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Bottom-pressure recorder Can detect minute changes in water pressure caused by a passing tsunami as small as 0.4 in. (1 cm...
...alternatives based on nanotechnology and holograms have so far failed to materialize. So Cornice Inc. of Colorado is trying to perfect a technology based on the standard hard drive, which has been around the computer business for nearly a half-century. Cornice has shrunk the drive, normally about 10.2 cm by 14.6 cm by 2.5 cm in a standard computer, to a cell phone?friendly 3.6 cm by 4.3 cm by 0.5cm. It removed a lot of the supporting electronic chips, transferring tasks like disc-speed control and memory buffering to other chips on the cell phone. Co-founder...
...Price of a 4-cm platinum-and-diamond Hello Kitty figurine at an Osaka department store
...sets sold, retailers often tack on higher margins. Prices will also be brought down by competition between LCD and plasma screens. At very large sizes, plasma screens?which use electrically charged pixels of gas to create a picture?are cheaper than LCDs, and at sizes over 50 in. (127 cm), your only choice is plasma. But LCD technology, which involves creating a picture by passing light through charged crystals, is catching up. This month in Japan, Sharp wowed the crowd at a technology expo by unveiling a Ferrari-red 65-in. (165-cm) LCD TV, the world's largest. Prices...
...distant future, flat TVs will be hooked up to PCs, which will record movies on a hard-disc drive. And then there's the get-the-neighbors-talking factor. Ritch Wheeler, 33, a sales manager for DaimlerChrysler from Denton, Texas, recently bought a 42-in. (107-cm) plasma TV on the Internet from Gateway for $3,000 and has got an instant popularity boost. "Everybody who walks into the house comments on the TV," he boasts. "They look at it like the piece of wall-mounted art that it's supposed to be. It really does look cool." Wheeler eventually...