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Demonstrations of “flexible” displays are a staple technique seems to from the screens were small enough for us to carry.

This week, Samsung has given the strongest sign yet that the hi-tech devices could become a reality.

The company introduced the “flexible” AMOLED display 4.5 inches across and only 0.3mm thick, in January this year.

Reports this week hint that the phone technology – which can be “rolled up” and survive the hammer blows – is shown in the second quarter of next year.

The technology relies on Atom-thick “graphene” – sheets of carbon atoms – with aluminum foil, protective layer of liquid crystal “display”.

Earlier this year, reports leaked that Samsung had the ability to produce large amounts of evidence “early 2012” – but no one knew what they could be.

Later, photos of the concept phone uses technology – Galaxy Skin – appeared. The skin was a project carried out by design students, using the Samsung logo and a trademark of Galaxy.

But the technology has huge potential.

Graphene phone screens are practically unbreakable, and provide an instant advantage over any other smartphone on the market.

Now, according to reports from the International Business Times, concept phones, similar to the skin could be on sale early next year.

The report was remarkably specific, stating that the handset would provide information, including high-resolution 800 × 480 flexible AMOLED display, eight-megapixel camera and 1GB of RAM and 1.2GHz processor.

Specifications for sound suspiciously similar spec Samsung’s current flagship, the S Galaxy II, however.

Will Findlater, editor of Stuff Magazine told the Mail Online today: “AMOLED display is already in the mobile technology to win, so is it as good as promised, a flexible AMOLED could stop drunk smartphone screens – and the tablets, which are even more fragile.”

Potential of the tablets can be folded away smartphone is a particularly exciting – you would have two gadgets for the price of one, “said Findlater.

It is perhaps wise to be a little skeptical, however.

Samsung has not made an official product announcement, and while they certainly can produce such technology – it was freely discussed earlier this year – the “gap” between that and a working phone ready for mass production is immense.

Astronomers believe they have an entire planet made of diamonds found.

Scientists at the University of Manchester believe they have a once-massive star in the Milky Way, which is transformed into a small planet made of precious stones excavated.

The international research team first detected an unusual star, called a pulsar, and followed their discovery in the study using a telescope is housed in an observatory in Cheshire.

The findings led scientists to the appeal of a small planetary companion orbiting the pulsar to be discovered.

Pulsars are small rotating stars more than ten miles in diameter – the size of a small town – that a beam of radio waves.

The team also includes scientists from Australia, Germany, Italy and the United States, believes that the ‘diamond planet’ is all that remains of the original star, most of which case was transferred to the pulsar.

The companion planet is small, with less than 40,000 miles wide – about five times the diameter of Earth.

But it’s so close to the pulsar, that if the greater would be torn apart by the gravity of the star, which more than 10,000 rotations per minute and has a mass about 1.4 times that of the Sun

Research team member Dr. Michael Keith said: “This remnant is probably largely carbon and oxygen, for a star made of lighter elements like hydrogen and helium would be too big to fit the measured time job. ”

The density means that this material is sure to be crystalline, ie, a large part of the star may be similar to a diamond.

The pulsar, called PSR J1719-1438, and his planet are part of the plane of the galaxy of stars and located 4,000 light-years away in the constellation Serpens – the Snake.

The modulations in the radio pulses astronomers said some things about the planet.

It revolves around the pulsar in just two hours and ten minutes, and the distance between two objects is about 373,000 miles – slightly less than the radius of our Sun

Despite its small size, the planet is slightly more massive than Jupiter.

About 70 percent of the millisecond pulsars have companions of a sort.

Astronomers believe that the companion star in its form, an old, dead pulsar transforms into a millisecond pulsar by the transfer of matter and spinning to a very high speed.

The result is a rapidly rotating millisecond pulsar with a shrunken companion – usually a white dwarf.

“I think it’s worth a raised eyebrow,” says the author Brooks Agnew. He’s a lot of research on cultivated land, and told RT that there are some strange coincidences in relation to the comet, consider the people should do.

“A lot of people are concerned about them,” says Agnew. “We have a lot of research done on Comet cultivated land, and what we have found there is a lot of missing data on this comet”

Agnew says that NASA comet just “a harmless little Fuzzball of ice” that do not come within more than 20 million miles from Earth calls. Others, he says, claim that this comet should arouse concern, since it does not look like a comet, not to act like a comet and from outside the region where most comets used to come to come out.

“There are a lot of things about this comet that make no sense,” says Agnew.

Another thing, even for the author’s fears that another large asteroid is expected to come near the earth, around the same time. Coincidentally, he says, a new emergency warning system has been announced for the first time on the same day that asteroid right rock from our planet.

Agnew agreed that the allegations discussed the impact of the cultivated land for centuries, and says that people do not just shrug it off as spinners theories. “We have to say by experts, everything is made well, but those of us watching the characters cosmological, geological character [and] characters were oceanographic show that it would be the trend that the ancients said happened.”

