Latest World Soccer Winning Eleven 2010 (Tokyo Show '09)

At Tokyo Game Show 2009, Konami exhibited World Soccer Winning Eleven 2010, the latest version of its soccer game, which has already sold 55 million copies worldwide. The idea of this game is to reproduce the ultimate in both individual and team skills. As well as new motion capture from image character Messi, the game has seven types of feint – more than ever before - and over 300 new motions have been added. In addition, the game has two new tactical systems: A slider to control offensive and defensive styles for the team overall, and Play Style Cards, which indicate players’ individual styles. World Soccer Winning Eleven 2010 will be released in Japan on November 5. Both the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions will be priced at 7,980 yen including tax. http://mobile123-mobile.blogspot.com/

Researchers developed - CARBON NANOTUBES

Carbon nanotubes are a promising material for making display control circuits because they're more efficient than silicon and can be arrayed on flexible surfaces. Until recently, though, making nanotubes into transistors has been a painstaking process. Now researchers at the University of Southern California have demonstrated large, functional arrays of transistors made using simple methods from batches of carbon nanotubes that are relatively impure.

The pixels in a computer or television screen, whether it's an LCD or plasma, are each controlled by several transistors. In today's devices, these transistors are made from silicon. Arrays of these transistors need to be made at high temperatures and in a vacuum, so they're very expensive, says Chongwu Zhou, an associate professor of electrical engineering at USC and researcher on the nanotube project.
Transistors have also been made from carbon nanotubes, but that, too, presents challenges. "Many people use one nanotube to make a very small, high-performance transistor" for computer chips, says Zhou. But that one-to-one ratio won't work for displays, in which a large surface must be covered in transistors. "If we use one nanotube for one transistor, the yield will never be high enough" to work for large-scale manufacturing of big screens, he says. Zhou believes his approach will solve this problem by making larger transistors from mats of nanotubes.

The USC researchers make large arrays of carbon nanotube transistors using solution-processing techniques at room temperature. They start by placing a silicon wafer in a chemical bath to coat its surface with a nanotube-attracting chemical, then rinse off the residue. The treated wafer is then immersed in a solution of semiconducting carbon nanotubes, which are attracted to its surface. The wafer, now coated with a carpet of nanotubes, is rinsed clean again. To make transistors from this tangled mess, the researchers put down metal electrodes at selected locations. The electrodes define where each transistor is and carry electrons into and out of the nanotubes that lie between them. Areas of silicon underlying each device act as the transistors' gates. So far, they've built a prototype device on a four-inch silicon wafer and used it to control a simple organic light-emitting diode display. http://mobile123-mobile.blogspot.com/