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A NZ baker reckons there's a place in the market for biscuits made just the way you'd make them at home. With their pantry-fresh ingredient list and handmade production, complete with the imprint of fork tines, his biscuits are gaining a following among buyers who want home-made taste with store-bought convenience.
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A NZ company which is developing a wristband that constantly monitors a patient's health data and uploads the information to the internet has received funding to help get the invention to market. The device is designed to collect data including heart rate and body temperature. This is then uploaded to the internet where it can be accessed anywhere by caregivers, doctors or specialists, including on a smartphone or tablet device. The wristband should go through clinical trials in October and is expected to be commercially released in December.
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The US government has demanded designs for a 3D-printed gun be taken offline. The order to remove the blueprints for the plastic gun comes after they were downloaded more than 100,000 times. The US State Department wrote to the gun's designer,suggesting publishing them online may breach arms-control regulations.
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If you want to watch video on your phone or tablet, you’ll find that many networks can’t always serve up the data fast enough. So your choices are limited. Early next year, an emerging wireless technology known as LTE Broadcast could change all that, essentially making it possible for carriers to put a TV-like broadcast stream within LTE cellular signals.
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Researchers in Germany have developed new color-changing gloves designed to alert lab workers to the presence of invisible toxic chemicals. The idea, researchers say, is to provide scientists or factory workers with a simple and straightforward alert system. The gloves could also provide a more energy efficient alternative to the heat imaging systems or electronic sensors currently used to detect airborne toxins.
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The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment has been informed by the Institution of Professional Engineers (IPENZ) of concerns about the quality of imported structural steel used in New Zealand buildings.
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Could severe water shortages short-circuit the recent US shale gas boom? With 64% of the country in drought, water is looming as the next hot-button issue in the debate over hydrofracturing, also known as fracking, which involves injecting chemical-laden water under high pressure to create fissures in subterranean rock formations so gas and oil can be extracted.
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Consumer goods and technology companies are aggregating the supply chain partners necessary to advance interactive packaging. Currently pilot projects are running in numerous industries, ranging from beverages to pharmaceuticals. The leading companies involved are learning, adapting, re-engineering and re-testing to evaluate the full potential of the technology and the opportunity to build relationships and unique interactions with customers
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Scientists have made a step forward in their ability to mimic the sense of touch. A team from the US and China made an experimental array that can sense pressure in the same range as the human fingertip. The advance could speed the development of smarter artificial skin capable of "feeling" activity on the surface and also help give robots a more adaptive sense of touch.
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Space junk, such as old satellites, used bits of rocket and other debris, is an increasing threat to the international space station and satellites. However, British engineers are working on a way of clearing up space junk, using a harpoon.
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It's been 40 years since the first call was made on a mobile telephone on a New York street. Since then mobile phones have changed not only their appearance and capabilities, but also our lives.
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One of Britain's youngest internet entrepreneurs has hit the jackpot after selling his content-shrrinking application to internet search giant Yahoo
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Ryan Lee was busy revelling in the immediate success of his invention - a high-quality mini speaker that could fill a room with music - when the party was cut short. Six months into production, he started receiving calls from his distributors in Europe, telling him they had been offered what looked like the exact same speaker at a much cheaper pric.e
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An Auckland technology firm has launched an initiative aimed at changing the perception of computer science in schools and building the pool of talent the ICT industry needs.
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For 18 years amputee Leigh Ellis has lived with a false leg – putting it on, taking it off, with discomfort and sometimes even bleeding.Now thanks to a groundbreaking operation carried out in Christchurch to fit a metal stem into her femur bone she can be fitted with a new robotic attachment to become a more natural extension of her upper leg
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