Even Rabbit Angstrom, John Updike's American Everyman, ended up in a Florida condo.

ECONOMIST: The growth of private communities

Though it ships from Texas Instruments with Angstrom Linux on board, it's also tuned to support Android and Ubuntu, and arrives pre-loaded with the Cloud9 IDE.

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Angstrom Medica hopes to use this to customise NanOss to produce implants suitable for patients of different ages: compared to the elderly, young people require implants that can be absorbed rapidly.

ECONOMIST: Nanotechnology