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Finally got a printer to replace the one that is dying slowly. The sad thing is that the old laser simply needs a new drum assembly.  But a new drum costs $150+. A whole new printer plus an extra toner cartridge is about $100.

Read about it from Stanford University News Service.
"The new version, developed through research led by Yi Cui, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, produces 10 times the amount of electricity of existing lithium-ion, known as Li-ion, batteries."

A couple companies that make digital rights management (DRM-copy protection) software are suing Adobe and Real for writing their own DRM software instead of buying the companies' software. They claim that not buying their software is circumventing DRM.  Circumventing DRM is forbidden by the DMCA (digital millennium copyright act-the crappy law that ( Read more... )

See this web page for Apple's upcoming new high-tech toy.

http://www.apple.com/iphone/
Knowing Apple I bet they will cost an arm and a leg and the indentured servitude of your childrens' childrens' children unto the seventh generation.