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Singapore bans Microsoft's Video Game for Sex Scene: Paper

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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore has banned a Microsoft Corp video game which contains a scene showing a human woman and an alien woman kissing and caressing each other, a local newspaper reported on Thursday. The Straits Times said "Mass Effect" -- a highly anticipated futuristic space adventure game from Microsoft -- was banned by Singapore's Media Development Authority. Read more

Posted on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:23:16 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Disney to launch Cellphone Service in Japan: Paper

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TOKYO (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co, the No. 2 U.S. entertainment company, plans to launch mobile phone service in Japan next spring offering customers animated content, the Nikkei business daily said on Sunday. Read more

Posted on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:55:03 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Super Paper Mario for the Nintendo Wii Review

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Futurelooks published a review of the Super Paper Mario for the Nintendo Wii game.

Quote from the review: "When you think of Nintendo, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Even better, who’s the first person to come to mind? I think of the short, pudgy, mustached, sunburnt, blonde loving, Read more

Posted on Thu, 8 Nov 2007 15:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Visitors to U.S. Newspaper Web Sites rise: Study

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The number of people visiting U.S. newspaper Web sites rose 3.7 percent during the third quarter, according to an industry group, even as their print editions reported lower advertising sales. Read more

Posted on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 04:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Bridgestone shows new .29mm Flexible Color e-Paper

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Bridgestone shows their latest flexible color e-paper this week at the FPD International in Yokohama, Japan.

In 2006 Bridgestone showed a flexible color e-paper that only supported two colors. One year later Bridgestone managed to develop a flexible color e-paper with 4,096 colors. Read more

Posted on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Future may be murky for Yahoo and Newspaper Alliance

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By Robert MacMillan

NEW YORK (Reuters) - An alliance between hundreds of newspaper sites and Yahoo Inc has helped publishers increase advertising, but it will saddle them with unproven technology and costs them some independence and flexibility. Read more

Posted on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

OMTP Paper Recommends All Mobile Phones Use Micro USB

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Open mobile Terminal Platform (OMTP) announced recently that after consulting with manufacturers in the phone industry they are recommending all mobile phone manufacturers standardize on micro USB as the connector for charging and synchronizing mobile devices.

This would be a great thing for mobile device users as we would then only need one charger to be able to charge or power and manufactures mobile handsets. Nokia was one of the main manufacturers that pushed for this recommendation. Read more

Posted on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:32:22 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Stones demand Apology from Swedish Papers

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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Guitarist Keith Richards has demanded that two Swedish newspapers apologize to the Rolling Stones and their fans in Sweden for stinging reviews of the band's performance at a concert in Gothenburg. Read more

Posted on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 03:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Airlines Body bids Farewell to Paper Tickets

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GENEVA (Reuters) - The global airlines body IATA said on Monday it had placed its last order for paper tickets, clearing the way for air travel to be based entirely on electronic ticketing from June 1 next year. Read more

Posted on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 09:38:44 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

French Paper reveals Harry Potter's Fate

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PARIS (Reuters) - French newspaper Le Parisien has revealed the fates of four of the main protagonists in the final instalment of the Harry Potter book series. Read more

Posted on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:08:16 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

First 14.1 inch flexible Color E-Paper by LG Philips

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LG Philips has developed the world's first 14.1 inch color screen that is as flexible as paper.

Several companies work on e-paper. The new LG Philips one marks the first in A4 size. It can display up to 4096 colors and the displayed content stays on, when the power is switched off. Read more

Posted on Mon, 14 May 2007 11:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

NEC shrinks PaPeRo Robot - meet PaPeRo-mini

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NEC developed a smaller version of their PaPeRo robot dubbed PaPeRo-mini.

NEC introduced the conversational robot PaPeRo back in 2004. The new smaller version features also speech recognition and speech synthesis as the large PaPeRo.

PaPeRo measures 385x248x245mm. The new PaPeRo-mini has measurements of 250×170x179mm.

NEC's aim with the PaPeRo-mini was to miniaturize the conversation module. Read more

Posted on Tue, 8 May 2007 05:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

NVIDIA 8800 Ultra Paper Launches Today

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Today NVIDIA has taken a route that they normally don’t take in an effort to stop the leaks that normally plague the launch of their new products. To protect the specs of the new NVIDIA 8800 Ultra they have no cards available to buy, but the cards should be available around May 15th.

