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Technology

Gizmo

2 November 2005

Do the gaudy colours of some websites offend your eye? Do you find others impossible to read? A new browser toolbar from Textic in Maidenhead, UK, may help. It was originally designed for people with dyslexia, but is available to anyone. It allows you to change button sizes, fonts and colours, and to remove distracting graphics.

However vigilant shopkeepers may be at not selling cigarettes to children, there’s nothing to stop under-age smokers using a vending machine instead. In Japan, 70 per cent of high-school students get their cigarettes this way. So the Japan Vending Machine Manufacturers Association is going…

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