Bringing us one step closer to the day when we'll finally have our own Terminator, Mark 1, to do the laundry is news that scientists have developed sensitive skin for robots. The skins convert tiny changes in pressure into electrical signals that a processor can understand and is as sensitive as human skin.
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The Floppy Disk has had it. Sony is to stop selling them from March, 2011 due to dwindling demand. Sony developed the 3.5 inch disk in 1981, replacing the larger 5.25 inch one that had been in use. But like everything technological, its time was marked.
The eternal debate and confusion for the average computer user revolves around deciding whether to get more processing power, or get more RAM. Which is best really depends what you plan on doing with your spanking brand new computer. But those days could soon be past.
It seems Google won't be the first to have an operating system (OS) with advertising running on it. Microsoft has got in ahead of Google, opening up Windows 7 to desktop advertising in a trial that will go on until October 2010.
