Stories on metres

UC: Units Converter

Downloads Convert from metres to yards, kilograms to pounds, atmospheres to pascals, or even barleycorns to metres. UC: Units Converter might just be for you. This easy-to-use Windows utility presents a simple GUI with more than 600 common (and not so common...

15 December 2005, 12:33 > More matches in Downloads

Size up your screen

Reviews Min.viewing distance (in metres) Max.viewing distance (in metres) Min.viewing distance (in metres) Max.viewing distance (in metres) Most viewers feel comfortable sitting away from the set at a distance that's between three and six times the width...

14 May 2005, 21:01 > More matches in Reviews

Dive Planner

Downloads Also shows an overview of entered dives.Work in feet or metres, plan up to 99 repetitive dives, 10 - 50 % O2Tables included for AIR, Nitrox 32 & Nitrox 36. Click on either image to download an evaluation version, it is fully functional except you...

17 April 2001, 8:00 > More matches in Downloads

Photos: Sizing up Chicago's green high rises

News That and 400,000 square metres of retail space in the There are now more than 250 green roofs comprising 93,000 square metres in Chicago.Credit: Conservation Design Forum Chicago is set to claim one of the world's largest retail spaces and

Tags: retail, story, views, conference

14 November 2007, 10:06 > More matches in News

Photos: Drive and fly in the AirCar

News This view from above the AirCar show a wing span of about 9 metres and two rotary engines. When completely folded, the rear wings span 2 metres wide. Need to get to another city really fast? Just drive your car to the nearest airport, take off...

Tags: credit, car, auto, city

25 March 2008, 9:29 > More matches in News

Photos: Dubai's 'dynamic tower' in motion

News Dubai's 'dynamic tower', according to the firm, will have 80 floors and stand 420 metres tall. That price would put the largest of the villas, measuring just under 1,200 square metres, at just under $39m, while the smallest of the apartments, at a...

Tags: press, motion, conference, energy

2 July 2008, 10:18 > More matches in News

Hands-on with iLuv's i703 FM transmitter: Loud and clear, sir

Crave As with all transmitters, if the receiving device is more than a couple of inches away then you get a little hiss, but this is more than acceptable.iLuv's transmitter worked well up to several metres away from our receiver (the lovely Samsung YP...

Tags: iluv, car, radio, stereo

30 May 2007, 11:00 > More matches in Crave

Photos: Competition shines at Solar Decathalon

News They built a house according to the competition's specifications -- sized about 74 square metres -- but the design allows it to be expanded to 204 square metres, the size of a typical family home, according to the project's student lead, Chad...

15 October 2007, 11:54 > More matches in News

WaveRoller rides the power of undersea waves

Crave The plate in the latest prototype measures 4x4 metres and can generate ten to 13 kilowatts of power. Ideally, the four-metre-high plates will be anchored in water ten to 12 metres deep. That's the idea behind WaveRoller.

25 April 2008, 12:44 > More matches in Crave

News.blog: Here is my jetpack

News A dual-fuel capable jetpack has a longer flight time -- the full 75 seconds, as opposed to 45 seconds -- and can go faster -- 75mph compared with 65mph, giving it the ability to go twice as far on one tank -- but that's still only about just over...

Tags: flight, fuel, metres, richard branson

25 January 2008, 9:10 > More matches in News

Fujifilm FinePix Z5fd review

Reviews A face must be within roughly six metres, and beyond that it starts to struggle. Z5fd's limited range of up to just over three metres -- wide angle, auto ISO. Granted, it does come in an eye-melting raspberry red and a sophisticated mocha brown in...

Editor's rating   6.8

Tags: fujifilm, face, budget, scene

26 October 2007, 14:20 > More matches in Reviews

Photos: Tata's budget Nano car

News The four-door (plus tail gate) car is taller than it is wide: 1.6 metres tall by 1.5 metres across. From front to back, it measures 3.1 metres. You've undoubtedly heard of the iPod nano, and may even have the tiny music player tucked in a pocket or...

14 January 2008, 9:48 > More matches in News

Wi-Fi used for location services

News Morgan adds that GPS typically only locates things within a few hundred metres, whereas the Wi-Fi location system can get within 20 to 40 metres of an object. Software that uses Wi-Fi signals to pinpoint locations better than satellite-based global...

21 June 2005, 11:10 > More matches in News

Photos: A satellite spy in the skies

News According to the NRO Web site, the resolution of Corona's images was about two metres at its sharpest, 170 metres at its worst. For all the Pentagon's crowing about its success in hitting a defunct spy satellite with a missile last week, it's had...

Tags: field, earth, air, spy

28 February 2008, 9:32 > More matches in News

Photos: X Prize's rocket fest

News Armadillo Aerospace's MOD, which is four metres tall, is a computer-controlled liquid oxygen rocket vehicle. The one on the left flew 3,800 metres on 18 September 2005, on Hoag's 18th birthday. Raptor flew vertically to 12,000 metres in less than a...

Tags: force, racing, fly, mod

30 October 2007, 10:16 > More matches in News