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From Ars Technica: New Philips monitor uses sensor to promote better posture


High-tech sensors are everywhere. They alert us to spoiled food. They monitor our stress levels. And they’re blowing up in the health and fitness space, too, helping us track our key sleep and activity metrics.

And now we have the Philips ErgoSensor Monitor, a desktop display that keeps an eye on one’s posture

The 24-inch LCD monitor uses a built-in CMOS sensor to determine your
distance from the screen and your neck angle while sitting. The monitor
works with software made by DigitalOptics Corporation, and, like a
worried mother, will remind you to straighten your back, keep your
distance from the display, and take breaks from sitting at the computer.

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From Autoblog: Video: Watch a bus driver block escape of hit-and-run driver

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There has been plenty of debate about whether bicyclists should be able to take up a lane typically reserved for motor vehicles. While that argument is far from settled, we can all agree that hit-and-run accidents between cars and bikes have got to stop.

At least one bus driver seems to agree with that statement, as evidenced by the action displayed in this video posted by the Bethlehem, Pennsylvania police department. The driver in question, a minor, faces multiple charges.

After seeing the bicyclist get hit, a quick-thinking bus driver can be seen blocking both traffic lanes, leaving the hit-and-run driver with nowhere to go. Well done. Hit the jump to watch the traffic camera footage.

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Watch a bus driver block escape of hit-and-run driver originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 07 Apr 2012 20:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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From Engadget: Flawed diamonds are perfect ingredients for quantum computing, just add time travel

Flawed diamonds are perfect ingredients for quantum computing, just add time travel

Ready to suspend your brain cells in a superposition of disbelief? Good, because the latest news published in Nature is that diamonds are a quantum computer‘s best friend — particularly if they’re flawed. An international team of scientists sought out sub-atomic impurities in a 1mm-thick fragment of over-priced carbon and used these as qubits to perform successful calculations. A “rogue” nitrogen nucleus provided one qubit, while a free electron became a second. Unlike previous attempts at solid-state quantum computing, this new effort used an extra technique to protect the system from decoherence errors: microwave pulses were fired at the electron qubit to “time-reverse” inconsistencies in its spinning motion. Don’t fully get it? Us neither. In any case, it probably won’t stop jewellers tut-tutting to themselves.

Flawed diamonds are perfect ingredients for quantum computing, just add time travel originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 07 Apr 2012 06:08:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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