Swiss materials company Empa, has created an air-conditioned bulletproof vest based on Coolpad technology that could help keep police officers cool in the summer heat. Water-filled pads are built into the vest and evaporate through the membrane to help cool down the wearer. Behind the pad, a little fan adds more ventilation. There were a few challenges in making air conditioned Kevlar. First. 

As the number of tablets continues to grow in education, the Lebanese government is planning to offer 15,000 affordable tablet devices to public school students in the near future at subsidized prices. The telecom minister Nicholas Sehnaoui and education minister Hassan Diab outlined Lebanon’s vision for using tablets in schools, with the plan of providing every public school student in. 

A Russian company, backed by Microsoft, has developed software it says can disrupt and prevent people from downloading pirated content known as Pirate Pay. The software has so far worked with Walt Disney Studios and Sony Pictures to stop “thousands” of downloads. The tool poses as real bit torrent users but then “confuses” peer-to-peer networks, causing disconnections.. 

Soon, anyone who has enough money will be able to get a ride on SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft towards the Bigelow habitats that will be orbiting the earth. The private space flight company SpaceX, is teaming up with Bigelow Aerospace to create space holiday cabins for private tourists! The BA 330 habitat  has 330 cubic metres of room and support a crew of 6. These habitats will be available. 

A Russian rocket launched three astronauts, NASA’s Joe Acaba and Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin, aboard a Soyuz spacecraft from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome toward the International Space Station on Monday May 14, starting a two-day journey to the huge orbiting lab. The Soyuz spacecraft is expected to dock with the space station shortly after midnight. 

The Microsoft Imagine Cup Finals for Lebanon, took place on the 10th and 11rh of of May 2012 with 2 rounds and 17 teams from different universities in Lebanon. This year Berytech hosted the competition and the teams of students presented their projects in-front a panel of  judges who are experts within the domains of technology, business and world changing ideas. Every year, one team gets. 

U.K. based scientists at Peratech have recently designed and developed a small electronic nose sensor that can be tied into clothing or paper. The sensor has the capability to sense different smells of several chemicals including harmful ones such as volatile organic compounds(VOC). The sensor uses a new type of electronically conductive material, made in a powder form, being used to add. 

Around of 23 more countries in different corners of the the Earth will be getting the “New iPad” byMay 11. Most of these countries are South American countries such, Brazil. Furthermore, parts of Africa and southeast Asia will be served such as Vietnam. Seven Persian Gulf countries will be getting the new iPad later this year too. By this weekend, the iPad will be available in. 

Five Microsoft Kinect devices have been set up all around the University of Minnesota’s Institute of Child Development, to be used for monitoring the students, looking for signs of unusual behavior that might indicate a potential autism spectrum disorder. Autism spectrum disorder(ASD) is a range of conditions related to autism and can be difficult to diagnose. Many behaviors, especially. 

Astronauts on board the International Space Station have taken a stunning new photo of a heavily eroded impact crater in Algeria. The image below shows the Ouarkziz Crater, which is a 3.5-kilometer hole in the ground in northwestern Algeria, near the border with Morocco. The crater is said to be created by an asteroid impact less than 70 million years ago at an age known as the “Age.