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...triumvirate of Sergey Brin, Eric Schmidt and Larry Page to sit for a talk around a table covered with Lego pieces, for which they have a known fondness, during a break at Google's recent sales conference in San Francisco. Page, who as a student built an ink-jet printer out of Lego bricks, is snapping pieces together to make a kind of endlessly ascending staircase; Brin is working on a robot. Schmidt seems too grownup for this...
...DIED. AENNE BURDA, 96, founder of the Burda-Moden publishing house and one of post-war Germany's most prominent businesswomen; in Offenburg, Germany. Born Anna Magdalene Lemminger, she married printer Franz Burda in 1931. The first issue of Burda-Moden appeared in 1950, bringing high fashion to the public and later offering clothing patterns so women could make their own fashionable attire. The publishing house, which later expanded to include titles such as entertainment magazine Bunte and the newsweekly Focus, is now one of Germany's biggest conglomerates; the company has been rechristened Hubert Burda Media after Burda...
...smarts in SmartWrap come from flat circuitry called OLEDs (organic light-emitting diodes), which are tattooed onto the plastic by an ink-jet printer and can function either as a light source or a computer display. When used on an exterior wall, OLEDs could transform the look of your house in seconds. "You could have a blue house one day and a green house the next day," says Timberlake. "You could have a camouflage pattern or political signage." Insulation is provided by gel-filled pockets between two layers of SmartWrap; power can be supplied by solar cells and stored...
...MP3s to the handset, you need a MiniSD card. A new kind of memory chip for small devices like phones, it's compatible with standard SD. Since it generally ships with an SD adapter, it will fit into any SD card slot you might have on your computer or printer. (If you don't have one, you can get a USB card reader for around $20.) In goes the card, and an icon pops up, under My Computer in Windows or right on the desktop in a Mac. Drag songs you want to hear to the icon, then slip...
...more recent Kodak dye-sub printers, like the Photo Printer 500 and the Printer Dock Plus Series 3, can accept a Kodak Wi-Fi card ($100, sold separately) that will allow the camera to print wirelessly. Unlike other wireless printing products, I found this to be remarkably easy, something I'd recommend to technophobes and techies alike...