Melbourne, October 15 : Aussie researchers will soon be exploring the possibility of installing solar panels in people’s clothing to generate electricity.
The study will be one of the research projects that are being funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC), an agency of the federal government.
The funding will be used to study everything from protecting the Tasmanian Devil from the deadly facial tumour disease to maintaining public health during heatwaves.
There will also be a study about the interactions between humans and robots.
Washington, Oct 15 : Women who’re not comfortable revealing their age should stay miles away from University of Illinois-developed computer software that reveals a person''s age just by looking at his or her face.
The software, developed at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, could analyze an image of your face to verify your identity or run a commercial according to your interest.
"Age measurement is very difficult. If you use the face to estimate age we can really get the apparent age, or how old a person looks," Discovery News quoted Thomas Huang, the lead developer, as saying.
For the purpose of providing the exclusive Seagate Momentus 5400.6 hard drives for the Acer Aspire and TravelMate professional laptops, Acer and Seagate have joined hands to lend support to each other.
After the grand success of the Prada handset, LG Electronics has again joined hands with Prada Group to roll out the second LG Prada handset by the end of this year (2008).
Knighted Prada II, which is almost similar to the earlier version, features a full metallic ‘QWERTY’ keyboard, which slides out from under the handset.
Along with on-screen call and hang-up buttons, Prada II comes packed with astounding functions such as 3G compatibility with video calling and 7.2Mbps HSDPA, full HTML browser, 5 megapixel camera with Schneider-Kreuznach certified lens, video calling and WiFi accessibility.
San Francisco - Global computer sales from July to September grew 15 per cent from 2007, but tougher economic conditions around the world meant that many of the 80.6 million devices sold were less expensive notebooks, according to research issued Tuesday by Gartner.
Growth was slowest in the United States, where sales increased 4.8 per cent from the third quarter of 2007.
"The US home market saw definite softness," said Gartner analyst Mika Kitagawa, while the Asia Pacific region was impacted by slowing PC sales in China. "The global PC market finally felt the impact from global economic downturn."
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For the purpose of providing the exclusive Seagate Momentus 5400.6 hard drives for the Acer Aspire and TravelMate professional laptops, Acer and Seagate have joined hands to lend support to each other. 
After the grand success of the Prada handset, LG Electronics has again joined hands with Prada Group to roll out the second LG Prada handset by the end of this year (2008). 
