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Much like graphene, carbon nanotubes seem to be hitting on all cylinders in the lab. Of course, we can count on one hand finger how many instances we’ve seen them making a difference in “the real world,” but we aren’t giving up hope just yet. Researchers from a cadre of universities have come together to solve one of the most nagging issues when dealing with carbon nanotubes — in prior studies, the bundling of these tubes resulted in a marked decrease in strength, which in turn led to a profuse outpouring of tears. But thanks to a new approach, which mixes in a nondescript polymer, they’ve managed to conjure up a “a high performance fiber that is remarkably tough, strong, and resistant to failure.” More specifically, the resulting material is said to be “tougher than Kevlar, meaning it has a higher ability to absorb energy without breaking.” Notably, this material isn’t stronger than Kevlar, as it’s resistance to failure isn’t quite up to snuff, but you can bet the gurus working on this won’t stop until it is. And then, friends, we will have officially arrived in The Future.

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New Zealanders have been enjoying Epic Games’ visual stunner for a few hours now, as per usual, but the past has caught up with the present, so to speak. Infinity Blade is now available on the US iTunes store for both the iPad and the iPhone. Drop the gun, give the mutants a rest, and pick up the sword — cost of entry is $5.99 and the file size is a whopping 318.3MB. What are you waiting for?

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It has been awhile since I have seen Alexa add any new features to their site but this is a pretty nice update. I noticed it when I went to take a look at the graph for CyberNet News and saw that they have several new options available.

The first and probably most obvious option that came to my attention was the ability to compare the traffic of 5 different sites on one single graph. That is a feature that helped make Alexaholic so popular which is probably why Alexa felt the need to add it to their own site.

The other really noticeable feature is the “smoothing” that you can enable on the graph. There is a little slider on the top so that you can make the graph appear much more fluid, instead of having a lot of jagged peaks. I tried to analyze how this works and it looks like for each point it is taking the traffic for the previous day, current day, and next day and averaging those together in order to get the “current day’s” traffic. It isn’t nearly as accurate but if you want a trend to be a little more noticeable then it might help.

The last thing that I noticed was that you can view charts for the last 7-days. Before the minimum length was 3-months but if you were clever enough you could alter the URL to view 7-day graphs. Now they let you do it with just the click of a button.

While I don’t believe that the Alexa rankings are very accurate I still think that they can be helpful when trying to recognize a site’s growth. Another unique way to monitor the traffic of a site is the service that Ashley recently discussed called Compete. Both sites provide rough estimates at best so it is important that you don’t get discouraged by the results they provide.

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Sebastian Merchel, the same bloke responsible for the SweetSpotter, is back, and he’s out to invade your SO’s stocking. The above pictured AR-Tee is exactly what it purports to be: a t-shirt with ingrained augmented reality superpowers. Simply pop one on (in your size, naturally), connect your webcam, and visit the link down there in the source. With a couple of mouse clicks, you’ll be watching content on your chest, becoming the star of this year’s holiday party and blowing grandma’s mind. Simultaneously. Grab yours today for the tidy sum of €27.90, or around 37 of America’s strained, deflated dollars. Demonstration vid is just past the break, just so you know.

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CNET Car Tech looked back at all the cars reviewed throughout 2010, and chose the top 5. We have also put together lists of top tech cars in other categories.

Originally posted at The Car Tech blog