/product/Sound_Boxen/Logitech/Z-5500/47752/

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Cern collider ready for power-up

Three decades after it was conceived, the world’s most powerful physics experiment is ready to be powered up.

On Wednesday, engineers will attempt to circulate a beam of particles around the 27km-long underground tunnel which houses the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

The £5bn machine is designed to smash particles together with cataclysmic force, revealing signs of new physics in the wreckage.

This will re-create conditions in the Universe moments after the Big Bang.