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Coming up on World Tech Update this week RIM restores BlackBerry service, Apple's iPhone 4S shows up around the world including China's gray market, Sony's Playstation Vita gets a US launch date, Donald Trump digitally signs an e-book he penned and Fujitsu hosts a research open house.
Coming up on World Tech Update this week were at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show where Microsoft talked about the future of Kinect, Intel pushed Ultrabooks, Samsung showed off TVs with motion and voice control, Sony packed its press conferences with celebrities like Kelly Clarkson and Will Smith, a 10,000 watt iPod dock pumped out music and a hard drive survived 1,000,000 volts. To find out more follow us on Facebook at facebook.com/worldtechupdate.
Coming up on World Tech Update this week, protestors rally against SOPA and PIPA, Yahoo's Yang resigns, Sony teases a universal remote gadget, the heated battle between Apple and Samsung rages on, the AR Drone 2 gets easier to fly and a small company makes a big splash at CES.
Russian arms manufacturer Lobaev demonstrated its record-breaking ultra long-range SVLK-14 'Sumrak' bolt action sniper rifle, in the Russian town of Tarussa. Earlier in October, Russian marksman Andrei Ryabinski reportedly set a new world record after hitting a 1-metre square target placed at 13,812 feet away, or 2.6 miles with the Sumrak, which means 'Twilight' in Russian.
This is the B-Droid, a brand new quadcopter drone with a special extension which is designed to polinate flowers. That's right, the long, metal rod with a fluffy yellow fabric is designed to carry pollen and transfer it to blooming flowers in the spring in light of the world's declining bee population. Begun in 2012, the project is financed by the National Center for Research and Development in Poland. Scientists at the Warsaw University of Technology showcased their B-Droid drone prototype at their lab on Friday. As the name suggests, the B-Droid acts as an artificial honeybee which helps out in the pollination process. Scientists are able to control the drone remotely and can pilot the quadcopter to precisely deliver pollen to many different types of flowers. Various versions of the drones exist to pollinate different types of flowers with widely varying shapes and sizes. Scientists indicate the type of flower they want to pollinate and the B-Droid identifies the appropriate flowers in the field before transfering pollen to that particular species. Could this be the answer to declining bee populations?
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