“What we should know is that the projections [are] very much appreciated. There are a lot of forces working on this comet as it passes through our solar system is moving from a very off-angle, and not all of them were calculated. were so somehow makes a guess where this thing will end – and maybe a guess not good enough. ”

If projections are not enough evidence, says Agnew, to no more than the major world governments. Both the U.S. and Russia a fortune in new underground shelters have invested, and the author says, there must be a reason for it. NASA, he says, also recently added a video distributed to the families of the employees to advise them what to do in the event of an impending emergency.

With minimal chance for contamination of the meteorite samples, scientists are confident that these meteorite specimens were formed in space. “People have been discovering components of DNA in meteorites since the 1960’s, but researchers were unsure whether they were really created in space or if instead they came from contamination by terrestrial life,” Michael Callahan, lead author of the study on the discovery, said in a statement.

The research team analyzed twelve carbon rich meteorites, nine of which were from Antarctica, to positively identify the basic elements of the chemical compounds they extracted from the samples. Testing revealed adenine and guanine, two fundamental components of DNA called nucleobases.

DNA is shaped like a double helix, or twisted ladder, and the rungs of that ladder are each comprised of two nucleobases, either a pairing of adenine and thymine or of guanine and cytosine. The ladder is essentially a long string of genetic code that tells cells in an organism which proteins to make. Those proteins then play critical roles in organism growth and function, making everything from hair to enzymes.

Scientists also found hypoxanthine and xanthine, two other chemicals used in biological processes and found in muscle tissue.

The meteorites also contained trace amounts of three molecules associated with nucleobases, called nucleobase analogs, but two of those are almost never seen in biology, providing the necessary proof that these DNA components were actually created in outer space.

In fact the only record of any of these nucleobases in biologic processes is within a virus. Callahan said in the NASA press release that “if asteroids are behaving like chemical ‘factories’ cranking out prebiotic material, you would expect them to produce many variants of nucleobases, not just the biological ones, due to the wide variety of ingredients and conditions in each asteroid,” and that is exactly what these researchers found. He says the nucleobases found, biological or not, can also be created in a lab setting, using the basic compounds hydrogen cyanide, ammonia, and water.

This finding contributes further to the growing collection of evidence that asteroids and comets are comprised of the proper chemicals to generate the building blocks of life. Some seem to have the ideal internal chemistry for the job.

“In fact, there seems to be a ‘goldilocks’ class of meteorites,” Callahan said in a statement, “the so called CM2 meteorites, where conditions are just right to make more of these molecules.”

Apple has been working on a plan that will allow concert halls, sporting arenas and other venues to install infrared sensors that will detect iPhones going into camera mode and promptly disable the device’s ability to snap a shot or film a video. Explicitly, the patent states that it will use new technology to “capture a second image that includes an infrared signal with encoded data” and from there could shut-down a phone’s recording capability or else introduce a compulsory watermark.

Other functions of the phone would not be halted upon being located by the sensors.

While Apple is working on the product to combat bootlegging concerts and other unauthorized recording, the patent also notes that the infared emitter could be used to transfer data, such as in a museum. There iPhone users can be transmitted info about exhibits straight to their phone upon entering the signal’s range.

Technology writer James Holland says, however, that implementing such a large-scale installation would be “a large undertaking.”

Holland also notes that, “a patent is just an expression of an idea, and no guarantee Apple’s actually building it into the iPhone.”

The move is without a doubt a reflection of the recording industry’s continuing battle with bootleggers. Event organizers, broadcasters, performers and their parties are often allowed exclusive rights to their performances, but as unofficially-released content is leaked to YouTube, the audience can (and often) opts for free, unauthorized accounts of a live events, rather than paying promoters and groups for their own content.

And while Apple may eventually implement this technology to render recording from iPhones impossible, no other cell phone giants, including Blackberry or Android, have disclosed details of following suit.

Apple users have often found workarounds for many of the iPhones features since it was released, too. The hacking or “jailbreaking” of devices allows users with the knowhow to unlock all features of the Apple iOS, allowing for modification and the customizing of the phone’s operating system and its capabilities. With hackers this week infiltrating the servers of both the Senate and the CIA, a new iPhone mod to combat infared sensors is presumably all too possible.

If you were to ask comedian Doug Stanhope about his thoughts on bootlegging, however, the stand-up has quite a bit to say about the negative aspects of bringing cell phones to shows. Speaking to Philadelphia Weekly earlier this year, Stanhope said,“at every show there’s some(one) with a cell phone camera putting s*** on YouTube—I’ll have people in Baltimore yelling out jokes I did in DC the night before. It could be brand new jokes.”

“Videos on YouTube, for comedy, it’s like they’re giving away the ending of the movie.”

Adds Stanhope, “another way that cell phone cameras just destroy the atmosphere is it’s live and it’s in the moment and it’s temporary. When people are…recording it … immediately you just see these…tourists of life, you know? You’re here…live, man, and you’re staring at me through a lens on a cell phone.”

Apple had filed for the patent in 2009 but word of it was only released this week.

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