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Bottle makes dirty water drinkable

What a great invention: He said: "Something had to be done. It took me a little while and some very frustrating prototypes but eventually I did it." Conventional filters can cut out bacteria measuring more than 200 nanometres but not viruses, which typically are 25 nanometres long. Mr Pritchard's bottle can clean up any water - including faecal matter - using a filter that cuts out anything longer than 15 nanometres, which means that viruses can be filtered out without the use of chemicals. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/12/nwater112.xml Now if only they could make something similar for adware infested software...

Apple - To all iPhone customers

Apple's CEO, Steve Jobs, wrote an open letter to the early adopters of the iPhone where he defends the recent price-drop but also says they will give these early adopters a $100 store credit "towards the purchase of any product at an Apple Retail Store or the Apple Online Store." So if you bought the iPhone early-on, you only wasted $100 for that " I got it first " feeling and brag-rights (ouch). Read the letter: Apple - To all iPhone customers