D Monday, February 1, 2010 News 11 Volunteer: Pratchett Author offers suicide law test AUTHOR Terry Pratchett is to offer himself as a test case for assisted suicide tribunals which would give people legal permission to end their life with medical help. The fantasy novelist, who has Alzheimers disease, wants to see a tribunal set up in Britain in which people who have incurable diseases can apply for assistance, with measures to make sure they were of sound mind and not being influenced by anyone else. He will make the comments in the Richard Dimbleby Lecture today, just days after Kay Gilderdale was acquitted of attempted murder after helping her daughter, who was paralysed by ME, to end her life. Fusion power may be closer A PIVOTAL step towards the dream of fusion power could be taken this October as US scientists prepare for an experiment using the worlds most powerful laser. Scientists at the new 2.3billion National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California will use 192 laser beams to focus on a peppercorn- sized capsule containing hydrogen isotopes to trigger a self-sustaining fusion reaction, achieving temperatures greater than those at the centre of the Sun. The test could pave the way for producing unlimited amounts of clean energy from hydrogen. Read us on your phone Smart: New app By Ross McDonaghIF YOU want access to Dublins most awesome commuter newspaper, theres an app for that. Metro Herald has become the first daily newspaper in Ireland to publish a scrolling edition on a smartphone device. The application was developed by PageSuite Limited, the company behind the e-metro in your inbox every morning (if it isnt there, get signing up at www.e-metro.ie 26,000 Dubliners already have). Users of the app can read the latest edition, scroll and search con- tent and access archived editions, or download pages or editions to read offline. The applications are available to download for free of course from the iTunes store. We are delighted to offer our readers another way of getting their daily Metro Herald mo- ment, said Metro Herald marketing manager Kieran Forde. The Metro Herald App takes our newspaper successfully to the Smartphone market, increasing the channels through which our readers can enjoy our product. The new app allows users to intuitively scroll through each edition and perfectly suits Metro Heralds design and our urbanite target audi- ence, added Mr Forde. index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html