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Nokia launches Ovi apps store, LG Display unveils a super bright 3D television, Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates discuss the market and upcoming possibilities, NHK shows off their paper-thin, bendable display and we explore Siftables at MIT’s Media Lab.

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Week in Review – 5/29

A new breed of laptop screen that much easier on the eyes but retains the qualities needed for multimedia will soon be here and we got a chance to see the first samples.

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An LCD that’s easy on the eyes

Thai math students try out Microsoft Multipoint, which allows multiple mice to participate in exercises on the same computer.

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Microsoft MultiPoint livens up math class

MIT’s Siftables are moving closer to commercialization. Each block is an interactive computer that can show graphics, sense motion and communicate wirelessly with a computer.

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MIT’s Siftables: Computerized Blocks

Akibatteru is a bi-weekly look at what’s happening in Japan’s center of gadget, anime, manga and game culture. This week features Nintendo DS news and new figures from Kotobukiya.

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AKIBATTERU Episode 1

Japan’s public broadcaster NHK displayed a prototype 5.8-inch display that can be unrolled and rolled up on demand. Based on Organic LED (OLED), the display has a relatively low resolution of 213 by 120 pixels.

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Bendable TV screen displayed

Keith Shaw gets a demo of the latest DisplayLink advances, which USB-enable high-performance monitors as well as allow netbooks to attach to monitors via USB.

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Interop: Up Close with DisplayLink

Palm readies to launch the Pre, LG Display unveils world’s thinnest LCD TV, Microsoft tells users to abandon Vista testing for Windows 7, Google translates your Gmail, and the Fisker Karma luxury hybrid gets closer to market.

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Week in Review 5/22

At Interop Las Vegas, Keith Shaw takes a look at Sprint’s MiFi device, which combines a 3G wireless connection with a Wi-Fi router to let users create a mobile hot spot.

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Closer look at Sprint’s MiFi

Microsoft encouraged users to download and try the release candidate of the OS and even went as far as saying that users testing Vista should abandon that effort for the Windows 7 release candidate.

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Microsoft: Try Windows 7, abandon Vista

The long-awaited Karma now has a dealer in Silicon Valley, so Fisker showed off some prototypes on Monday in San Jose.

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Silicon Valley gets luxury hybrid dealer

The 42 and 47 inch LCD TV panels measure only 5.9 mm thick and use an edge-lit LED backlight.

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LG claims world’s thinnest LCD TV

Atlantis launches to fix Hubble, the European Commission fines Intel, iRobot ships bots to the battlefield, Kabul gets WiMax, a Thai hospital boosts safety with robots and eye tracking systems go open source.

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Week in Review – 5/15

Despite a hefty price tag, the hospital views robots as essential in helping reducing human errors.

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Robots improve efficiency at Thai hospital

The European Commission has fined Intel just under 1.1 billion euro, or about 1.4 billion US dollars for violating European antitrust rules.

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Europe fines Intel $1.4B for antitrust violations