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British Gas has unveiled its new fully electric and solar powered cars following its announcement that its aim to have 1,000 electric vans being used by British Gas heating engineers by 2015.

The company aims to start with 25 of such vehicles next year. The two Nissan LEAF models will be used by staff at offices in Staines and Windsor. The new cars were unveiled by Philip Hammond MP, Secretary of State for Transport today.

Mobile phone major, Orange has announced a new innovative T-shirt, which will allow users to charge their mobile phones by converting sound into an electrical charge.

The new product will be tested at this year's Glastonbury festival. The company says hat the festival records enough aural stimulation to charge a device like smartphone. The charger with the T-shirt comes with exchangeable leads and is compatible with most smartphones.

The European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) has unveiled a new hypersonic passenger project at the Paris Le Bourget air show, Today.

The group says that jet hypersonic jet that is twice the speed of Concorde. The jet will fly above the atmosphere and use biofuel to take off from a runway initially. This will allow the plane to avoid the supersonic boom and pollution seen in concede.

The British Library as entered into a deal with internet search giant, Google, which will make one of the biggest collections of books and pamphlets in the world available to the internet users.

The deal will include Google’s search engine to offer text results from sources dating back to the 18th century. Internet users from around the world will be able to search and access huge amounts of copyright free content online for the first time.

German gaming company, Crytek has a website that the rumors suggesting it has received a development kit from Microsoft for the next generation Xbox gaming console is false.

Crytek also pointed out that it does not have any idea about when the new Xbox console, sometimes referred to as Xbox 720, will be launched by Microsoft. The new statements from the company, contradict earlier reports that Microsoft was planning to unveil the new gaming system at next year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3).

Mumbai, June 20 : For "Aarakshan" we first heard about Amitabh Bachchan borrowing the exact cut of Prakash Jha's beard and hair for his character. It now turns out the megastar borrowed not just his facial look but also the clothes to play the college professor.