Marvell had the first public showing of their new DragonFly NVDrive PCIe SSD caching solution.
And imagine trying to swat one of those monster prehistoric insects like a vulture-sized dragonfly.
Marvell, another manufacturer of flash Memory controllers announced the general availability of the DragonFly platform.
The praying mantis has about 15, 000 and the dragonfly approximately 28, 000, while the worker ant has only 100.
They are hoping that they can create unmanned devices which can move through the air like a dragonfly.
The German company Festo took the wraps off the BionicOpter, a remote-controlled dragonfly robot that can fly in all directions.
The 17.3-inch long dragonfly drone can flutter through the air in any direction, and even hover, just like its biological inspiration.
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The story about the frequency of the dragonfly's wing beat is not the only rationale that is put forward for the technology.
But Thakoon Panichgul put together a cohesive catwalk of seemingly unrelated modern neoprene, a space-age dandelion print, beaded dragonfly embroidery and wallpaper-inspired florals.
Compare these two entries for dragonfly: "Any of a suborder of odonate insects that are larger and stouter than damselflies, " begins Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.
The Dragonfly Effect, authored by Jennifer Aaker and Andy Smith, examines how people are using social media to connect and form groups that create change throughout the globe.
About ten times a year the planes are wheeled out for "Flying Days, " attracting 2, 000 people, with Lowy usually at the stick of a Spitfire or a Dragonfly.
Other images on show include a pygmy seahorse camouflaging itself among coral, a sperm whale investigating the photographer, and a bee-eater bird catching a dragonfly for his mate.
Calling themselves the "Dragonfly Army, " after Mr. Sukrit's nickname, Chinese fans have also teamed up with their Thai counterparts to form powerful online voting blocs that sway the outcome of Thai entertainment awards.
After launching the FireFly probes in 2015, the company seeks to launch a larger craft, named DragonFly, in 2016 which will be able to return between 30 to 60 kgs of material to Earth.
It was not the stiff white dragonfly GlobalFlyer, a delicate construction of carbon fibre with all its interstices filled with fuel, in which in 2005 he had made the first non-stop solo flight round the world.
Check out the gallery for pics of both of these fine new additions to the robotic zoo, along with a few images of the RS Media, Dragonfly, and that Roboquad spiderbot we saw yesterday...
Layers of sound fold one over another, the low beat of a dragonfly's wings joined by the calling of crickets, the clucking of a mother hen with her chicks, and the thrum of a motorcycle passing in the distance.
As the authors of The Dragonfly Effect explain, the dragonfly is unique among insects in that it is the only one that has the ability to propel itself in any direction when its four wings are working together in concert.
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