WASHINGTON - Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a novel nanotube-coated power measurement device, which would be able to calibrate high-power laser systems, such as those intended to defuse unexploded mines, more quickly and easily.

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WASHINGTON - Online auction site eBay, which was launched more than a decade ago, had prompted fears that the site would spur plunder of genuine artefacts and antiques, but the reverse has happened. Indeed, eBay has drastically altered the transporting and selling of illegal artefacts, writes Charles 'Chip' Stanish, one of the world's foremost authorities in antiques, but not in the way he and other archaeologists had feared.

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Geeks do everything differently. Be it from their life style to gadgets, they have statements of their kinds. The other day our completely gadget freak colleague told us why not have a different set of keyboards for geeks? Do we at all have them. Well from then the expedition began to some of the most weirdest of gizmos we have come across. You can call them anything but keyboards but in reality they are just that. Some have swiveling pads where some look exactly like typing pads. Some are so geeky that you may feel lost and try to Esc (read: escape) literally. But as gadgetophilics have always brought different mood of electronics always, here is another feature article of its kinds. To give you a sneak peek,

1. Data Hand Keyboard
2. Flexible Keyboard
3. Virtual Laser Keyboard
4. Safe Type Ergonomics Keyboard

are a few to name, Check out top 10 geeky keyboards

WASHINGTON - Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories, US, have constructed a carbon nanotube device that can detect the colours of the rainbow, by identifying the entire visible spectrum of light, a feat that could soon allow scientists to probe single molecule transformations.

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LONDON - A scientist has used Google Earth to detect a spot in the Caribbean that can trigger a tsunami in the future.According to a report in New Scientist, the spot was found by Richard Teeuw from the Geohazard Research Centre at the University of Portsmouth, UK, and his colleagues.

"We were doing fieldwork on the volcanic island of Dominica in the Lesser Antilles and initially just used Google Earth to identify good study areas," he said.

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The Top 10 'Inventions' that Changed the World

LONDON - Credit cards, trainer shoes, social networking sites, and GPS technology have made it to the list of things that have changed the world.

To mark the National Science and Engineering Week, a panel of 20 experts from the British Science Association have drawn up a list of the top 10 things that have changed the world, reports The Telegraph. Read the list in full below:

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WASHINGTON - Every second, millions of phone calls and cable TV shows are dispatched through fibres as digital zeros and ones formed by chopping laser pulses into bits.

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KOLKATA - The global economic meltdown has reduced the pace of growth of West Bengal's showpiece IT sector, but the state wants to build IT infrastructure and develop a talent pool so that it's ready when times get better.

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If you are interested in getting all the following things inside 10$(which is the best deal for Christmas I guess, until now)

• Ballpoint Pen (replaceable)
• Stylus
• Bright white LED flexible-shaft flashlight
• UV light
• Red laser pointer

then read the entire story and seal the deal at gadgetophilia.com

AlienBlaster is a refreshing open source shoot-the-aliens game with various levels and an arcade mode. It is available on Windows, Linux, OS/2 & eComStation, Mac OSX (DarwinPorts), MorphOS and AmigaOS4.

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