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“Currently when you take photos, the middle part of the picture is very clear but when you go to the edge, it is not so clear,” Huang said. “The curved technology will make the entire picture clear.”

 But the applications extend beyond taking better vacation photos.

 ”It really extends to all of the electronics that we use on humans. You want to have a curved surface to fit the human body. That is really the place it can be used,” he said.

 Huang said the device could be used to make better imaging equipment, such as curved sensors to monitor brain activity that follow the contours of the brain. It could even be used in the development of an artificial retina or a bionic eye.

 ”If you want to develop an eye to replace a human eye, certainly you want the shape to look like a human eye,” he said.

 ”Right now we’ve already got a camera working. It works very well with computers. It’s just how to connect the camera to the brain. That is the issue to be solved,” he said.

Singer Miley Cyrus performs on NBC’s “Today” show in New York July 25, 2008. [Agencies]

Singer Miley Cyrus performs on NBC’s “Today” show in New York July 25, 2008. [Agencies]

Miley Cyrus, 15, has been offered $1 million to sign up as the new face of LifeStyles Condoms. The ‘Hannah Montana’ star - who has previously expressed her desire to wait until she is married before having sex - is considered the most “influential” teenager in modern society, according to LifeStyles Condoms Vice President Carol Carrozza.

Carla Bruni revealed she’d had 15 lovers

Carla Bruni is now married to French President Nicolas Sarkozy - were the 15 lovers she had before him too many?

London - When Carla Bruni revealed that she’d had 15 lovers before she married Nicolas Sarkozy, there was a collective sharp intake of breath.

‘What a slut!’ gasped some people, tut-tutting away. While others, equally shocked, asked: ‘Only 15? That’s peanuts!’

A Kuna Yala woman sells her molas work, which are an ancient Panamanian art form created from fabric and worn by the Kuna Yala people, during the annual national Handicraft Fair held at the ATLAPA Convention Center in Panama city, capital of Panama, July 30, 2008. (Xinhua Photo)

The annual national Handicraft Fair is held at the ATLAPA Convention Center in Panama city, capital of Panama, July 30, 2008. The fair opened here is held from Wednesday, July 30 through Sunday, August 3.

Bottles of Johnson’s baby shampoo are on display in a store in New York in this file photo. (AP Photo)

Johnson & Johnson has bought top Chinese cosmetics firm Beijing Dabao, the firm said on Wednesday, wrapping up a deal estimated at more than $300 million and aimed at expanding the US giant’s shares in the Chinese market.

Johnson & Johnson, which vies with the likes of Unilever to sell cosmetics and healthcare products to a retail consumer market growing at double digits annually, won a bidding war with Avon and Unilever and will pay 2.3 billion yuan ($337 million) for Dabao.

The US firm did not disclose the financial terms for the completed acquisition on Wednesday.

China’s fragmented cosmetics and healthcare market hosts more than 3,500 distinct brands, local newspapers have reported.

But global consumer and healthcare product firms such as Procter & Gamble are nonetheless pondering acquisitions in China to shore up and expand market share, with rip-roaring economic growth creating a newly monied middle class.

Underscoring the market’s attraction, L’Oreal bought popular local brands Mini Nurse and Yue Sai in 2004.

Dabao, a firm owned by the Beijing Sanlu Factory, cranks out a variety of self-branded, herbal cosmetics from skin cream to hair products. It exports to more than 30 countries, including the United States and Japan, according to its Web site.

In 2006, the firm posted a meagre 41.7 million yuan ($6.1 million) of net profit on sales of 675.2 million.