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Japan quake effects length of day and GPS coordinates

The 8.9-magnitude quake in Japan will not only leave an everlasting impression on the country, but globally as a result of the quake’s effect on the rotation of the Earth and GPS coordinates.
Incredibly, the earthquake in Japan was so powerful it sped up the rotation of the Earth resulting in the shrinking of a 24-hour [...]

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Despite Contamination, Navy Copters Keep Aiding Japan [Video]

As the world braced for a possible core meltdown in Japan's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, the U.S. Navy kept its helicopters flying to provide earthquake and tsunami relief. More »






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Watch "Tron: The Next Day," a short film about what happened between Tron and Tron Legacy [Video]

Tron: The Next Day (Flynn Lives Revealed) is a 10-minute short that fills in the backstory between the first and second films. It recently appeared on YouTube and contains unused footage from Tron Legacy. More »






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This Robot Can Crack Any Master Lock

What, you may ask, are these three hotties and that one guy doing holding what looks like a logic board? That would be the LockCracker, a robot designed to ensure no gym locker can stand in its way, and helping advance the arrival of our robot overlords just that little step closer.

Designed and built by Jessica Bethune, Aiswary Kolisetty, Jessica Noglows, and Rob Sobecki at The Olin College of Engineering, or Team JARJ as they call themselves, the LockCracker is pretty ingenious. Designed around Master Locks, the user inputs what they know of the combination into the computer, clicks the mouse, and the LockCracker takes care of the rest, physically running every possible combination if necessary to open the lock. As a nice bonus, it displays the combination to the user, so you don’t have to use the LockCracker twice.

It’s actually a pretty ingenious project, and believe it or not, it was done for class. They had to custom-engineer a mechanical system, design an electrical system around it, and code the software in C and Python.

No word on what the team will do next, or if the LockCracker has any future beyond a resume line, but we hope it enters production, if for no other reason than we’d really like to get our gym bag back. Check out their website for the project, and full details on how they built it, at the LockCracker official site.

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Spiral Staircase and Escalator 3d Model Download

Staircase and escalator is a different building element with similar function, all of the helps people to go up/down on the next floor. The one is a transparent spiral staircase which perfect to put in your home model visualization and the second is a detailed escalator which great to furnish large office building department store [...]

Executive Women on Office Chair 3d Model Download

An executive women 3d model sits on an office chair, its a detailed model complete with the clothes, glasses, necklace and also cellular phone. Available free to download in 3ds format under creative common license.

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