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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. MB of data. The thumb drive was all that—and more.

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Wireless Worries Overshadow Triumphs of RF Research

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—Kenneth Foster, University of Pennsylvania In your opinion, is exposure assessment a solved problem? For example, a number of scientists are surveying levels of RF fields in the environment, to address the public's health concerns. Foster: Measuring RF fields in free space is not a problem. The list goes on.

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Failed Local Paper Put Out Of Its Misery - By Creative Greenius!

Creative Greenius

They never worked very hard and they spent way too much time making personal phone calls and just goofing off. It’s not even cheap at twenty five cents an issue. Sorry Stan, it’s nothing personal, I’m just plumb filled up in the lunatic category right now and we’ve got to let you go.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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It would have been quite different had Warnock and company not been in the right place at the right time to meet the right person. The time was right because of the imminence of three hardware developments: the first low-cost, bit-mapped personal computer, the first low-cost laser printer, and a decline in price of high-density memory chips.

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The Business of Plugging In: Building the Full Ecosystem for a Successful Plug-in Vehicle Industry in the US

Green Car Congress

Electricity is a cheap entity—not a commodity, but is its fundamentally very cheap. maintain a system as well as maintain and recover and investment on it that is fundamentally very cheap. Director, Manufacturing Research Center, Western Michigan University. Assistant Professor, Michigan State University.

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Europe/US team: transitioning to a low-carbon world will create new rivalries, winners and losers

Green Car Congress

In their commentary, Andreas Goldthau (Royal Holloway University of London), Kirsten Westphal (German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP)), Morgan Bazilian (Colorado School of Mines) & Michael Bradshaw (University of Warwick) present four geopolitical scenarios to illustrate how varied the transition could be by 2030.

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Why are some EV chargers more expensive than others?

Green Charging

We do not want to waste money on cheap, low-quality commodities. The automobile industry is investing in protecting the environment. This type is widely becoming accepted as the universal charger type. Therefore, each person must adapt to the technological changes to fit in. We want to save money. Conclusion.