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The new kindle stumbles
Online bookseller Amazon has launched a large-screen version of its popular kindle eBook reader. The kindle DX has a 9.7 inch screen, almost four inches bigger than the standard model, and opens up two new markets: newspapers and textbooks. It costs $489 and can store up to 3,500 books on its 3.3 GB of internal memory. Like the original kindle, this one has won kudos from a beleaguered newspaper industry and the lucrative textbook industry.

$30,000 personal computer
The new Monseual 701 Jewellry PC is designed for millionaires. The computer costs around $30,000 and is the most expensive one ever to be made in Korea, according to media reports. It consists of an impressive 3,554 crystals (Swarovski of course) and a PC case that is created out of glass and gold. It also has 500 GB of storage space thanks to the included hard disk, an Intel Core 2 Duo CPU, the ATI Radeon HD 4000 and some built in speakers.

World’s fastest camera
Researchers have demonstrated the fastest imaging system ever devised. The new camera’s shutter speed is just a half a billionth of a second, and is able to continuously capture over six million images in a second, they reported in the Nature. Its “flashbulb” is a fast laser pulse dispersed in space and then stretched in time and detected electronically. The approach will be instrumental in imaging fast-moving or random events, such as communication between neurons.