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2. Zink - Zero-INK colour printing. 3. The Latest Tech News 4. The Gadget Show - a review of the latest Resident Evil game. 5. A digital Earth? 6. Playing to Win - serious gaming. 7. Coming to you soon - the first solar powered touch screen phone. 8. What now? - mind blowing interactions on the world around you. Zink
ZINK ('zero ink') printers use a thermal imaging technique to produce colour prints from 'paper' that contains patented crystals. The printer produces heat pulses, the intensity and duration of which control whether the cyan, magenta or yellow layer is activated at a given location, to produce a full colour image.
The latest information on the browser development. Chrome is on its way.
For Explorer 8 News
1 Trillion Web Pages
Google has given an indication of the 'size' of the web, namely 1 trillion (one million, million) 'unique URLs'. Each URL represents a page - the number now 'growing by several billion pages per day' - having increased from a mere billion back in 2000. The Gadget Show 23rd March
Jason plays and reviews the highly anticipated fifth instalment of the Resident Evil series and catches up with the games producer Masachika Kawata.
Digital Earth
Soon we will be able to visit any library and any book in the world. The digital earth movement uses virtual world technology in its aim to help people access any information any where in the world. From Ideas for Life TV
Playing to win
The Human Interface Technologies Team at the University of Birmingham are pioneering the development and uptake of serious games technologies. They are looking at wearable computing, defence human factors, medical simulation and lots more.
It's on the way
According to reports, the touch-screen phone will feature an integrated solar panel on the back of the handset capable of topping up the battery throughout the day. It will also incorporate a pedometer that allows users to calculate how much carbon they save by walking
What next
SixthSense sees what you see and visually augments any surfaces or objects we are interacting with. It projects information onto surfaces around us, and lets us interact with the projected information through natural hand gestures, arm movements, or our interaction with the object itself.
