Al Gore’s Office.jpg

Al Gore’s Office.jpg

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Wow, love the screens, but can anyone really work in an office with THIS much stuff? Talk about piling!

Pant-ripping sillyness

First A4 colour e-paper unfurled

South Korea’s LG Philips LCD has developed the world’s first A4-sized colour electronic-paper – a paper-thin and bendable viewing panel.

The e-paper – which measures 35.9cm across its diagonal and is just 300 micrometres (0.3 millimetres) thin – can display up to 4096 colours, the world’s second largest liquid crystal display maker said in a statement.

It is designed to be energy-efficient, only using power when the image changes on the display, it said.

“This represents the next generation in display technology,” Chung In-Jae, chief technology officer and executive vice-president, said in the statement.

The new display product’s potential applications “are incredible and will allow our customers to create new products that are not only convenient to use but also save natural resources”, he added.

LG Philips said it developed the world’s first 25.65cm flexible black-and-white e-paper in October 2005 and a 35.8cm follow-up – which matches the most common copy size – in May 2006.

AFP

New Solar Technology from New Zealand

New solar cells developed by Massey University don’t need direct sunlight to operate and use a patented range of dyes that can be impregnated in roofs, window glass and eventually even clothing to produce power.

Global warming threatens more than just poles and tropics

Some of the world’s most distinctive and biologically diverse climate regions – from South America’s Andes Mountains to southern and eastern Africa and the US Southwest – may be drastically altered by century’s end, endangering plant and animal life there, according to a new climate-modeling report issued March 26.

Beat the spammers with disposable email addresses

Guerrilla Mail provides you with disposable e-mail addresses which expire after 15 minutes. You can read and reply to e-mails that are sent to the temporary e-mail address within the given time frame.

Europe’s oldest astronomical observatory unearthed

German experts on Thursday hailed Europe’s oldest astronomical observatory, discovered in Saxony-Anhalt last year, a “milestone in archaeological research” after the details of the sensational find were made public.

The Air Car Becomes a Reality

How noisy would the world be powered by these?

By Chris Russell

The MiniC.A.T Air Car has been in development by Moteur Development International (MDI) for the last 14 years, resulting in an engine which will run on thin air. Understandably, MDI say this “could become one of the biggest technological advances of this century”.

The engine runs on compressed air and, with a single charge, will deliver 2000km worth of pollution free travel- although this assumes you’re driving under 60km/h, once you go faster than that you’ll start to burn fuel. Nonetheless, at speeds above 60km/h the car still produces less pollutant than your average.

Quite literally not a car for the petrol head then, but it sounds like great news for the environment. Just don’t tell Gordon Brown, lest he starts taxing us for air in the next budget!

No idea when the car will be released, but it could cost as little as £5,500 according to Metro

Dance, Monkey, Dance!

Click here to see the movie

2008 vs 1984

Amazing what people with talent and motivation can do. What will Apple’s legal army do?