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Thai University Awarded Patent for Easy, Fast and Cheap Biodiesel Test Process

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Prince of Songkla University (PSU) in Thailand was granted a petty patent for a biodiesel test process using only a microwave oven as the main equipment, making it economical in terms of money and time (only 15 minutes for the result to come out). However, the PSU method is an easy, fast and cheap.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. This was granted to Amir Ban, Dov Moran, and Oron Ogdan in November 2000. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995. The thumb drive was all that—and more. Tan did give Toshiba its music player.

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