With a smaller image sensor, a lens designed for a 35mm camera captures only the inner part of the image, cropping off the edges that the sub-size sensor chip can't see.

ECONOMIST: A die-hard analog photographer goes digital

In order to compete with the kingpin of that space, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its Elastic Compute Cloud, Google has bolstered its platform with new features, including shared-core instances for low-intensity chores, advanced routing, large persistent disks up to 10TB in volume size and sub-hour billing to keep costs down.

ENGADGET

But the Bold 9900 also features a fixed-focus camera, no front-facing camera, only single-core processor technology and a sub-3 inch screen size.

FORBES: Blackberry Bold Launches On Track - Pricing Is Problematic

The key to cracking that nut is apparently the new thermal assisted optical element Fujitsu's developed, allowing for an ultra-tiny sub-hundred nanometer optical spot size, which in turn should enable recording on the one terabit (not byte, let's not get crazy here) per square inch level.

ENGADGET: Fujitsu building a bigger, smaller hard drive

This could shrink the size and cost of building giant accelerators, which produce sub-atomic particles.

ECONOMIST: Ultra-fast lasers

General Motors India, which has introduced the mid-size Opel Astra, has announced plans to introduce the sub-compact Corsa in September next year.

CNN: INDIA'S CAR WARS

In the power generation segment, the solutions offered in the Packaged Solutions include fully integrated sub-system solutions for the protection and control of generators ranging from tens of kilowatts to hundreds of megawatts in size.

FORBES: GE Targets High-Growth Power Equipment Market with Packaged Solutions