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Power Ascender: Ballsy Tool Yanks People, Equipment up Walls
Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:00:00 GMT
What it is: Atlas Power Ascender
What it's used for: Rapidly pulling people and their gear up the side of a building or canyon
The prototype of the Power Ascender was not easy to use. The battery-powered, waist-mounted climbing assistant yanked people up a dangling rope at a blistering 10 feet per second — almost 7 mph — fast enough to snap their limbs back. So Atlas, a company run by four mechanical engineers outside Boston, set the maximum speed to a more reasonable 5 feet per second and added a variable- speed trigger like on a power drill. Now customers — such as US military personnel — simply clip the 25-pound device onto a climbing harness, push any nonbraided rope through the top, and let it fly. Inside the gizmo, a network of grippers scurries up the line and ensures that it threads cleanly out the side. The Ascender's 10-kilowatt output can lift up to 350 pounds, which is no easy task. "Having that much power that close to your crotch is a huge engineering challenge," says Atlas' Bryan Schmid, "and frankly a bit risky." Sounds pretty ballsy.
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Hands On: 'Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep'
Sat, 11 Oct 2008 06:20:00 GMT
Birth By Sleep, the upcoming PSP entry in the Kingdom Hearts series, reminded me of why I like this Square Enix/Disney crossover in the first place. Beating things up with a giant key is fun.
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Nintendo DS Steals the Tokyo Game Show
Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:28:00 GMT
At the Tokyo Game Show, it's the year of the Nintendo DS. With more than 23 million units sold in Japan alone, and an updated version of the hardware called the DSi on the way next month, there isn't a gamemaker at the show that isn't preparing one or more big-budget games for DS.
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Video: 192 Lasers, Nuclear Weapons, and Fusion Power
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:24:00 GMT
Wired Science visits the high-security National Ignition Facility, which Department of Energy scientists hope will help manage the American nuclear weapons stockpile and provide the key to harnessing fusion power.
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Inside Operation Highlander: NSA's Wiretapping of Americans Overseas
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:15:00 GMT
A top secret NSA wiretapping facility accused of wiretapping innocent Americans abroad was hastily staffed with inexperienced reservists in the months following September 11, where they worked under conflicting orders and with little supervision, according to three former workers at spy complex.
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VeriSign, ICANN Square Off Over DNS Root
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:59:00 GMT
As the U.S. government starts the process of closing a major net vulnerability, two longtime net infrastructure rivals -- the non-profit ICANN and for-profit VeriSign -- are battling over who will compile and verify the net's most important document. Internet experts give the nod to ICANN and bring up VeriSign's greedy past.
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What's On Your CSS Wishlist?
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:48:00 GMT
Cascading Style Sheets are a key component to presenting content on web pages. But the standard, now more than ten years old, has its limits. If you had your say in the discussion to improve CSS, what would you ask for?
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Underground Whispering Campaign Could Undermine McCain
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:29:00 GMT
An e-mail circulating online that looks like a revealing personal account of a vacation taken with John McCain could undermine his image of an upright character since a lot of people appear to believe unverified information forwarded to them by their friends.
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Climate Models Trump Financial Models Phew!
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:20:03 GMT
While earth scientists and investment bankers both employ data-heavy computer models, climate models are on much firmer ground than their shaky financial counterparts.
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How to Camp With Less Gear
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:20:00 GMT
With all the gear you pack up for your camping trip, sometimes you forget what camping is all about. These hardcore tips from Les Stroud of TV's Survivorman should strip us back down to just the essentials and get us back to nature.
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