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  New Electronic Display to Be Used on Clothes and Beer Cans
...One of the latest inventions in the field of light emitting devices might change the way people light their homes and design clothes. The device represents a thin film of plastic able to conduct electricity and create solar power. Scientists working on the international project are looking forward to bring the organic light emitting devices to the masses. Thus the invention could significantly cut costs by billions of ...
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  Overcoming the Culture Shock with a Mobile Phone Game
...ty 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 developed by Nipan Minar, who himself arriv...
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  Plastic Blood and Airplanes Shifting Shapes – Close to Reality?
...Plastic is everywhere and in the nearest future it may even float through our veins. The nature of plastic allows scientists to create a molecule similar to hemoglobin, the cells responsible for carrying oxygen. Plastic blood will provide a lot of advantages - it will be more painless to get, it will be easy to carry and store it. Although plastic is widely used in aircraft manufacturing, scientists work on the develop...
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  Google is out testing new old features
...es, but our team had it always in nearly 100 different queries, as, for example vacation, politics, science, service, however and so on. One could actually 'note' the 'click here' query. Here is a picture of a logged in search for the query 'vacation': And here is a picture of the same query, though in the signed-out state: When we press the 'Note this' button, we see that Google has 'Duly noted' the query fo...
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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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  What words are most often frontpaged on digg?
... Word Category Nr. Pages Nr. stories (approx.) Stories frontpaged (pages) Nr. of stories frontpaged (approx.) Most popular story dugg, times Story title URL Game Hardware 2444 36660 155 2325 4862 Guy selling every NES game ever made on eBay!! With pics ...
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  Computers of the Future to be Made from Pencil Trace
...Researchers of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have conducted special experiments that could lead to a major discovery how to use graphene as a heir to copper and silicon presently used in nanoelectronics. Graphene represents a sheet of carbon that is just one-atom-thick . It was made by scientists in 2004 with the help of common clear adhesive tape bought in a store. Most pencils use graphite that is made up of many gra...
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  Virtual Policemen to Purify the Chinese Internet
...h as propaganda of oppositional ideas or the ones that might seem suspicious to the two police officers. On-line gambling is also regarded as an illegal activity. Every 30 minutes users will see a picture on their displays. Pictures will depict a man or a woman on a motorcycle, in a car or on foot. A click on those pictures will redirect users on the web-site of Beijing City Administration, department for public securi...
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  Comments from Digg
....com, Netscape.com, Shoutwire.com and the like, would start a comments, or quotes, section, where users would promote the comments from the entire network. This post should be considered as a sequel of the upper-mentioned, as it should become an example, of what we were talking about. This is a list of some comments, selected from several posts some two or three weeks ago. Actually it doesn't matter, when the comments we...
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  Bionic Lens to Create Virtual Vision
...nic 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 semiconductor chips. S...
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  The Amount of Digital Information Reached 281 Exabytes (281 Billion Gigabytes)
...e IT sector will be highly responsible for keeping the information about users private. "We discovered that only about half of your digital footprint is related to your individual actions - taking pictures, sending e-mails, or making digital voice calls," said IDC senior vice president, John Gantz. "The other half is what we call the 'digital shadow' - information about you - names in financial records, names on ma...
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  Serial Rapist Who Saw Himself as Porn Star Could Face 1,000 Years' Jail
...A serial rapist was pleaded guilty to 25 cases of rape and 61 cases of sex offence against 11 women in the period between 1991 and 2006. A court was heard that Australian Glen Iris chef John Xydias saw himself as a porn star when he raped his unconscious victims while filming the assault. After the police found a number of hidden sex tapes, the offender has made, Xydias confessed to the committed crimes. Four of the fil...
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  Japanese Temple Offers High-Tech Grave
... his ID card to dial-up the gravestones and urns that include the ashes of his ancestors. Then a special machine resembling a library stack transports the urns from behind the altars, while music and pictures of the ones that passed away accompanies the process. The images are displayed on a TV monitor. "Looking at their pictures, I actually talk a lot more to my deceased parents and sister. Unlike the usual graveston...
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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
... function MLnkMk(str) { s=''; for(i=0;i#iuuq;00xxx/uifsfhjtufs/dp/vl031170140280hpphmf`xjot`vtfofu`dpqzsjhiu`dbtf#!!ubshfu>#`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 wo...
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