He was 17 when he appeared, briefly, as the shop delivery boy Perkins in the 1939 film Goodbye Mr Chips.

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They all have one thing in common: instead of using light to expose film, they capture images electronically on disks or memory chips.

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It also likes companies that are working on making smaller batteries, like Qynergy, a New Mexico-based company working on radioisotope batteries, and Infinite Power Solutions, a Colorado developer of thin-film batteries that can power RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tracking chips.

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As good as they've gotten, the imaging chips in traditional digital cameras still fall far short of the human eye, and even film, when it comes to dynamic range.

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