On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 15:39:28 -0700 (PDT), Deborah Harrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5237628/?GT1=3584 > > RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Brazilian scientists claimed > to have found a new fish species believed to have > lurked deep in the south Atlantic Ocean for over 150 > million years. The fish, of the Chimaera genus, is > about 12-16 inches long and is found at depths of > 1,300 to 2,000 feet, scientists said Thursday. > > ...The Chimaera can sense the presence of other > animals by scanning the electromagnetic field around > it, ....
New sensors detecting electromagnetic auras around people to be deployed in cars as air bag sensors. Sixth Sense ...front airbags on more and more cars sold in the United States have to distinguish small drivers and passengers from big ones. Most carmakers now pass the new standards by means of mechanical weight-sensing systems in the cars' seats. Starting this summer, however, two General Motors models will feature electric field sensing systems. A French car seat maker, Faurecia, has also demonstrated an electric fieldâbased system. Working together with MIT and Rittmueller's group, electronics giant Motorola has developed an electric field imaging microchip. It went into production for automotive use in 2002. The device takes the place of about 90 discrete electronic components, says electrical engineer Kevin S. Anderson of Freescale, a Phoenix-based Motorola spin-off. Since February 2003, the chip has also been on the market for general-purpose electric field imaging beyond automotive applications. In January, the chip won a "Product of the Year" award from Electronic Products magazine. The availability of the chip appears to be creating ferment among technology developers. "We've shipped millions of the devices," mostly for the automotive market, Anderson says. Twenty products incorporating the chip are imminent, and hundreds more are in the conceptual stage, he adds. "People are finding a lot of neat things to apply [the chip] toâthings we never thought of ourselves," says Ron DeLong, a recently retired engineer who led the development of the chip for Motorola. Although companies aren't yet revealing these products, the Media Lab developments over the past decade hint at what's in store. Also, a contest last year by electronics magazine Circuit Cellar suggests other potential uses of the new chip. Winning entries included an antitheft briefcase, a sleep-monitoring system, and an electronic whoopee cushion. Other products might rely on electric fields to detect water from leaky pipes or a pot boiling over. http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20040619/bob9.asp Gary Denton fish sense maru #1 on google for liberal news
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