This has got to be the coolest video that I have seen for a long time. A pizza sliced into eight perfectly sized slices with the help of a laser cutter. While I am not sure how much something like this would cost, I must admit that I am interested to sample a piece of laser cut pizza. [Gadget Lab via DVICE]

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It's been quite a while since Viliv last popped up on our radar, but the company has just rolled into IDF with a pair of new devices to rectify that situation, including the S5 MID and S7 UMPC. From the looks of it, the S7 (pictured above) is the more interesting of the two, with it sporting a convertible form factor, the usual Atom processor, built-in GPS, and an integrated Wimax or HSDPA module. Pricing doesn't look to have been nailed down just yet, but the company is apparently looking to launch it in the first quarter of 2009. The S5 (after the break), on the other hand, looks to be a fairly run of the mill MID, although UMPC Portal says that a 3G option is "possible," and its promised video playback time of five to six hours is certainly respectable enough. No word on a price or release date for it either, but you can check out some more pics and videos of each device by digging into the links below.

P.S. We should note that the S7 is still in the "final design stages." We hear that last "P" is always the toughest.

Read - UMPC Portal, "Viliv S5 MID"
Read - UMPC Portal, "Viliv S7 Atom-based UMPC"

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An explanation from MIT:

First, on a clear, rubbery material the team used a common technique called soft lithography to create a pattern of tiny posts either four or eight millionths of a meter in diameter. On top of these posts, they then deposited several layers of two polymers that together act as the solid electrolyte and battery separator.

Next came viruses that preferentially self-assemble atop the polymer layers on the posts, ultimately forming the anode. In 2006, Hammond, Belcher, Chiang and colleagues reported in Science how to do this. Specifically, they altered the virus's genes so it makes protein coats that collect molecules of cobalt oxide to form ultrathin wires -- together, the anode.

The final result: a stamp of tiny posts, each covered with layers of electrolyte and the cobalt oxide anode. "Then we turn the stamp over and transfer the electrolyte and anode to a platinum structure" that, together with lithium foil, is used for testing, Hammond said.

The team concludes in their PNAS paper: "the resulting electrode arrays exhibit full electrochemical functionality."

What's next? In addition to developing the third part of a full battery -- the cathode -- via the viral assembly technique, the team is also exploring a stamp for use on curved surfaces, Belcher said. "We're also interested in integrating [the batteries] with biological organisms."

Press release: MIT engineers work toward cell-sized batteries...

Images: 1) An array of microbattery electrodes, each only about four micrometers, or millionths of a meter, in diameter. 2) Tweezers hold the device used to test MIT's new components for microbatteries (batteries themselves are invisible in this image). Images courtesy / Belcher Laboratory, MIT

(hat tip: Boing Boing)

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Here, the initial chutes that positions the craft for the main chutes' test (so, not a part of the final system) failed shortly after being dropped from a C-17 cargo plane at 25,000 feet. As you can see, it all goes downhill from there, terminating in "a landing that severely damaged the test mock-up." Well said, NASA—I'm guessing any test dummies inside for pressure measurements had to be scraped off the desert floor with a knife. [NASA - Thanks, Travis!]

We apologize if we have had too much of iPhone coverage today but here comes the final dampener for today. Airtel will also be selling the iPhone at the same price which Vodafone revealed today. We hope the plans will be something to cheer for!

Airtel iPhone

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More abuse news for iPhone lovers as Vodafone released the plans which include voice as well as data. For a new postpaid user, there are three plan options - iPhone 499 (Rs. 499), iPhone 799 (Rs. 799) and iPhone 999 (Rs. 999). On the calling front, these plans will have free 199, 249 and 299 minutes (local & STD) respectively. All local calls go at 60 paise flat while STD at Re. 1. SMS charges are 1/2/5 (local/national/international). Heavy internet users will be disappointed because there is no unlimited data plan to go for. The free data usage per month for these plans is 50MB, 250MB and 600MB.

For existing Vodafone customers, you can add a data pack which has the options of Rs. 199 giving 50MB free, Rs. 499 for 250MB and Rs. 699 for 600MB.

Prepaid users need to buy a data bonus card which will cost Rs. 100 with no free usage. 5 paise per 10kb for additional data transfer.

The final interpretation is that locked iPhones on sale without any contract.

Vodafone iPhone Plans

[Thanks Pankaj]

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It is without a doubt if you are able to parade a Mobiado handset around, you’re pretty much set for life. The Mobiado Lucido is no different, as it comes with a combination of sapphire crystal, stainless steel and aircraft aluminum in the final product. There will only be 200 of these circling around the world, so getting spare parts would be pretty much out of the question - hence, be careful while using this! Features include :-

Triband GSM/WCDMA 2100Supports MP3, MP4, eAAC+ and AAC file formats2 megapixel cameraInternal memory

No idea on pricing, but as I mentioned, this shouldn’t be cheap in any sense of the word if its pedigree is anything to go by.

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It is without a doubt if you are able to parade a Mobiado handset around, you're pretty much set for life. The Mobiado Lucido is no different, as it comes with a combination of sapphire crystal, stainless steel and aircraft aluminum in the final product. There will only be 200 of these circling around the world, so getting spare parts would be pretty much out of the question - hence, be careful while using this! Features include :-

• Triband GSM/WCDMA 2100
• Supports MP3, MP4, eAAC+ and AAC file formats
• 2 megapixel camera
• Internal memory

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