Starline NB1000 netbook’s giant, invisible touchpad is the only thing it’s got going for it
Aug 15, 2009 Technology
Starline — a Hong Kong -based PC manufacturer — has unleashed the netbook you see above, the NB1000. This 10-incher’s got all the standard, yawn-inducing specs — an Intel Atom N270 CPU, 1GB of RAM, a 160GB HDD, three USB ports, plus ethernet and VGA ports. The thing that makes this little guy stand out
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Invisibility cloak modified to make you see things that aren’t there
Jul 8, 2009 Technology
The ever-evolving tale of the invisibility cloak makes us want to hang our heads in our hands sometimes, so fraught with frustrations does it seem. Well, another chapter’s been added to the tome: researchers at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology have devised a way to extend the invisibility principle, allowing an illusion to sit in place of the invisible object. So, say you wanted to use an invisibility cloak to mask the presence of your bottle of beer on the table, the new concept — or ’shroud of lies’ as we call it — would enable you to make it appear that there was a glass of water sitting there, in place of the beer.
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