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Tuesday, 28-November-2006 18:09:50 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Want to win a GeForce 8800 GTS video card? CoolerMaster are giving you the chance, simply for telling them your opinion of their power supply products. This survey event is held exclusively in Australia and New Zealand area by Cooler Master Inc.
NewScientist cover some cool new inventions, including headphones using your body as the wiring. Just a few millionths of an amp flow through the wearer's body, so there should be no nasty tingling effect.
AMD are apparently launching their 65nm A64 X2 CPUs on the 5th of December, according to Digitimes. The reason behind the launch, which is called earlier-than-expected, is said Dell's considerable consumption of AMD CPUs that caused the CPU shortage at the clone market.
America's Supreme Court will take a look at the problem of junk patents. To land a patent, an invention is not supposed to be obvious to a person of "ordinary skill" in the same field. Making that distinction, however, has proven tricky in cases where pre-existing inventions are combined to create ostensibly new ones.
Here's a cool PC-into-Apple mod. What do you do with a gutted Apple Studio display CRT with no electronics in it?
Xerox address the issue of transient documents, which are printed and then pretty much immediately discarded. Their solution? Paper upon which the printing "disappears" within 16 hours, so it can be re-used. The project is still very much in a laboratory phase, he said. The researchers are still trying to refine the process, both to increase contrast and to extend control over the lifespan of the print process.
A new high-density paper-based storage method is also doing the rounds today, but plenty of people are saying it's bogus.
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