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Apple claims 62 per cent of the UK music player market, 78 per cent in the US, and the market for games on iPhone is thriving. We sat down with Greg Joswiak, Apple’s VP of iPod and iPhone product marketing, to find out why he thinks the App Store will revolutionise the portable gaming market.

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama retook the oath of office at the White House on Wednesday after a blunder during Tuesday’s inauguration.

If you look at the 1956 film Forbidden Planet the crew of the C-57D starship would seem at home in an Elizabethan naval vessel from the 1600s. Yet just ten years later in 1966 the crew of the Enterprise seems like they would fit right into the multicultural global village of 2009: Credit for this goes to bold visionaries like Gene Roddenberry.

In some cases, it might be better for your health to reach for the Doritos.

Smivs writes “The BBC are reporting on the development of tiny motors the size of a grain of salt which could power surgical Microbots. Some surgical procedures are hindered by the size or inflexibility of current instruments. For example, the labyrinthine network of blood vessels in the brain prevents the use of catheters threaded through larger blood vessels. Researchers have long envisioned that trends of miniaturisation would lead to tiny robots that could get around easily in the body. The problem until now has been powering them. Conventional electric motors do not perform as well as they are scaled down in size. As they approach millimetre dimensions, they barely have the power to overcome the resistance in their bearings. Now, research reported in the Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering has demonstrated a motor about 1/4mm wide, about the width of two human hairs.”

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coondoggie writes “Researchers say technology they have developed would let boats or small aquatic robots glide through the water without the need for an engine, sails or paddles. A University of Pittsburgh research team has designed a propulsion system that uses the natural surface tension that is present on the water’s surface and an electric pulse to move the boat or robot, researchers said. The Pitt system has no moving parts and the low-energy electrode that emits the pulse could be powered by batteries, radio waves, or solar power, researchers said in a statement.”

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