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"LG on Thursday unveiled the world's first plastic e-paper display, which the company claims will "revolutionize the E-Book market." The 6-inch E Ink display features 1,024 x 768-pixel resolution and can bend at an angle of up to 40 degrees. "With the world's first plastic EPD, LG Display has once again proven its reputation for leadership and innovation with a product we believe will help greatly popularize the E-Book market," said Mr. Sang Duck Yeo, Head of Operations for LG Display's Mobile/OLED division. "Based on our success in mass-producing plastic EPD, we are excited as we look toward applying concepts from this experience to future developments like plastic OLED and flexible displays." The display will be supplied to manufacturing companies in China first, and end-user products could launch in Europe as soon as the beginning of next month. Read on for LG's press release. "

News: The car will have no steering wheel or pedals. Ford has announced plans to deliver a fully autonomous vehicle made for the mass market by 2021, with the car specifically designed for ride sharing. In order to get to its 2021 target, Ford will be investing in or collaborating with four start-ups to enhance the autonomous vehicle development.

The new wrist grabbing tracker called TomTom Touch literally has a range of jaw dropping features and capabilities including measuring the body mass.

The latest cell phone models nowadays are way better than the ones introduced when mass mobile communication was still in its infancy. You cannot imagine now owning those bulky and boring looking mobile phones that started the craze years ago. Nowadays, mobile phones have earned the right to be called minicomputers as they can do more than take and make calls. They are now more commonly called smartphones as they can do a lot more things. You can play games, watch a movie, listen to music, surf the Internet, send email and do many other things with this small gadget.

"For some the phone bill is a more terrifying idea than an oxygen bill because (1) it actually exists and (2) because plants don't give out free wireless connections. While one group brace themselves for the final figure every month, others prefer to store up a single terrifying bill by pre-authorising payments. That way, the wireless expenses disappear into the endless mass of the credit card debt, which is the worst thing you can do, as examining your bill is the only way to avoid repeating mistakes, added fees, or companies who'll add a monthly subscription because you sent them a text message once."

Sprint believes that the HTC EVO 4G can compete with Apple's upcoming phone, the iPhone 4, and thus prevent the usual mass summer exodus to AT&T.

The concept of VoIP is now rather popular. Perhaps the main reason why VoIP phones and VoIP services have gained immense popularity in a rather short span of time is the mass usage of broadband connections, not just at offices, but at homes as well. VoIP phone services make use of the Internet to make calls.

Apparently, Apple is going to start mass producing a CDMA version of the iPhone at the end of this year with a launch on Verizon sometime in early 2011. Oh, and Apple is also working on the iPhone 5G.

The Nexus S along with its Gingerbread flavored Android is now available to the masses thorough Best Buy.

Mere hours after Google released the Nexus S to the masses, it has been rooted. Here's how to do it.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has let the Windows Phone 7 masses know that the highly anticipated first update for the software, which includes copy and paste, will arrive sometime in early March.

Google has launched a project to bring the benefits of its Chrome rendering and JavaScript engines to the benighted masses forced to use Internet Explorer - and Microsoft isn't happy.

Aytac Architects unveil their design for the DE Museum in Bodrum, Turkey, where the built mass defies typological museum models to be defined by the sum of its many parts, in contrast to a single, monolithic structure.

'Light' and 'vision' are like two sides of the same coin. Read here about the breakthrough that can benefit the visually challenged en masse. Do give us your feedback...

Kaohsiung Metro is a mass rapid transit system in Kaohsiung, Taiwan's second-largest city. In an effort to reduce the heavy reliance on road transport within its city centre, the Kaohsiung Rapid Transit Corporation (KRTC) has developed a 42.7km network of two lines, which is the first stage of a much larger system.