Refresh Electronics Charging Station

The Refresh Electronics Charging Station is a sleek charging station that allows you to recharge four devices simultaneously. Compatible with over 1,000 products, it is also "future ready" by incorporating the micro USB based charging interface - a standard being introduced by most major brands. Fully customizable via two USB sockets and extra connectors for an additional 2,000 device compatibility. A practical and affordable charging station, Refresh is offered in white or black color choice. Refresh is an extraordinary good looking product, designed for the office and every room in the house - so you can recharge most if not all of...

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Canon X Mark I Calculator Goes Green

We don't often cover such generic items such as a basic calculator, but this latest invention from Canon U.S.A, Inc, deserves a mention. Canon have delivered the X Mark I calculator, which not only looks very polished, but is environmentally friendly, being made entirely from recycled materials. The display panel is made exclusively of recycled Canon Digital Camera Prism Preconsumer materials.Following the success of the design of Canon's Powershot Digital Camera range, the calculator incorporates a similar look and feel. The X Mark I is 100 percent solar powered, is loaded with increased memory capacity and hosts a variety of sophisticated...

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Hector The Creepy Crawly Spider Robot

Everyone loves robots. Not everyone loves spiders. This might leave you uncertain over this product, which comes courtesy of the University of Bielefeld's Department of Biological Cybernetics. Named HECTOR, (obviously an acronym for HExapod Cognitive auTonmously Operating Robot), this spider-like robot measures in at approximately one meter in length and is 12 kilograms in weight. 13 percent of this weight belongs to the exoskeleton, with joints on its legs allowing the robot to move somewhat creepily like a spider.I'm not sure why the University chose to base the robot on an arachnid that tends to creep out the majority of society....

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Albert Einstein Biography

(Albert Einstein)Born in Ulm, in Württemberg, Germany on March 14th 1879, Albert Einstein and his family soon moved to Munich where Einstein started his education - at the Luitpold Gymnasium. He continued his education in Aarau, Switzerland before entering the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich where he trained to become a teacher in the fields of physics and mathematics.At the turn of the century he earned his diploma, and obtained Swiss citizenship, but failed to find a teaching position, so instead opted to become a technical assistant in the Swiss Patent Office. He earned his doctor's degree four years later, in 1905.It...

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