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Toshiba Develops World's Smallest Fuel Cells
An anonymous reader writes "When you think of Toshiba, you might think of notebooks, but fuel cells? Never. Well, at least not until up to now. Toshiba claims to have made the world's smallest fuel cell to date. The direct methanol fuel cell can fit inside of the smallest of gadgets, ranging from MP3 Players to portal DVD Players. Most fuel cells require a pump that can mix the methanol and water, and a fan to help cool the pump. This makes installing fuel cells in smaller items out of the question. However, Toshiba's new fuel cell does not require a fan or a pump to operate, which means it's much smaller in size, and can be installed in almost any small device."
It doesn't hurt my eyes at all. Graphics design is not about colours in general but about contrast.
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Off topic but..
Might I suggest installing "PrefBar"? It's a XPI add-on for Mozilla that will allow you to toggle, among other things, webmaster color preferences. To use it, you would go to the offending page, deselect "color" in the prefbar, and reload. It'll be black on white after that (or whatever color scheme is your default).
I'll bite... Graphic Design is not about contrast either. (and yes, I am a Graphic Designer). Contrast is ONE of many things one must consider, along with Form, White Space, Color, etc. MOST importantly however, is communicating your message effectively. While white on black works in print, it does not translate to the web correctly, precisely because it's such an eyesore, so yes, the grandparent was right in saying so.
You may think I am overly worried, but having a can of compressed methanol sitting around to power kids iPods causes visions them huffing the stuff to pop into my head.
The inhalant fact sheet at rimrock.org has methanol listed as a common inhalent.
Does anybody know of any studies being done to see what having EASY access to methanol will do?
I'm not in graphics design in any way, but my guess would be that for fat fonts (that you find in most terminals), white on black is more pleasing to the eyes than thin fonts (as you find on most webpages).
That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. I program for a living. Myself and everyone in my office (more than 30 other people) write code in a white-on-black IDE. For a reason. Staring at a bright white screen causes serious eyestain during the course of a day.
Black-on-white is a ridiculous Windows invention designed to make your screen look like paper. Reassuring for the casual user, horrendous for anyone who looks at a screen for long periods of time.
All user-friendly websites are white-on-black. In fact, I prefer gray-on-black, as it is even easier on the eyes. Blinding white is the last thing I want to see.
Random and weird software I've written.
I'll get modded off-topic but whatthehell..... Just load this bookmarklet code as a bookmark and call it when you run into charcoal print on a black background -
javascript:(function(){var newSS, styles='* { background: white ! important; color: black !important }
I call mine Re-Colour.
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Are you sure white on black isn't bad?
Black on white is very nice at first, but makes my eyes hurt after a while.
White on black makes my eyes turn square immediately, but isn't quite as bad in a long-term situation
I very much prefer other schemes with more muted colors. both of my favorites have a tan color on a darker muted color, and tehy seem to get the best of both worlds. I don't get headaches from looking at them, and my eyes don't hurt after hours of coding.
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