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British Library’s new storage facility will employ Robotic librarians.

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Why do we say, these days nobody is still caring about paper books? In my mind, the ever-developing digital storage devices will never completely take the place of paper books. And we do need to store books, especially valued old books in a better way. The British Library has built up a new Additional Storage Building (ASB) that adopts seven robotic cranes to retrieve books. Seven million books are hoped to be stored in the new library. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Solar Folding Fan

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What impresses us most in the movies that show the daily life of the British aristocracy is the magnificent feather folding fan, which is also an elegant hand held accessory to a lady of quality in modern times. As it integrates the traditional crafted fan with solar charged light technology, the solar folding fan is therefore a delicate decoration which can glow in the evening.

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Animal envelop

Johnson Bank plants to sell these postage-paid air-mail envelopes in British. It’s just like standard envelopes while folding. But, you gonna get a “animal” after unfolding. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Under-water power plant assembled by buoys

AWS Ocean Energy, a British based company, has unveiled a project of under-water power plant. The unique point of this project is that it use buoys rather than turbines.
The buoy is able to harness wave energy utilize the pressure changing while waving. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Wireless charger

A British company called Splashpower has come up with technology that can charge multiple devices at once by simply placing the gadgets on a mousepad-like surface. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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