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A hand-holding robot can help partially-paralysed stroke patients regain their ability to grasp and pick up objects, according to a new study.The therapy uses a computer-driven robot, which has a metal ‘hand’ that wraps around and opens and closes the patient’s fingers.

Apple on Thursday discontinued its legacy 20-inch Cinema Display, reducing its external display offerings to just two options: it’s new LED-lit 23-inch display for notebooks and its legacy 30-inch display for desktops.

If you are an aspiring Graphic designer you should be already familiar with blender by now, but if you are thinking about being a game developer or a graphic designer you should know that Blender is not only the best free and open source choice but also rivals all commercial 3d applications out there.

Nancy Atkinson writes “A new company Space Energy, Inc. says they have developed what they call a “rock-solid business platform” and they should be able to provide commercially available space based solar power within a decade. “Although it’s a very grandiose vision, it makes total sense,” Space Energy’s Peter Sage told Universe Today. ‘We’re focused on the fact that this is an inevitable technology and someone is going to do it. Right now we’re the best shot. We’re also focused on the fact that, according to every scenario we’ve analyzed, the world needs space based solar power, and it needs it soon, as well as the up-scaling of just about every other source of renewable energy that we can get our hands on.'”

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Barence writes “Dell has issued court papers in the US, accusing Psion of fraudulently laying claim to the term netbook. Psion sent out warning letters late last year to PC manufacturers, retailers and bloggers alike, asking them to stop using the term netbook, which the company registered as a trademark in the late 1990s. But in a Petition for Cancellation of Psion’s trademark, the PC manufacturer accuses Psion of abandoning the term and fraudulently claiming it was still in use. “Psion is not currently offering laptop computers under the Netbook trademark,” Dell’s petition claims. The petition also claims that Psion made false statements about its use of the term Netbook in a sworn declaration to the US Trademark Office.”

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