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Becks eyeing £7m jet to be with family

London, Oct 29 : David Beckham is a true family man at heart. The soccer ace is planning to dish out 7 million pounds on a jet so that he can spend time with his family based in US while he plays in Europe.

The multi-millionaire soccer star is eyeing a top-of-the-range plane so that he can shuttle back and forth to US in between games, or even bring them to Europe.

Pals are urging the 33-year-old footballer to snap up a luxury Bombardier Learjet, and he is already in talks to sign a deal with AC Milan so that he can keep his fitness up while his American league shuts down.

Beckham’s friends believe that the only way for him to keep up with family life is to spend his extra earnings on a private jet.

Red LEDs can significantly reduce wrinkles

London, Oct 29 : While sunlight can cause wrinkles, the red glow from LEDs may help smooth them out, finds a new study.

A light-emitting-diode (LED) is a semiconductor diode that emits light when an electric current is applied in the forward direction of the device, as in the simple LED circuit.

The red LEDs do this by altering the interactions between water and elastic proteins in the skin.

In a new study, Andrei Sommer and Dan Zhu of the University of Ulm in Germany, found how water molecules in the skin interact with different substances.

New Bond babe says she doesn’t need a man

London, October 29: After divorcing twice, latest Bond girl Olga Kurylenko has realised that she doesn’t need a man.

The 28-year-old, who had a tough start sharing a small apartment with eight relatives, revealed she hated being a ‘possession’.

Speaking of her first hubby Cedric Van Mol, the Ukranian-born stunner said that after some time the photographer felt ‘like a brother’.

"He was a good friend so we never fought but you know how it is – at some point it just gets so comfortable – the person becomes more of your brother,” the Daily Star quoted her as saying.

Forgotten film on the Beatles’ first US tour in 1964 found in drawer

London, Oct 29: A rare film on the first US tour of ‘The Beatles’ in 1964 has been found.

Now, scroll in thin air to control your cell phone

London, October 29: Microsoft researchers have developed a system called SideSight that can allow a mobile phone user to control a handset placed on a table by wiggling his/her fingers in the space around it.

The technology was unveiled last week at the User Interface in Software and Technology symposium in Monterey, California.

Alex Butler, a researcher from the Sensors and Devices Group at Microsoft Research Cambridge in the UK, has revealed that the system derives its exceptional ability from infrared sensors that can pick up the movement of fingers up to 10 centimetres away.

"The big advantage of our prototype is the finger does not block any of the screen space," New Scientist magazine quoted Butler as saying.

Gary Glitter makes £100,000 from telly ad

London, Oct 29: English rocker Gary Glitter, convicted for sexual offences, stands to make 100,000 pounds after advertising chiefs used one of his songs for an ad.

The ad, made for computer giant Hewlett Packard, used the pop paedophile’s 1972 hit ‘Do You Wanna Touch Me’ to promote a new touch-screen model.

The song, which is featured in a major marketing campaign with TV adverts being screened all over America, is a 1982 cover version sung by US rocker Joan Jett.

But since it was originally written by 64-year-old Glitter, he gets to collect all the royalties, and if the ad sparks a surge in Internet downloads, he will end up earning a lot.

US campaigners are now demanding Hewlett Packard to remove the advert.

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