Sharp has developed a 2.2-inch super thin LCD display for mobile devices, which is claimed to be the world’s thinnest that has a thickness of 0.68 mm only. The Sharp Mobile Advanced Super View LCD is made based on Sharp’s proprietary fabrication techniques for thin LCDs, especially the glass substrate and backlight technologies. Despite [...]
Microsoft has set its sights on the family entertainment market with the launch of a new family-friendly ‘Xbox Arcade’ package.
The new console bundle has been launched in time for the Christmas market and will come bundled with family-oriented games such as ‘Pac-Man: Championship Edition’, ‘Uno’ and ‘Feeding Frenzy’. The console also features parental controls that [...]
Two Irish nuns have just arrived in USA by boat and one says to the other, "I hear that the people in this country actually eat dogs."
"Odd," her companion replies, "but if we shall live in America, we might as well do as the Americans do."
Nodding emphatically, the mother [...]
The European Central Bank (ECB) will not raise interest rates again this year and is unlikely to cut rates until the end of 2008, a senior European investment manager said yesterday.
William De Vijlder, managing director and chief investment officer of Fortis Investments, said rates were unlikely to rise above their current level of [...]
The versatile BWU-200S Blu-ray Disc™ recordable/rewritable drive gives you the best of all worlds. It can record up to four hours of 1080 Full HD video or up to 50GB of data on BD-R/-RE discs at up to 4X speed. The drive can also record 8.5GB/4.7GB DVDs and common rewritable CDs to meet even [...]
A skyscraper soaring 197ft higher than the Spire on O'Connell Street has been chosen by the Dublin Docklands Development Authority as the winner of the latest competition for the U2 Tower at Britain Quay.
The sensational new scheme has the rock band's eggshaped recording studio suspended beneath a battery of vertical wind turbines and [...]
A married fellow gets home early from work and hears strange noises coming from the bedroom. He rushes upstairs to find his wife naked on the bed, sweating and panting.
"What's up?" he asks.
"I'm having a heart attack," cries the woman.
He rushes downstairs to grab the phone, but [...]
