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Basketball stats shown live on players' shirts.

Basketball vests (singlets) with electroluminescent displays that show a player"s score, and number of fouls, are being trialled in Australia. The vests can also display more general information, like the amount of time left in a game. This gives players greater confidence in their team"s tactics, say the researchers involved. (New Scientist)

At last, Corel announces support for ODF, Open XML.

Ottawa (ON) - Some decisions take time. Answering the question whether to implement support for the Open Document Format in its Word Perfect software or not, took Corel more than a year. At last, the long-time supporter of ODF today announced that it will update WordPerfect Office to support the XML-based ODF as well as Microsoft"s Open Office XML format.

Orange County Plastic Surgery Practice Cautions on Imaging Software

While more cosmetic surgery practices nationwide are using imaging software to give patients a glimpse of what their results could look like, Dr. Andrew Smith cautions that imaging technology should not replace a discussion with a qualified surgeon.

Tom's Hardware interviews Jeff Hsieh, CEO of GEIL.

Wrapping up our Computex 2006 coverage for this year, Tom"s Hardware just published a video interview with Jeff Hsieh, chief executive officer of performance memory maker GEIL. Hsieh provides insight not only in the history of his company but also talks about the challenges of catering to overclockers and upcoming technologies, such as DDR3 memory as well as memory modules that integrate their own power supply.

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