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India's energy crisis cascaded over half the country when three of its regional grids collapsed, leaving 620 million people without government-supplied electricity for several hours in, by far, the world's biggest blackout. The massive failure has raised serious concerns about India's outdated infrastructure and the government's inability to meet its huge appetite for energy.
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In this week's TV3 tech news, a home help has been developed that is far from human. There is also a new gadget for gamers, and a website that helps people build their own books.
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The Commerce Commission has warned fruit importer Dole it may be in breach of the Fair Trading Act on three separate counts relating to the company's Ethical Choice marketing scheme.
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Ever since General Motors first put "Unimate" on an assembly line in 1961, most manufacturing robots have worked in isolation, caged off from human workers. Now a new breed of more flexible robot is being developed to work more closely with people.
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Jet-pack pilot Nick Macomber, from San Diego in California, took off from Bayswater Marina in Auckland on a test flight before the CRC Speed Show where he, his team and their back-from-the-future mode of transport would be star attractions.
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An Australian company developing piles that act as 'shock absorbers' for houses during earthquakes hopes to test the new technology in Christchurch.
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Deep inside a 1950s-era building that has housed research since the origins of US space travel, people in white coats are stirring, mixing, measuring, brushing and tasting the end result of their cooking. Their mission: Build a menu for a planned journey to Mars in the 2030s.
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Weta Workshop has long had the capability of using 3D printing technology to turn digital models into solid three dimnensional objects such as helmets and axes. Now they are bolting a robotic milling machine onto the printers to make larger props such as a car.
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Performance-enhancing technologies will create athletes who will need a separate Olympic Games, a biomechanical engineer predicts in the latest edition of Nature.
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More than 285 million people suffer from visual impairment, yet the tools to assist the blind in walking have changed little since the 1920s, when their canes started being painted white to make other pedestrians more aware of their presence. A young Indian computer engineer aims to change this with "Le Chal" ("take me along" in Hindi), which pairs a smartphone app with a small actuator sewn inside the sole of one shoe via Bluetooth. The user tells the phone his desired destination, and the app fetches the local map of the area and, using the phone's Global Positioning System (GPS), tracks the user's location in real-time and tells the actuator to vibrate when it is time to turn, and which way.
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A Mount Maunganui company is spearheading a pioneering project to transform the diesel-dependent South Pacific nation of Tokelau into the world's first solar-powered country.
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While other students were enjoying their holidays, 21 Wanganui City College Year 12 and 13 students were hard at work putting in a 40-hour week as part of their school Technology programme.
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A new video game console costing just $99 could help bring smartphone games to your living room. The device runs a version of the Android operating system and eschews the disc-based games of traditional consoles, offering download-only app store instead. The system's controller also hints at a mix between consoles and phones - it looks like an Xbox 360 controller with the addition of a touchpad.
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These days children often learn to navigate the internet before they learn to read. In the US most young children now have access to a touch-screen device that, according to Daniel Anderson, a professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Massachusetts, could be more addictive than watching television.
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FaceMe is the NZ technology solution that is changing the way businesses interact with customers. While Skype might have become one of the internet's most popular free downloads, allowing millions of users around the world to enjoy face to face telephony, the system does have its limitations when it comes to business users. Enter home grown technology company Hitech Solutions which has taken the best of Skype and integrated a range of software technologies, including Windows applications such as Word, Excel and Powerpoint, to produce a cost effective video conferencing solution known as FaceMe.
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