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Here’s an interesting article taken from “My Paper” ( http://mypaper.sg) on 10 Mar 2010, Page A13.

This is an interesting article that I saw in “My Paper”, 16 Dec 2009, Page A6 (http://mypaper.sg).

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The New British Standard

Slimmed Down Three-Pin Plug

The Royal College of Art’s graduate show has opened, and this year, the show-stopper was actually — a plug.

Min-Kyu Choi impressed every passerby with his neat, apparently market-ready plug that folds down to the width of a thin mobile computer.

“Many of today’s mobile computers have become wafer thin but here in the UK, we still use the world’s biggest three-pin plug,” says Choi.

Enter Choi’s slimmed down British three-pin plug wonder.

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Note: Please register (Free) with Vanan at tel: 68281989 or at email: innovate@smu.edu.sg if you wish to attend

(CNN) — Some people follow rock stars. Steve Greenberg follows inventors.

Greenberg calls himself an “invention groupie.” The author of “Gadget Nation,” he’s written about quirky inventors who have dreamed up everything from a talking toilet paper dispenser to a “Vidstone” grave marker that displays a video tribute of the dearly departed.

Now is a great time for an inventor to become a rock star, Greenberg says. The economy may be slumping, but he and others say inventors are poised to enter a golden age.

(The above text are taken from http://edition.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/01/12/invent/ )

Article taken from “Today” newspaper, 8 Jan 2010,  Page 14
http://www.todayonline.com

SINGAPORE — Local technology start-ups have long prayed for more angelic assistance at the most critical stage of their incubation.

Now, a national scheme to address this lack has drawn the keen participation of veteran incubators and angel investors from the likes of MySpace.com founder Brad Greenspan and Silicon Valley’s Plug & Play.
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Article taken from “Today” Newspaper, 31 Dec 2009, Page B1

Commuters and motorists in Singapore can now better plan their trips, thanks to a unique collaboration between Google and Singapore’s Land Transport Authority (LTA) which makes maps, directions and route planning for various forms of land transport modes available for free on Google Maps. These transport modes include buses, trains, cars and even walking.

http://www.ida.gov.sg/insg/post/Smoother-rides-on-Singapore-roads.aspx