92. Weighing in at 680g, Simon had a touchscreen and could send emails and even faxes which current smartphones cannot handle. Simon was in a way very advanced forefather of current smartphones. The Tablet PC Do you know when the concept of tablet computer was first invented? In 1968, computing pioneer Alan Kay at Xerox designed Dynabook, a remarkably iPad-like tablet-style PC especially for ...
it easier for the user to feel and manipulate objects.Here on Earth, remote control of tools is the only safe way to handle dangerous material like toxic waste. In space exploration, remote control has already been demonstrated, as technicians on Earth used robot hands to scoop up Martian soil samples. With VR techniques well not only be able to learn more about the solar system, but we'll ...
neurons," analog-integrated circuits that approach the functional characteristics of genuine nerve cells, which handle ion currents to produce nerve impulses. Computer engineers are even now trying to combine many silicon neurons onto one microchip, connecting the chips to imitate the way organic brains process information.It seems that we're on the way to making what Marvin Minsky has called ...
and so on-we are dealing with what has been rotting ever since life has existed. The materials produced can be handled by living things, or we would all have died out long ago.With plastics, however, products may be formed that aren't composed of natural substances. They may be toxic, or carcinogenic, or in other ways very damaging.Well, then, what do we do? There are those who say that ...
that, as far as we know, cannot be broken up into anything simpler. For scientists, 12 leptons are not too many to handle.The neutron and proton are different. In the first place, neutrons and protons are a little more than 1,800 times as massive as electrons, so that they represent about 99.95 percent of the universe. Then, too, scientists began to identify all sorts of other particles that ...
as to have tendency to explode ― but so do gasoline and natural gas. We just have to be careful in the way we handle them. Worse yet, hydrogen does not occur as such in nature. It can't just be chopped down, as wood can, or dug for like coal, or drilled for like oil. It must be produced chemically from substamces that contain hydrogen atoms.For instance, coal, oil and gas all contain ...