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Vincent Padois, head tutor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University who teaches robotics and is babysitting the Paris ICub, makes a demonstration with ICub robot, a ?hybrid embodied cognitive system for a humanoid robot" about 1 metre (3.2 feet) high, at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris September 4, 2009. Six versions of ICub exist in laboratories across Europe, where scientists are painstakingly tweaking its electronic brain to make it capable of learning, just like a human child and hoping it will learn how to adapt its behaviour to changing circumstances, offering new insights into the development of human consciousness. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

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    Taiwan's PVI in talks to buy Hydis LCD plant: report

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    Tue Nov 20, 2007 11:20pm EST

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    TAIPEI (Reuters) - Prime View International (PVI) (8069.TWO), a Taiwanese maker of small display panels, is negotiating to buy a third-generation LCD plant from South Korea's Hydis, a local newspaper reported on Wednesday.

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    Prime View, which makes flexible displays for electronic books, is looking for new supply sources to meet strong demand, the Chinese-language Economic Daily News said, without citing sources.

    Officials at the firms could not immediately be reached for comment.

    The report spurred a surge in Prime View's shares to near their daily 7-percent limit in early trade on Wednesday. Taiwan's main TAIEX index fell 0.25 percent.

    Prime View and others are developing and producing a new generation of thin electronic displays, or e-paper, that need no added light source to read.

    E-paper is already in the market in handheld e-books that allow hundreds of books to be downloaded onto them via the Internet.

    Amazon.com (AMZN.O), the world's largest Web retailer, said on Monday it will begin selling an electronic book reader "Kindle" with wireless access, the latest attempt to build consumer interest in portable reading devices.

    Prime View supplies its displays to Amazon and Sony Corp (6758.T), which also sells e-books.

    (US$1=T$32.3)

    (Reporting by Baker Li, Editing by Dominic Whiting)
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