tech.yahoo.com - 1/16/2009
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - A new light-bending material has brought scientists one step closer to creating a cloaking device that could hide objects from sight. Beyond possible military applications, it also might have a very practical use by making mobile communications clearer, they said on ...
tech.yahoo.com - 1/15/2009
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Regular mobile phone use does
not appear to increase a person's risk of getting...
a type of cancer called melanoma of the eye, German researchers said on Tuesday. The study involving about 1,600 people detected no link between ...
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Study sees no eye cancer risk from mobile phones ...
tech.yahoo.com - 1/21/2009
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HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia (NOK1V.HE) and its main
cell phone rivals have started to slash prices as...
demand falls and retailers cut inventories after lackluster holiday sales. Consumer electronics demand slumped in the key Christmas season , and ...
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Pricing fears rise in shrinking cell phone market ...
tech.yahoo.com - 1/9/2009
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The craze for touch-screen
gadgets, sparked by Apple Inc's popular iPhone , is...
raising worries that a whole generation of consumer electronics will be out of the reach of the blind. Motown icon Stevie Wonder and other advocates ...
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Touch-screen gadgets alienate blind (Reuters) by ...
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Cloaking device puts the kibosh on cellphone inteference
Engadget Mobile —
... There has been plenty of research into cloaking devices, but while scientists are still working their way towards the visible light spectrum they seem to be having the best luck with microwaves. Most recently, a new metamaterial made from over 10,000 individual pieces of fiberglass has been used to cloak a bump on a flat mirrored surface -- the material prevents microwaves from being scattered, giving the RADAR (we're guessing it's a RADAR) the impression that the surface is flat. This has many possible applications, such as cloaking sources of interference to ...
Cloaking device puts the kibosh on cellphone inteference
Engadget —
... There has been plenty of research into cloaking devices, but while scientists are still working their way towards the visible light spectrum they seem to be having the best luck with microwaves. Most recently, a new metamaterial made from over 10,000 individual pieces of fiberglass has been used to cloak a bump on a flat mirrored surface -- the material prevents microwaves from being scattered, giving the RADAR (we're guessing it's a RADAR) the impression that the surface is flat. This has many possible applications, such as cloaking sources of interference to ...
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