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Hallucinations
Hallucinations

To many people, hallucinations imply madness, but in fact they are a common part of the human experience. These sensory distortions range from the shimmering zigzags of a visual migraine to powerful visions brought on by fever, injuries, drugs, sensory deprivation, exhaustion, or even grief. Hallucinations doubtless lie behind many...

The Fantastic Inventions of Nikola Tesla (Lost Science)
The Fantastic Inventions of Nikola Tesla (Lost Science)
While a large portion of the European family has been surging westward during the last three or four hundred years, settling the vast continents of America, another, but smaller, portion has been doing frontier work in the Old World, protecting the rear by beating back the "unspeakable Turk" and reclaiming gradually the...
Printing in Plastic: Build Your Own 3D Printer (Technology in Action)
Printing in Plastic: Build Your Own 3D Printer (Technology in Action)

The book you’re holding in your hands is going to show you how to build your very own 3D Printer. It’s not science fiction. It’s a device that will allow you to print out (in plastic) whatever you can imagine. (Okay, that’s a bit of a stretch – there are size limitations when using this machine.) Read the...

iPad Application Development For Dummies
iPad Application Development For Dummies

The world stood on its toes as Steve Jobs announced the iPad in January 2010 as “our most advanced technology in a magical and revolutionary device at an unbelievable price.”

Do you believe in magic? The iPad has that magical quality of disappearing into your hands as you explore content with it. You have to hold...

Arduino: A Quick Start Guide
Arduino: A Quick Start Guide

With this Quick-Start Guide you'll be creating your first gadgets within a few minutes, following the step-by-step instructions and photos throughout the book. You'll build your own motion-sensing game controller with a three-axis accelerometer, connect the Arduino to the Internet and program both client and server...

Art and Technology of Entertainment Computing and Communication
Art and Technology of Entertainment Computing and Communication

Art and Technology of Entertainment Computing and Communication takes a blue sky research perspective on the field of interactive media for entertainment computing. Adrian David Cheok argues that entertainment as an end-product is useful for interactive play, however it is also a powerful tool for learning and communication and it is also a...

Principles of Broadband Switching & Networks
Principles of Broadband Switching & Networks

The past few decades have seen the merging of many computer and communication applications. Enabled by the advancement of optical fiber, wireless communication, and very-large-scale integration (VLSI) technologies, modern telecommunication networks can be regarded as one of the most important inventions of the past century.

Before...

Extreme NXT: Extending the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT to the Next Level, Second Edition
Extreme NXT: Extending the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT to the Next Level, Second Edition

Although LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT allows anyone to build complex inventions, there are limits to what you can do with what comes inside the box. This book shows you how to advance the NXT with more than 45 exciting projects that include creating a cool magic wand that writes words in thin air, building a remotely guided vehicle, and constructing...

Submarine Warfare An Illustrated History
Submarine Warfare An Illustrated History
The lure of underwater travel seems to have obsessed inventors almost as much as the wish to fly, but the first attempt to address practical problems did not come until the sixteenth century. In 1578 an Englishman called William Bourne wrote of a submersible boat in his book Inventions and Devices.

Although there is no evidence that
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The Next Leap in Productivity: What Top Managers Really Need to Know about Information Technology
The Next Leap in Productivity: What Top Managers Really Need to Know about Information Technology
What Top Managers Really Need to Know about Information Technology

"These kinds of productivity principles are not mere theory. When we put these same principles into effect, our productivity went up more than we had thought possible. And our employee morale went up, too. It became easier to write code the right way and harder to make...

Technology: A World History (New Oxford World History)
Technology: A World History (New Oxford World History)
Today technology has created a world of dazzling progress, growing disparities of wealth and poverty, and looming threats to the environment. Technology: A World History offers an illuminating backdrop to our present moment--a brilliant history of invention around the globe. Historian Daniel R. Headrick ranges from the Stone Age and the beginnings...
The Geek Atlas: 128 Places Where Science and Technology Come Alive
The Geek Atlas: 128 Places Where Science and Technology Come Alive
The history of science is all around us, if you know where to look. With this unique traveler's guide, you'll learn about 128 destinations around the world where discoveries in science, mathematics, or technology occurred or is happening now. Travel to Munich to see the world's largest science museum, watch Foucault's pendulum swinging in Paris,...
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