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Touch Bionics also agreed to fit the hand and train Matthew at their state of the art facilities for free, which would have otherwise cost £25,000.

Matthew said: ''It is just amazing.

even fitted with Bluetooth technology to allow Matthew to hook up to a computer wirelessly to track the strength and speed of his movements.

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BlackBerry 7

new OS

iPhone 5

Samsung's Galaxy II phone

Windows Phone 7 (Mango, or 7.5)

(with a keyboard

In-Depth With The Phones

single-core 1.2 GHz Qualcomm processor

5 megapixel cameras with image stabilization

24-bit

4x zoom

8 megapixel cameras; some have 3-D video capture and playback.

BlackBerry battery life standards

fairly heavy mobile phone user, consuming apps

5.5 hours of talk time on GSM

9810 rates 6.5

Torch 9800

768 MB

of RAM

Torch 9850 has 4 GB of storage on board, expandable to 36 GB, while the Torch 9810 has 8 GB on board, upgradeable to 32 GB. The Bold starts with 8 GB, and maxes out at 40 GB.

stairwells

2004 after a $20m security upgrade. The observation deck at the top of the crown was reopened on 4 July 2009.

240 people visit each day. About 3.5 million people visit the monument every year.

history

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ppression systems, elevators and bathrooms.

say cellphones can help stave off boredom

13 percent say

avoid interacting with people around them.

29 percent

83 percent of U.S. adults own some type of cellphone

phones for awhile to get a break

35 percent own a smartphone of some kind,

51 percent say

phone at least once to get information they needed right away in the last 30 days.

One-quarter say they experienced a situation in the previous month in which they had trouble doing something because they did not have their phone at hand

40 percent of cellphone owners

hey have found themselves in an emergency situation and having a cellphone was helpful.

ice cream

red meat

butter.

lowering

artery-clogging cholesterol, what you eat may be more important than what you don't eat.

such as soy protein and nuts

reduce bad cholesterol far more effectively than a diet low in saturated fat.

That could drive down a person's risk of fatal heart attack or stroke by 10%, the authors suggested.

dump their drugs for tofu,

"Patients don't want to take the medications, and I'm afraid that if you tell them there's a diet that works just as well, then they'll do that instead," he said.

1 in 6 Americans has a high overall cholesterol level,

makes a person nearly twice as likely to suffer a heart attack or stroke as someone whose total cholesterol falls into a healthy range.

(LDL) cholesterol is one component of this overall number.

nation's most commonly prescribed medications,

355 million prescriptions dispensed,

soy protein, nuts,

"sticky" fiber such as that found in oats and barley,

plant sterols.

handful of nuts such as almonds or walnuts every day, and to substitute milk and meats with soy and tofu products as much as possible.

tax in the past.

level of

Mr Schmidt told the Edinburgh Television Festival yesterday that Google "loves" Britain and would pay more tax if it were legally required to do so. He said the company's hands were tied by Britain's low tax demands.

"It is true we could pay more tax but we would have to do so voluntarily. It's called paying the legally minimum amount of tax required," he said.

Mr Schmidt's comments come after months of

surrounding the UK's corporate tax system, which has seen campaign group UK

target high street chains including Vodafone, Boots and Barclays.

Hewlett-Packard

HP’s bombshell revelations

where it holds the global No. 1 spot

TouchPad

Apple (AAPL) has positioned its iPad very well for years to come against challengers in the tablet market.

Apple’s iPad was announced in January 2010

no tablet has caught up to what Apple offers.

happy with a Google (GOOG) Android Honeycomb tablet; fewer have purchased a BlackBerry (RIMM) Playbook.

third-party app support,

table the TouchPad?

For most people, the iPad is the most complete tablet available.

Apple holds the tablet crown.

phone apps,

a media store,

tens of millions were already used to.

earliest

tablet contenders appeared and they’re just now gaining certain key features: movie stores, for example, and stretch and zoom capabilities for phone apps. Consumers want a complete tablet experience, not one that’s “coming soon.”

HP’s $1.2 billion investment in webOS persuaded me that it was in the tablet race for the long haul. I defended the company’s move to sell the TouchPad at a discount and even bought one, only to find out days later that I was wrong: HP wasn’t selling the tablet at low prices to expand the user base quickly and help attract developers. HP apparently gave the TouchPad only a brief chance to gain an audience.

swiftly pulled.

a 1.5GHz dual-core processor, 4.3-inch qHD (960×540) touchscreen, a dedicated camera button, a dedicated video button, an 8MP rear camera, a 2MP front camera, 1GB of RAM, and Bluetooth 3.0.

HTC Ruby

handset rumor roundup,

be more powerful than the Hercules (S II),

1.2GHz dual-core processor and a 4.3-inch 480×800 screen. Both phones will be “4G” capable, meaning they will run on T-Mobile’s high-speed HSPA+ network.This is all speculation, of course, as is most early handset news. Handset manufacturers don’t

like to announce release dates or device information before the day of launch, likely because of how fast the industry moves an

d how much control is in the hands of the wireless carriers, which have a good amount of power over handset sales here in the United States.

Samsung is holding a Galaxy S II event on August 29.