Berlin - Bertram Meyer leans over his desk and tugs at his computer's monitor cable. He disconnects the keyboard and packs up his computer mouse. A case of energy drinks are waiting in the hallway of his Berlin apartment. He packs a sleeping pad, sleeping bag, and inflatable neck rest.

"I'm taking that along in case I get tired," he says. The question of whether he'll sleep at all remains open, since Bertram is on his way to a network party. If everything has been properly organised, he'll probably have little down time - but all the more gaming fun instead.

Washington, Aug. 16 : Cosmic cartographers are starting work on the biggest 3D map of the universe so far. It should reveal an undulating landscape sculpted by the big bang, and might give us a clue to the underlying shape of space and the nature of the "dark energy" that is blowing the universe apart.

The Sloan III project is the latest in a sequence of sky-surveys using a special wide-angle telescope sited in Sunspot, New Mexico.

San Francisco  - T-Mobile is to launch the first phone based on Google's Android design on September 17, in hopes that the new device will compete with Apple's iPhone, Wired magazine reported Friday.

The smartphone will be manufactured by Taiwan-based High Tech Computer, and will have a large touch screen that slides out to reveal a five-row QWERTY keyboard. The device, which will be called the G1, will sell for 150 dollars to T-Mobile customers in the first week of launch before it is offered to other customers at a higher price.

Seoul - "Low Carbon, Green Growth" will be South Korea's vision for the next six decades said President Lee Myung Bak Friday in a speech marking the nation's 60th anniversary.

"Now is the time for us to turn the recent surge in oil prices into an opportunity to transform economic fundamentals and create new growth engines," said the president who has been in power since February.

The government will introduce a package of measures against climate change next month that Lee says will promote job creation and overcome challenges from climate change and sky-high oil prices by utilizing green technology and clean energy.

Kourou/Paris  - With its ninth successful rocket launch mission in 12 months, European space company Arianespace appears set to establish itself as a world market leader in satellite transport.

Ariane 5 ECA rocket took off from the launch centre in Kourou in French Guiana on Thursday night to place communication satellites Superbird-7 and AMC 21 into orbit.

"I think it is a perfect illustration of the fact that high performance, reliability and increase of pace can go hand-in-hand," said Arianespace chairman and CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall.

Washington, August 15 : A motorcycle that is powered by compressed air has been developed by researchers at the National Central University in Taiwan.

Yu-Ta Shen and Yean-Ren Hwang, the researchers behind this discovery, say that such motorcycles may prove very helpful in fighting air pollution.

They have revealed that the current prototype can hold a little more than two and a half gallons of compressed air, which would carry the bike and driver about three-quarters of a mile.