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Ruth Howard

HP Invents a Central Nervous System for the Earth | Inhabitat - 4 views

  • HP has just unveiled an incredibly ambitious project to create a “Central Nervous System for the Earth” (CeNSE) composed of billions of super sensitive, cheap, and tough sensors. The project involves distributing these sensors throughout the world and using them to gather data that could be used to detect everything from infrastructure collapse to environmental pollutants to climate change and impending earthquakes. From there, the “Internet of Things” and smarter cities are right around the corner.HP is currently developing its first sensor to be deployed, which is an accelerometer 1,000 times more sensitive than those used in the Wii or the iPhone – it’s capable of detecting motion and vibrations as subtle as a heartbeat. The company also has plans to use nanomaterials to create chemical and biological sensors that are 100 million times more sensitive than current models. Their overall goal is to use advances in sensitivity and nanotech to shrink the size of these devices so that they are small enough to clip onto a mobile telephone.Once HP has created an array of sensors, the next step is distributing them and making sense of all the data they generate. That’s no easy task, granted that a network of one million sensors running 24 hours a day would create 20 petabytes of data in just six months. HP is taking all that number crunching to task however, and will be harnessing its in-house networking expertise, consulting, and data storage technologies for the project.The creation of a global sensor system would be an incredible breakthrough – it could make our cities more efficient, save lives, and enable us to better understand, track, and combat climate change. As HP Labs senior researcher Peter Hartwell has stated, “If we’re going to save the planet, we’ve got to monitor it“.+ CeNSEVia Fast CompanyLead photo by Margie Wylie Comments RSS Comments RSS digg_url = 'http://www.inhabitat.com/2010/02/18/hp-invents-a-central-nervous-system-for-the-earth/'; digg_title = 'HP Invents a Central Nervous System for the Earth'; digg_skin = 'compact'; email this tweetmeme_url = "http://www.inhabitat.com/2010/02/18/hp-invents-a-central-nervous-system-for-the-earth/"; tweetmeme_style = "compact"; facebook this Related Posts
Jennifer Garcia

Earth Hour - Earth Hour 2010 Global Site - It's Show Time! - 5 views

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    "Turn out your light, show support In 2009 hundreds of millions of people around the world showed their support by turning off their lights for one hour. Earth Hour 2010 will continue to be a global call to action to every individual, every business and every community. A call to stand up, to show leadership and be responsible for our future. Pledge your support here and turn off your lights for one hour, Earth Hour, 8.30pm, Saturday 27th March 2010. It's Showtime! Show what can be done. Pledge your support "
David Wetzel

Little Know Ways to Support Earth Day - 5 views

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    Earth Day is around the corner - April 22nd - and every year teachers and students try to come up with new and innovative activities. Recycling is a popular activity to keep the idea recycling going strong. Classrooms often come up with ideas to recycle paper, ink cartridges, plastic bottles, metal cans, and newspapers. However, there are other recycling activities that students can get involved in to support Earth Day.
Martin Burrett

Eyes on the Earth - 8 views

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    Track satalites and the Internation Space Station, see visiual data about the Earth and so much more with this 3D Virtual Earth.
Clint Hamada

Find Shortest Distance Between Any Two Points On Earth - Using Google Maps or Google Ea... - 0 views

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    Using an online calculator to find great circle distances between two points on Earth.
Ric Murry

Flash Earth ...satellite and aerial imagery of the Earth in Flash - 0 views

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    Kinda of like an online Google Earth in case you can't get the real thing installed.
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    Okay, I've never done the "share" bit with a bookmark in Diigo. This is kind of a test, but it IS a neat site.
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    Simple, yet detailed alternative to Google Earth. Flash based.
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    Google Earth alternative.
Ted Sakshaug

Digital Library for Earth System Education - 12 views

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    The Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) is a distributed community effort involving educators, students, and scientists working together to improve the quality, quantity, and efficiency of teaching and learning about the Earth system at all levels.
Vicki Davis

Earth Day - Resources - TES - 4 views

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    Earth Day is April 22. Here are lesson plans for Earth Day that you can then use to tie into Arbor Day the next week. Environment, sustainability are both important topics that should be discussed in every school.
Vicki Davis

Who is eligible for Google Earth Pro grants, and how do I apply for a grant? - 0 views

  • Who is eligible for Google Earth Pro grants, and how do I apply for a grant?
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    How to apply for Google Earth Pro grants -- who is eligible. And information on how to apply.
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    Geography teachers see if you're eligible to apply for this grant.
Art Gelwicks

Google Earth Browser Plugin - 0 views

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    Google Earth can now be used from a browser plug in!
Thomas Ho

Google Earth *PRO* is FREE for Educators! | Welcome to NCS-Tech! - 0 views

  • Did you know that Google Earth Pro is *FREE* if you are an educator? Yep! Basically, all you have to do is download the PRO trial version at http://earth.google.com and then forward the answers to these questions to GEEC [at] google.com:
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    Follow these instructions to get Google Earth Pro free and what you can do with it.
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    This blogger says Google Pro is free -- follow these instructions and let me know if this works. This post also says what you can do with Google pro -- great post.
yc c

Natural Earth - 12 views

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    Natural Earth solves a problem: finding suitable data for making small-scale maps. In a time when the web is awash in geospatial data, cartographers are forced to waste time sifting through confusing tangles of poorly attributed data to make clean, legible maps. Because your time is valuable, Natural Earth data comes ready-to-use.
David Wetzel

Earth Day Activities: Environmental Uses of Phone Books - 9 views

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    Earth day activities designed to use phone books for a variety of purposes around the home to keep them out of the land fill.
anonymous

Google Earth Design: Photos in Google Earth via Google Docs - 12 views

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    A nice post about how to use Google Docs to be able to put images in a Google Earth Placemark.
anonymous

Introduction - Google Earth User Guide - 0 views

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    I needed to bookmark this for an upcoming workshop. If you want to learn how to use the many features in Google Earth, then THIS is the place to start
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    The official Google Earth User GUide page. There's even a printable version
Ben W

Ten things you don't know about the Earth | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine - 1 views

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    Interesting bits about the Earth explained in an easy to read fashion
Martin Burrett

Geography 4 Kids - 5 views

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    This image-rich site contains a wealth of fascinating geography and Earth science information. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/PSHE%2C+RE%2C+Citizenship%2C+Geography+%26+Environmental
Ted Sakshaug

Review Earth Science Online Exams - Exam Registration - 0 views

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    online diagnostic tests for NYS Earth Science Regents test
Carla Arena

Earth Day 08 - 0 views

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    Tomorrow is Worldbridges Webcastathon http://worldbridges.net/ to celebrate earth day. Get Inspired by Sasha's post and join the team to share your earthly or dream views!
Ben W

Blobs Inside Earth Like Peanut Butter | LiveScience - 0 views

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    New findings suggest the mantle of the earth isn't quite as simple as previously imagined.
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