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• Korean e-book technology offers glimpse of a more realistic reading experience
  Idealog Daily Bacon blog, 15 January, 2012

  New technology announced last week by the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) might herald a new era in virtual reading. Its Smart E-book System aims to incorporate all our favourite features of reading a real book, including allowing users to quickly flip through pages by sliding a finger from the bezel onto the screen, or vice versa.

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  • Nature of Technology: technological extinction?
  • Digital Technologies : computer programming - "algorithm-based conversion technology".

• CES 2012: 3D printer makers' rival visions of future
  BBC.co.uk online article, 11 January, 2012

  With a whir and a click, the job is done. In the space of 20 minutes, a plastic bottle opener has been constructed by the Replicator - a 3D printing machine capable of making objects up to the size of a loaf of bread. 3D printing is nothing new - engineers and designers have been using it for more than two decades to create prototypes. What has changed is that the printers are now being pitched at consumers.

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  • Manufacturing technology: additive manufacturing.
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