A car that can jump over obstacles

A childlike grin spreads across 76-year-old Amar Bose's face as the vehicle does something most can't: jump over the board, like a cat bounding over a fallen log.

The sedan's experimental, Bose-designed suspension, driven by four electromagnetic motors, had quickly pulled each wheel up, then down.

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The End of Copyright?

"I think we are witnessing the beginning of the end of a major era in world history. It may take fifty years, it may take a hundred, but the age of copyright is drawing to a close. I don’t know if this is a good thing or a bad thing, but it’s inevitable."

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The Whereabouts of Dr. Einstein's Brain

Dr. Albert Einstein died on April 18, 1955 at Princeton Hospital in Trenton, New Jersey. In accordance with his wishes, he was cremated without ceremony on the same day, and his ashes scattered at an undisclosed location.

But the body that arrived at the cremation oven was not quite complete… it was lacking its brain.

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Samsung's Laptop-Desktop

Samsung has released the M70, a hybrid PC, with a detachable 19" screen, so you can use your laptop as a desktop too.


It boasts of a 19" WSXGA+ (1680x1050) HDTV compatible screen, Pentium M770 (2.13GHz) CPU, 1Gb of DDR 533MHz RAM, 100Gb HDD, Wireless LAN, alongwith other "usual" stuff. My birthday is around the corner, anyone listening?