The materials he uses in his creations are often technological cast-offs from family and friends, or garbage scavenged from electronics recycling facilities.

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Tapping family friends, he began trading textiles and electronics with crumbling Soviet factories while living with his parents and finishing a degree in economics at York University.

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Mr Bidve, who was a postgraduate student in micro-electronics, was visiting Greater Manchester with friends over the festive period when he was killed.

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Let's just hope that our British friends are a little more dignified when it comes to waiting for consumer electronics than we are.

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High Definition movies and stills can be shared with family and friends on an HD television via HDMI output, and control slideshows and video using the HDMI Consumer Electronics Control (CEC) interface that is a part of most modern remote controls from HDTV manufacturers.

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