Space: Not as clean as it looks. Photo / File
Each day we bring you selection of the world's tech news:
TWO TON BIKES: The MotoCzysz E1PC (pronounced Motosizz) is an electric motorbike with a 12.5 kW h lithium polymer battery. The motor
generates 100 HP and has shown its chops with a top speed of 225 Kph
on the racetrack.
Sizzling.
TRASH TAKEOUT: Space litter could kill. NASA now track around 20,000 pieces of garbage out of the half million in orbit. Recently space trash almost took out the Space Station. It's time to stop tossing the garbage overboard, folks.
SHHH: 25,000 antennas across the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, France and Britain are trying to hear signals from the Big Bang. Together they make one giant radio-telescope with a diameter of about 1000 Km. "Is that the Big Bang, or just space junk swooshing by?"
A SCOOP OF CHIPS: Also working together: hundreds of Atom chips from netbooks can be glommed together to make a low-cost web server. The size of a credit card, it hardly uses any power. 512: the atomic
weight of a server.
3D SOCCER: Sony's 3D experience pavilion at Nelson Mandela Square
features a 280 inch LED screen. Visitors to the pavilion will see highlights of the 25 matches filmed in 3D during the 2010 FIFA World Cup. No, don't duck - you're the goalie!
