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/ 21 October 2004

Wired for winter

Technology has conquered the latest winter fashions with clothing keeping you not only warm and dry but fitted with anything from a cellphone display to multimedia or lighting systems. An integrated control pad can be found in the sleeve of a winter jacket produced by O’Neill to operate an MP3 player or cellphone.

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/ 10 August 2004

Laurel und Hardy

Film historians have found a rare Laurel and Hardy short that the famed comedy duo filmed for German audiences — speaking their lines in phonetic German. The 1931 short is being hailed as one of the rare examples of the fad in early talkies of having stars speak their own lines in another language for foreign audiences.

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/ 1 August 2004

Bagle is back

A new variant of the Bagle virus is spreading quickly around the world on computers connected to the internet, reports the Munich-based magazine PC Professionell. The latest variant, Bagle.AI, attaches itself to e-mail on infected computers and sends itself to all e-mail addresses contained in a user’s address book.

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/ 2 February 2004

Shock anatomist on trail of giant

Controversial anatomist Gunther von Hagens, whose touring show of flayed human bodies has shocked Germany, has offered a large sum to giant Alexander Sizonenko, the world’s biggest man, a newspaper reported on Monday. The former Russian basketball player is 2,48m tall and weighs 200kg.