Top Stories –
Apple introduce the “iPad” –
Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs introduces the “iPad” a new tablet with no keyboard or mouse. Designed for browsing the internet, it is 0.5 inches (13mm) thick and weighs just 1.5 pounds (680g). The iPad, which will launch in March for $499 (16Gb version), includes 12 new apps and will run most of the 140,000 apps in the App Store. Jobs described the iPad as “a magical and revolutionary device at an unbelievable price.”
Steve Jobs with the iPad
Throw out the running shoes –
Dr Daniel Lieberman, professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University reveals that running barefoot is better than wearing running shoes. The researchers found that people who run barefoot tend to land on the ball or the middle of the foot, moving smoothly, but those who run in shoes tend to land on the heels, sending shockwaves through the body.
Bubble Wrap hits middle age –
Bubble Wrap is 50 years old. It was first invented by Marc Chavannes and Al Fielding as textured wallpaper and there are more than 250 dedicated Facebook pages. Sealed Air who owns the patent and manufactures Bubble Wrap makes more than $4bn a year.
Top Video –
The first Mackintosh commercial (1984)
Top List –
Ten best things Apple have invented
- Apple II (1977)
- The first Macintosh – the 128J (1984)
- The iMac (1998)
- The iPod (2001)
- The iPod nano (2005)
- The iPod classic (2007)
- The iPhone (2007)
- iTunes (2001)
- The iPad (2010)
- Apple stores (2001)
Top News –
- At least 20 people are injured after a five-storey apartment building collapses following a gas explosion in Liège,Belgium. (The Daily Telegraph) (The Canadian Press) (RTÉ)
- Machu Picchu mudslides:
- New Zealanders, Britons, Chinese and Irish tourists are among the thousands trapped after mudslides in the Incancapital Machu Picchu. (The New Zealand Herald) (Sky News) (China Daily) (RTÉ)
- Some wealthier tourists pay $500 to escape the devastation which has killed at least 10 people. (The Times)
- Aftermath of 2010 Haiti earthquake:
- UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown says seven-year-old Charlie Simpson, who rode five miles and raised more than £200,000 for the 2010 Haiti earthquake fund, is “truly inspirational” as his spouse Sarah Brown meets him in his absence at Downing Street. (BBC)
- Pop star Susan Boyle is “shocked but unharmed” after disturbing an intruder at her house in Scotland as she returns from recording her part for Simon Cowell‘s charity single for Haiti. (The Times) (CNN) (Washington Post)
- Incumbent President of Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa is declared the winner of Sunday’s presidential election, defeatingopposition candidate Sarath Fonseka. (BBC)
- North Korea fires artillery shots into the sea near the disputed Northern Limit Line maritime border, with South Koreareturning fire. (Yonhap) (BBC) (Times of India)
- Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Taoiseach Brian Cowen leave Northern Ireland after three days spent discussing its future. (RTÉ) (BBC)
- The highest surface wind gust ever recorded of 220 kt at Barrow Island, Australia in 1996 is ratified by the WMO.(Arizona State University) (WMO).
- Ireland is hit by two earthquakes over a 24-hour period, described as “unusual” by experts. (RTÉ) (BBC) (The Irish Times)
- The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom overturns two Orders in Council that froze the assets of unconvicted suspects in terrorism cases. (BBC News)
- The Secretary of the Treasury of the U.S., Timothy Geithner, appears before a committee of the United States House of Representatives to discuss his actions in 2008, when he was the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, in the rescue of troubled insurance industry giant AIG. (New York Times)
- Steve Jobs unveils the Apple iPad, a tablet PC at a press conference in San Francisco. (Engadget)
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