REX, the Robotic Exoskeleton, Gives Paraplegic Man a Bionic Set of Legs
Posted by: lark7t7
Auckland :: New Zealand | updated 2012-03-20 22:06:01 -0700 | technology-news
We've seen robotic exoskeletons before -- there's Lockheed's HULC that's designed to augment soldier performance, and then there's Raytheon's XOS that's more like an actual Iron Man suit -- but this one is different. REX, the Robotic Exoskeleton, is designed...
Aussie mining tax compromise reached...
Posted by: PeterPetterson
Wellington :: New Zealand | updated 2011-05-28 02:04:47 -0700 | technology-news
Aussie mining tax compromise reached... Australia's government will introduce separate tax regimes for the onshore petroleum industry and coal and iron ore under a compromise deal with miners to be announced early on Friday, according to media reports. Iron ore...
All ICT veterans for Auckland
Posted by: crocodila
Auckland :: New Zealand | updated 2011-10-25 08:11:42 -0700 | technology-news
By George Okore The two day Telecommunications and Information and Communications Technology (ICT) will be held in the New Zealand city of Auckland from June 29, 2010. The meeting which will be held at Sky City Auckland Convention Center, comes...
New Taste—for Fat, (Scientists Discover)
Posted by: AbramsDavid
Wellington :: New Zealand | updated 2012-01-13 22:51:57 -0800 | technology-news
Scientists think they found a new taste sense, though it's probably one we should've found sooner: it's for fat. Researchers in New Zealand tested human subjects for the ability to taste fat and discovered varying levels of sensitivity to the...
New Zealand steps into the Space Age
Posted by: prabirghose
Whitianga :: New Zealand | updated 2012-07-27 21:44:15 -0700 | technology-news
The 6 meter long 60 Kg. rocket ATEA-1 took off as per plan from the Great Mercury Island and 50 odd persons witnessed the event. ATEA-1 became the first rocket to takeoff from the Southern Hemisphere. It reached a speed...
New Zealand Rocket Launch Makes History!
Posted by: Katie Kay Holmes
Whitianga :: New Zealand | updated 2012-05-04 16:49:38 -0700 | technology-news
The successful launch of New Zealand’s first suborbital rocket has created history today by being the first rocket launched into space by a privately owned company in the southern hemisphere.Atea-1 made its maiden voyage today after this morning’s delay due...
New Zealand Rocket Launch Delayed
Posted by: Katie Kay Holmes
Tauranga :: New Zealand | updated 2011-05-04 07:46:18 -0700 | technology-news
The launch of New Zealand’s first suborbital rocket has been delayed this morning due to a technical problem.The Atea-1, due to be launched from Great Mercury Island is to be propelled by a revolutionary type of fuel and jet/rocket motor....
Antarctican ICEBERGS moving Towards NEW ZEALAND
Posted by: RaulDeSouza
Wellington :: New Zealand | updated 2012-11-02 09:14:02 -0700 | technology-news
A rare flotilla of icebergs is slowly drifting toward New Zealand from Antarctica. Shippers have been warned that more than 100 giant chunks of ice are in the area. Experts believe most of the icebergs will break up before they...
2050 – Enjoy sex with robots
Posted by: prabirghose
Wellington :: New Zealand | updated 2012-07-27 21:52:48 -0700 | technology-news
Trust the human brain to come up with the weirdest of ideas – a school of thought is gaining ground to create robots for safe sex. Given the increases of diseases like HIV and AIDS, related to physical relationships between...
Earthquake brings New Zealand closer to Australia
Posted by: MrOrange
Invercargill :: New Zealand | updated 2012-03-16 12:18:06 -0700 | technology-news
An earthquake of the west coast of the south island of New Zealand has moved the west coast of the country about 12 inches (30 mil) closer to Australia, while the east coast moved less than an inch. In short,...
Closer Neighbors: New Zealand "Soft" Quake Slides Island Toward Australia
Posted by: anonymous
Wellington :: New Zealand | updated 2012-03-08 11:45:51 -0800 | technology-news
That 7.8 magnitude earthquake in New Zealand that occurred on Wednesday of last week has managed to bring New Zealand and Australia a bit closer together. Seismologists said that although the quake was the largest in 80 years in the...
The Manuka factor - honey made from the NZ manuka tree...
Posted by: huttriver
Hamilton :: New Zealand | updated 2011-10-30 19:21:08 -0700 | technology-news
The Manuka factor - honey made from the NZ manuka tree... First published at Qassia: Honey made by bees from the nectar of New Zealand's manuka tree, leptospermum scoparium, contains an antibacterial property not found in other honeys. Honey from...
The ozone hole versus greenhouses gases and climate change
Posted by: huttriver
Lower Hutt :: New Zealand | updated 2011-10-30 19:22:03 -0700 | technology-news
The dangerous ozone hole versus greenhouse gases and climate change... The Ozone hole in the Southern Pacific area encompassing New Zealand and Australia, long blamed for increased skin cancers in these countries, could actually be holding back an Antarctic thaw,...
Swine flu arrives in New Zealand...
Posted by: huttriver
Wellington :: New Zealand | updated 2011-10-30 19:22:03 -0700 | technology-news
Swine flu has arrived in New Zealand after recent secondary school trips to Mexico resulted in a number of students becoming unwell. Twenty three students and two teachers from Rangitoto College just outside Auckland in the North Island, were isolated...
Scientists find new penguin, extinct for 500 years
Posted by: thapaprajwal
Wellington :: New Zealand | updated 2012-05-14 21:16:18 -0700 | technology-news
WELLINGTON, New Zealand – Researchers studying a rare and endangered species of penguin have uncovered a previously unknown species that disappeared about 500 years ago. The research suggests that the first humans in New Zealand hunted the newly found Waitaha...
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