New electronic display to be used on clothes and beer cans

	New Electronic Display to Be Used on Clothes and Beer Cans
...itting devices to the masses. Thus the invention could significantly cut costs by billions of dollars each year. Due to the fact that the organic light emitting devices are very thin and flexible, electronic display screens could be easily created on nearly every material, thus, for example, clothing could, for the first time in history, display specific electronic information. There are various ways of using the th...
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	Plastic Blood and Airplanes Shifting Shapes – Close to Reality?
...sociate silicon with the computer age, the situation may soon change - circuits are printed right onto plastic chips. The flexible circuitry could be applied for developing foldable displays. Imagine electronic pages that you will be able to put into your pocket, solar panels you will drape over tents, or just everyone wearing electronic clothes. Ninety percent of plastics are presently produced from oil but nobody kno...
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	Overcoming the Culture Shock with a Mobile Phone Game
...A games technology expert from the University of Portsmouth, Nipan Minar is leading the development of a new interactive mobile phone game for students in the UK to help them overcome the culture shock. This is expected to be achieved through pictures of students drinking alcohol or a couple kissing in public, integrated into the game - things not allowed in certain cultures. The game is called C-Shock and it is being ...
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	Apple to Become Greener
...The American consumer electronics giant, Apple Inc., as a response to the criticism coming from environmental groups, recently unveiled its enviromental friendly plans. The officials from Apple stated that Chief Executive, Steve Jobs, looks forward to make the company greener than most of its rivals. On the company's official website, Steve Jobs unveiled details regarding the elimination of toxic chemicals from Apple's...
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	Bionic Lens to Create Virtual Vision
...Scientists created a bionic contact lens that can superimpose computer image onto person's vision. The new contact lens has a virtual display with an imprinted electronic circuit and lights. Babak Parviz, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle and his team developed a contact lens, using microfabrication and self-assembly methods that are usually used to produce se...
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	Serial Rapist Who Saw Himself as Porn Star Could Face 1,000 Years' Jail
...gged the victims, who looked like "rag dolls" in the videos. During the police interrogation Xydias said that his victims gave permission to him to do "whatever you want". "They trusted me and they knew I wouldn't hurt them in any way," Xydias told police. Despite the fact that the man fully confessed of his crimes, Xydias showed little regret, Ms Williams said. "This offending is degrading, it is humiliating, it is ...
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	Search Information Will Go Private
...eputy general counsel at Google, the company made this decision after numerous complaints from various Internet privacy defenders and from Google's users too. Marc Rotenberg, executive director at Electronic Privacy Information Center, thinks that this decision would bring a disaster into Internet. According to Mr. Rotenberg, the 24 months' period is too long; but because Google is the main search engine for the ma...
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	Japanese Scientists Work on a Flexible Battery
...A new type of battery invented in Japan, in the University of Waseda. This is a flexible rechargeable battery, based on polymers. The development of this type of battery was conditioned by the permanently developing industry of portable devices, which become smaller and smaller each year. Researches on this device have been conducted for several years, but the scientists, working on this battery are Drs. Hiroyuki Nishide...
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	Google's List of Class-Action Lawsuits
...#`cmbol#?Sfbe!npsf//=0b?'))) "Parker, who represented himself in the suit, publishes online under the name "Snodgrass Publishing Group". One of his publications was an e-book entitled "29 Reasons Not To Be A Nice Guy" and at some time he posted Reason 6 from this book onto a Usenet forum, the worldwide network of discussion groups". Claims: search engine had breached his copyright in the material. Outcome: "Judge Surr...
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	Microsoft Comes up with New Visitor Attracting Strategies
...al algorithm gave too many results and actually annoys its users. Microsoft thought it would be better using some other concepts of searching. They said that they'd develop absolutely ground-breaking new ways of filtering and displaying search results. This invention even got a bit of back-up with a statement that the developers are those, who "didn't even pass calculus." "Algorithm. Meet Humanity." - this was the motto ...
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	Google is out testing new old features
... you and it opens a small floating window in the bottom left corner of the display: As mentioned above, the Google Notebook feature was released in mid May last year and the developers said that the new function was to help people note and remember some sites and searches, which they may not have had time to research the same moment and had to delay it a bit. The Google Notebook feature is available to everyone having...
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	Palm to use Linux platform
...The famous smartphone producer, Palm, is to use a new software platform that will be based on Linux. The company's officials announced Palm's new operating system platform while on a meeting in New York. During a discussion with the analysts, Palm's officials talked on the business strategy of the company but they refused to state anything regarding the recent rumors of a possible buyout. The smartphone maker for along...
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	Fake Nature of a Rolex is Hidden in Details
...hat gives a chance to view the inner life of a watch. If you see a Rolex with a see-though case back, be careful - it's a replica. No skeleton dials: Only fake Rolex watches feature skeleton dials displaying the moving inner mechanisms of a timepiece. Even if you'd like to have a Rolex with a skeleton dial, it is possible only in case of a fake watch. No rubber parts: Authentic Rolex watches do no include even minor p...
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	Google buys DoubleClick, Microsoft still too far from online ads
...wice as much as it paid for YouTube last year. Google people consider the fact that DoubleClick did not become Microsoft to be very important too. The $3.1 billion paid for the DoubleClick, based in New York, made Google one step (and a huge one) closer to becoming an online ad tycoon. DoubleClick is an ad house, which makes special software for online advertisement. The company has many large connections with web publ...
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