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  1. A Japanese rail firm has introduced a system to check that staff are smiling enough at all times. Computerised scanners around 15 Tokyo stations will measure the smile's curvature to ensure it is broad enough. Those failing to measure up - literally - will be advised to look less serious and more cheerful. The BBC's Roland Buerk, in Tokyo, says that the Japanese highly value customer service. It is standard practice, our correspondent explains, for smartly-dressed train conductors to bow as customers enter and leave train carriages. The software has been developed by Japanese firm Omron. They suggests that future applications may include shops - where they could be positioned to measure the reaction of customers to products on display. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8146078.stm
  2. UK - Sainsbury's will this week cut the ribbon on a new "people-powered" kinetic energy system, which could soon be rolled out at stores across the country. The new Kinetic Road Plates have been installed at the supermarket giant's new store in Gloucester, U.K., and will harness enough energy from vehicles driving in and out of the store's car park to power all the store's check outs. The new system, which has been developed by U.K. startup Highway Energy Systems, works using plates that move when vehicles drive over them, creating enough kinetic energy to drive a generator. The technology is expected to produce 30kW of energy an hour without causing any disturbance to motorists as they drive over the plates. http://www.businessgreen.com/business-gree...lls-kinetic-car
  3. An in-depth look at what really makes no-frills airlines cheaper...
  4. The world's biggest mobile phone makers and network operators have backed plans to create a universal phone recharger. Most manufacturers now produce chargers which work only with their own devices. The re-charger will consume 50% less stand-by energy than today's models, the GSM Association (GSMA), an umbrella group for the industry, said. Firms to back the plan include Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, LG, T-Mobile, Orange, 3, AT&T and Vodafone. The majority of new handsets will support the re-charger by 2012. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7894763.stm
  5. Indian defence scientist are planning to replace the hand grenade's explosives with 'Bhut Jolokia' - said to be 1,000 times hotter than commonly used kitchen chilli. They say the devices will be used to control rioters and in counter-insurgency operations to immobilise people without killing them. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8119591.stm?t
  6. Einstein's theory of relativity, E=mc2 (where 'c' is the speed of light) is more or less based on the prediction that nothing can consistently travel at the speed of light; ~ 300,000 km/s. This is roughly a million times faster than sound, and fast enough to circle the Earth more than 7 times in one second. But, Scientist John Singleton from Los Alamos National Laboratory has created a gadget that abuses radio waves so severely that they finally give in and travel faster than light. Singleton's discovery could have wide-ranging technological impacts in areas such as medicine and communications, he said. "Because nobody's really thought about things that travel faster than light before, this is a wide-open technological field," Singleton said. One possible use for the resulting speedy radio waves - which are packed into a very powerful wave the size of a pencil point - could be the creation of a new generation of cell phones that communicate directly to satellites, rather than transmitting through relay towers as they now do. http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Healthand...ster_than_light
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