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Emergency data destruction

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Do you remember the leaked pictures and documents from a Maldivian Minister's Computer? Are you planning to sell your PC? Even if you formatted your hard disk, your data is still there. Anybody with the right tools can recover your data easily. All your photos, personal documents may appear on social networking sites the next day. Another Scenario ----------------- You are an activist, secretly working to topple an autocratic government, and one day somebody knocks your door. You find out that they are from the secret service. And you have tons of information on your computer which they can use against you. What do you do? So what's the solution. The easiest and best solution is to remove the hard drive and keep it somewhere safe. What if you need to destroy the data on the hard disk? Well, fortunately generous programmers have developed applications which wipe out the data completely from your storage device.. Darik's Boot And Nuke securely wipes data completely.. Its an ...

High speed robotics with the ability to catch a flying object.

An extremely high speed robotic arm which can close its fingers in 1/10 of a second was demonstrated at 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 12 - 17, 2009, Kobe, Japan. The system consists of visual and tactile sensors at a rate of 1kHz and a high-speed hand-arm manipulator. The following video shows Ishikawa Komuro Lab's high-speed robot hand performing impressive acts of dexterity and skillful manipulation. Amazing huh!