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A new study has some humorous comments at Mac owners’ expense, but reveals some serious market trends.

Mac users and Mac-loving analysts often use phrases like “the halo-effect” to explain increased sales of Mac computers and OS X due to iPods and iPhones. Now, the stock market site The Street has created a humorous video analysis that offers up a new explanation for this and more commercial phenomena — the “snob”-effect.

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After days of intense speculation, Toshiba today officially announced that it will exit the HD DVD business. According to the press release, Toshiba decided after a thorough review of its overall strategy it will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders.

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A new research study has created a synthetic photosynthetic complex which has a net efficiency of 0.3 percent

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 LCD TV’s were the past, OLED TV’s are the present and Laser TV’s will be the future. Mitsubishi Japan has already developed an experimental 65 inch Laser TV which uses 3 color Laser for illumination. The experimental model is rather thick at 10 inches (app 25.4 cms), surely the end when goes commercial will be much thinner. To make use of Laser technology ‘super wide angular optical engine’ has been developed which miniaturizes the optical system.

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PowerMonkey is a sleek little gadget that provides hours of extra power for portable devices. Think of it as a back-up battery that, once charged, holds its power without leakage for up to a year

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Fujitsu Laboratories in Kawasaki, Japan today revealed its work on a new type of non-volatile ReRAM (Resistive RAM) that combines low power consumption with limited fluctuation of resistance value.

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South Korean scientists clone cat that glows red

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One of the new “young gun” telescopes is the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which is scheduled to launch in 2013 as a replacement to the aging, yet venerable, Hubble. The telescope will be bigger than the Hubble, with a tennis court sized sunshield and massive mirror (6.5 m in diameter) that will unfold, once the telescope reaches its intended L2 orbit. The telescope is infrared optimized, but also offers strong capabilities in the visual light range.

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Researchers prove that neurons in the olfactory bulb are not fixed and slow responding but change on the fly to stimuli

Scientists have traditionally believed that the way our brains process smells via neuron connections in the olfactory bulb was dictated by the anatomy of the olfactory bulb and could only change slowly in response to stimulus.

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A group of researches has succeeded in using only light and sound to create a functional memory component that could be used in future optical computers.

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Researchers at Princeton University have discovered a potentially viable way to use carbon as a replacement substrate material for silicon. The team has figured out how to build transistors on tiny patches of the substrate, called graphene, just a few atomic layers thick. The research indicates that switching speeds could be 10x faster than silicon.

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Jason Cong, UCLA professor and chair of computer science says, “We can get circuits designed with 30 percent less wire length using improved optimization than what we had demonstrated three years ago, based on circuits that were samples from industry. We believe that when you apply these methods to current industry circuits, you will see similar gains. Industry says even 5 percent is very significant.”

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Medical researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Biomicroelectromechanical Systems (BioMEMS) have developed a new method of sampling circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from blood. The problem in the past with sampling these cells is that CTCs are rare in the blood stream and very fragile. Previous methods of analyzing CTCs require pre-processing of large blood samples, which often damaged the CTCs needed for testing.

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The cloak itself is quite small, a mere 10 micrometers in width (PDF). The structure of the device is a simple thin layer of acrylic plastic with a pattern of concentric, two-dimensional rings atop a gold film. The ring pattern creates a negative refraction effect on visible light striking it, bending the plasmons around the object. While the light appears to have passed straight through the material, it has in fact gone around it.

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Using micro-fabrication machinery at Draper Laboratory in Cambridge, the group etched out nano-scale patterns on a bed of silicone elastomer. The patterns, a collection of ridges and grooves, guide the direction of cellular growth to make it uniform rather than random.