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Displays have been on display in Tokyo - and the latest flat-panel screen technology is getting thinner and more flexible. This so-called ‘e-paper’ not only allows users to read the latest edition of a favourite news paper electronically, it also means pages in e-books can be changed, or documents amended much more easily than using a traditional pen. And, most importantly, the technology saves real paper - and therefore, real trees.

Tags: display, e-paper, electronics, panel, screen

Four Hightower students being investigated after scores were changed for 60
Four high school students are being investigated on suspicion of breaking into the Fort Bend Independent School District’s computer network and changing the grades of at least 60 students, according to court documents and school officials. Continue reading »

Tags: hackers, school, students, Texas, USA

Sony Corp prototyped a fuel-cell system small enough to fit in one hand. The size of the system is about 50 × 30mm, which was realized by combining a fuel cell, Li-polymer secondary battery, control circuit and so forth.

This is the first time that Sony revealed the prototype of a practical fuel-cell system including, for example, a secondary battery and control circuit. The company exhibited the evaluation results of the system at Small Fuel Cells 2008, which takes place from April 30 to May 2, 2008, in Atlanta, Ga. Continue reading »

Tags: battery, cell, hybrid, mobile, Nikkei Electronics, prototyte, Sony

Americans don’t like to lose wars—which makes sense, since we have so little practice with it. Of course, a lot depends on how you define just what a war is. There are shooting wars—the kind that test our mettle and our patriotism and our resourcefulness and our courage—and those are the kind at which we excel. But other struggles test those qualities too. What else was the Great Depression or the space race or the construction of the railroads or the eradication of polio but a massive, often frightening challenge that we decided as a culture we ought to rise up and face? If we indulge in a bit of chest-thumping and flag-waving when the job is done, well, we earned it. Continue reading »

Tags: climate, deterioration, Global Warming, Time.com, USA

Parachutes have come a long way in the last few decades. They’re easier to steer and a great deal less likely to go wrong. So it takes a certain amount of nerve to plunge 2,000ft relying on a “chute designed more than 500 years ago. Continue reading »

Tags: Daily Mail, discovery, Geneva, Leonardo da Vinci, parachute, Swiss, Switzerland