Additionally, the scanning technology itself has been upgraded to handle faster pass-over rates, meaning that scanning an A3 sheet can be done smoothly and quickly.

ENGADGET: LG announces LSM-100 Scanner Mouse, saves valuable desk space

If the gas sheet had the same density throughout, radio waves would pass through it without distortion, like light through a window pane.

ECONOMIST: Pulsars: In a wink | The

Standing silently but amiably to one side, he would unbolt the magic boxes, hold the ropes, demonstrate the emptiness of beakers and pots, confirm the thickness of a sheet of glass before a near-naked girl would climb into a magic box and pass straight through it!

ECONOMIST: Ali Bongo | The