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...Frontier Silicon, based in Watford, England, is also trying to expand what phones can do. Frontier is building a chip that allows a cell phone to double as a TV, so that a user could watch, say, sports highlights while waiting for a train. The chip, called Chorus, receives broadcast signals from television operators, digitally encoded so they can't be intercepted. That system is a threat to mobile operators, because broadcast signals bypass cellular networks. A phone owner could receive video programming without having to buy it from a mobile network provider...
...Frontier is providing the chip to Samsung, which is building it into a mobile device for the Korean market. Beginning in the first quarter of next year, several broadcasters, including the Korean Broadcasting System, will start airing programs tailored to it. "Within the next five years, the major new killer application on mobile phones will be the reception of digital TV and radio,'' says Frontier founder and chief executive Anthony Sethill. And there's more in store. Frontier is adding digital recording to a chip it makes for televisions, so that it acts like a personal video recorder...
...thigh down are getting back on their feet a lot faster these days, thanks to the Rheo Knee. The new prosthetic joint, developed in Iceland, is designed to learn the nuances of an individual's movements and adjust itself. An innovative control module--made up of sensors, a computer chip and software--reacts instantaneously to changes in the wearer's gait, so there's less strain on the hips and back...
...between 2.0 and 3.5 and show the potential to succeed in honors classes. The AVID classes teach them how to take notes and study for exams more effectively, and provide tutoring. Samir Webster, who came to Huron last year with pretty good middle school grades but an antiacademic chip on his shoulder the size of his blowout Afro, didn't apply himself until AVID class changed his attitude. He now has a B average. "I used to watch TV, play video games or hang with my friends rather than do homework," he says. "But now homework comes first...
...REAR-PROJECTION TVs New chip-based technologies have spawned three kinds of TVs that are almost as good as flat panels but cheaper...