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By Evan Ackerman At Mobile World Congress 2009 this week, LG was displaying a new cell phone with a solar panel battery back that won’t need to be plugged in until the sun goes dead in 6-odd billion years. Ten minutes of sun gets you three minutes of talk time, which is not half bad… [...]

The second day of the MWC 2009 is now over and we are particularly happy about Nokia’s announcements. First of all, it wasn’t a secret that there were going to be some introductions into Nokia’s Nseries smartphones. So at the end of the day we have the N86 8MP announced for the second quarter with [...]

I congratulate you, all smartphone lovers, with today’s MWC grand opening. Only three days of non-stopping mobile phone premieres from world’s best brands and, of course, ambitious newcomers in the field. Here is an interesting contender. Acer for years was developing computer gear and now they are after cell phone market cut. Four presented devices, [...]

The Mobile World Congress 2009 is starting just after this weekend on February 16 and is anticipated not any less than CES of this year was. Three days of MWC are going to be fruitful with new and upcoming mobile phones. Here is the first one that is going shine soon. Quite literally I have [...]

Great news for car industry was found on the Web. The fashion and necessity of making cars environmentally friendlier has now enhanced onto suspension parts. While lots of petrolheads dislike motors with severe catalysts and poor fuel feed and particularly electric motors that don’t do better than a diesel but cost a fortune, making suspension [...]

On February 10, Japan’s KAGUYA (a.k.a. SELENE) lunar explorer shot video of the Earth as it passed between the Sun and the Moon. The probe’s high-definition cameras captured a rare view of the so-called “diamond ring effect” seen from the Moon. The phenomenon is usually only ever observed during total solar eclipses on Earth, just [...]

Devastation of Urban Gas Attack In 1938, the Japanese Red Cross worked with government authorities to create a series of posters to teach the public about the new Anti-Aircraft Defense Law, which was enacted in seeming anticipation of air strikes following the outbreak of the Japan-China War (1937-1945). Among other things, the law required citizens [...]

In his “Blast” series of photographs, Naoya Hatakeyama uses remote-control cameras to capture the drama and destruction of Japan’s limestone blasting operations from point-blank range. The dangerous, close-up views of exploding debris inspire the viewer to consider the human capacity for destruction, while providing a unique perspective on the instant obliteration of these ancient rock [...]

Walk the stairwells of some of Tokyo’s oldest department stores and you will find some remarkable ammonite fossils embedded in the marble walls. Mitsukoshi (Shinjuku) Ammonites are hard-shelled, squid-like creatures that inhabited the world’s oceans for nearly 350 million years, until they died out with the dinosaurs about 65 million years ago. They are known [...]