The new 8800 Ultra will have features and specifications fairly close to those of the 8800 GTX. The reason for that is that the 8800 Ultra is based on the 8800 GTX with some tweaks to allow for performance higher than what the GTX can attain. Read more

Posted on Wed, 2 May 2007 15:44:28 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Racing Car Center Lock Toilet Paper Holder

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If you are a racing fan or a general car nut next time you have to make a pit stop in the bathroom this toilet paper holder may make for an interesting change. If you need to change the roll you can time yourself to see how long your pit stop takes.

The device measures in at 7.67 inches long and 5.12 inches high. The holder is CNC-machined from billet aluminum and the base is stamped steel. I’m not sure if the TP holder would hold the double rolls or not from the looks of it. Read more

Posted on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:43:59 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Super Paper Mario for Wii Review

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We already voted Super Paper Mario for the Nintendo Wii into the top 5 must have product releases for April. IGN published a review of the new Mario game already with video.

Quote from the review:
"You should buy this game for a number of reasons. It's a Mario game and for some that will be enough. It's also one part platformer and another part RPG, successfully dabbling in both genres. It controls tightly and uses the Wii remote in a smart manner without stepping into forced territory. Read more

Posted on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 07:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Magnetic Printer Paper Lets Your Email Hang Around

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I’m not sure why I haven’t seen magnetic paper before, it’s a great idea. We all have things we print from our computers that we want to keep. Typically we put a tack through them and hang them on the wall.

This paper works in normal ink jet printers, but has a magnetic backing that allows you to stick the printed document to most metal objects like filing cabinets, fridges or magnetic white erase boards. Read more

Posted on Fri, 2 Mar 2007 13:00:00 CST | by Shane McGlaun

Rainbow Technology Stores Hundreds of Gigabytes on an A4 Size Page of Paper

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Paper may be making a comeback into the office environment after loosing ground to the paperless electronic office. How you ask? A student from Kerala in India (south-west coast) has developed a method of storing data on plain sheets of A4 sized paper.

Before anyone starts making jokes, I’m not talking about handwriting. The data is placed onto the paper in high-density geometric shapes. The technology is called Rainbow Versatile Disc or RVD and can store a whopping 90 to 450GB of data and can even playback video clips in addition to storing written data. Read more

Posted on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:12:20 CST | by Shane McGlaun

Fly a Virtual Paper Plane with the Sony PS3 SIXAXIS

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Sony published a new section on its Sony Playstation 3 site in Japan showing a Sony PS3 SIXAXIS controller in virtual action.

The neat little simulation on the Playstation 3 site shows a virtual paper plane. You can click on each of the six directional icons and see the respective movement you have to perform with controversial SIXAXIS controller.. Read more

Posted on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 08:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

E-Paper Video Demo - The Future of Newspapers, Baby!

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We're certainly no stranger to cool e-paper concepts, so this concept is certainly not new, but what is worth noting about this one from Plastic Logic, aside from the fact that there's actually a video showing the paper in action, is that it's actually being shown in a useful application, namely as a newspaper.

Plastic Logic is all about being the leader in electronic/plastic innovation. From their site: "Plastic Logic is developing and exploiting world-class technology for manufacturing printed plastic electronic circuits. These circuits are constructed using solution processing and direct-write techniques and consist of transistors and other components that are produced from polymers and a variety of other materials." Read more

Posted on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 08:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

I4U Gadget Model Wallpaper Now Available for Download

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After one year of presenting a hot Gadget Photo Model each month we finally are able to offer you free Wallpaper downloads of the current I4U Gadget Model Cassandra. I know we should have done it earlier.

We currently offer the wallpaper in 1600x1200px, 1280x1024px, 1280x960px, 1152x864px, 1024x768px, 800x600px and 640x480px resolutions.
If you need a different resolution, please email us.

Visit our Wallpaper Download page now. Read more

Posted on Sun, 13 Aug 2006 09:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Tiny USB Paper Shredder

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This USB gadget is great for shredding post-it notes. After you finished a task you can get pleasure by leaning back and shred the post-it note the task had been written down on.

Also a satisfying experience should to shred a business card from a potential customer who bought at another company after being a pain for months.
The USB shredder has a throat size of 123mm. A Din A6 paper fits. An A4-sized paper you need to fold first. Read more