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Taking the adage "be prepared" to the next level
Eric, a thirty year old electrician from Lyons, France, has made the record books for having the "most practical suit of clothing". Often dubbed "The Human Penknife" Eric has no less that 1,300 useful objects, ranging from a humble toothbrush to a soldering iron, arranged in carefully designed pouches sewn into his clothing. What won't you leave home without?
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at 4:37 AM on November 13, 2002
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Computer gaming ,which once seemed in danger of being entirely trounced by the popularity of console games, now seems healthier than ever, with new game engines taking advantage of speedier processors and the improved capacities of the new age 3D cards.
A mere week after the launch of the demo, the PC game
Unreal Tournament 2003 has
gone gold. Also being launched in the US is
"The Thing" which picks up on the story from the John Carpenter movie of the same name. Gamers are also eagerly anticipating
"Thief 3," "Doom 3," "Unreal 2," and
"Deus Ex 2"
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at 2:16 AM on September 22, 2002
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Could
this new digital camera technology finally spell the death of traditional emulsion-film cameras? According to inventor
Carver Mead, the X3 photographic sensor chip "delivers two to three times the image-producing power of today's digital cameras." Although not the first to try to bring this promising technology to the market place, Carver believes his new start-up company "Faveon," has made the breakthrough necessary to usher in the age of
affordable 35mm film quality digital photography.
link via techdirt
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at 7:45 AM on February 11, 2002
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Scientists in Australia have
discovered a new gene. Called BRCA3, this genetic mutation causes up to 10% of the breast cancer cases which run within families. This breakthrough completes the search for the trilogy of gene mutations. The first two gene mutation markers were discovered in 1994 and 1995 respectively.
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at 5:45 AM on February 8, 2002
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