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A group of Taiwan scientists have developed an environmentally friendly form of rewritable electronic paper that works without electricity.

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The above article was taken from My Paper (http://mypaper.sg/) on 23 Jun 2011, Page A11

• ideas2IP is an online innovation platform designed to bring inventors and investors together to commercialise good ideas.
• Targeted at giving creative Singaporeans an avenue to further their ideas, the platform provides a conducive environment to encourage disclosure of new ideas and presents the opportunity for the ideas to be brought alive by investors with the means and experience.
• Aimed at bridging the gap between IP creation and exploitation, ideas2IP will allow individual inventors to come forth to share their ideas with potential investors in a safe environment. Investors with the means and experience can help to fund and guide the further development of the ideas into a form that has commercial potential.  With this platform, we hope to encourage IP owners, intermediaries and private sector companies to help turn ideas into commercial reality.

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• Taiwanese inventor Gordon Teng on Saturday received the highest honor at the 22nd International Invention, Innovation and Technology Exhibition held in Malaysia over the weekend.
• Teng said that he hoped poor children would follow in his footsteps and use inventions to create a better life for themselves.
• Teng, who is now the head of Taichung-based Asia University’s Creative Design and Invention Center, recalled how he often went hungry growing up in a single-parent family.
• However, his life changed at the age of 17 with his first invention — an infrared sensor for flushing toilets that made him NT$1.5 million (US$52,050). He has since invented another 300 devices.

The above are extracted from http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2011/05/23/2003503902

• First results from a major astronomical survey using a cutting-edge technique appear to have confirmed the existence of mysterious dark energy.
• Dark energy makes up some 74% of the Universe and its existence would explain why the Universe appears to be expanding at an accelerating rate.
• The concept of dark energy was first invoked in the late 1990s by studying the brightness of distant supernovas – exploding stars.
• “The action of dark energy is as if you threw a ball up in the air, and it kept speeding upward into the sky faster and faster,”
• While dark energy makes up about 74% of the Universe, dark matter – which does not reflect or emit detectable light – accounts for 22%. Ordinary matter – gas, stars, planets and galaxies – makes up just 4% of the cosmos.

The above was extracted from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13462926

• Intel announced on Wednesday that it had made the production of 3-D transistors a commercially viable reality and further claimed that in so doing, the company would continue to meet or beat the promise of Moore’s Law for years to come.
• As they’re used in integrated circuits like microprocessors, transistors can be thought of as switches, when they’re on, current flows, when they’re off, no current flows. The goal of the transistor designer is to make the perfect switch, lots of power can flow when turned on, absolutely no power flows when turned off, and the switch can change states very quickly, requiring very little power to do so.
• Using the valve analogy, you can immediately understand some truisms about transistors. Leaky ones are bad, and smaller ones can usually open and close faster than bigger ones, but they let less water (or current in the case of transistors) through.

The above are extracted from http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/processors/229402837

• Car engines could soon be fired by lasers instead of spark plugs, researchers say.
• The approach would increase efficiency of engines, and reduce their pollution, by igniting more of the mixture.
• The team has been developing a new approach to the problem: lasers made of ceramic powders that are pressed into spark-plug sized cylinders.

The above are extracted from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13160950

• Historically, LEDs have faced three challenges. They cast a bluish hue rather than the pleasing yellowish light of incandescent bulbs, they ran hot, and they were too expensive.

• The new bulbs emit a more attractive light (around 2,700 Kelvin) and have space-age cooling fins reminiscent of those used to cool computer CPUs. The result is that the heat associated with LEDs, which can shorten their lifespan, is dissipated evenly, allowing them to be used in any standard fixture.

The above are extracted from http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/04/22/let-leds-american-inventor-builds-better-light-bulb/