Your book is also a mini-history lesson- tell us about some of the characters.

But once they get home, 60 percent of consumers said the mini-computer never leaves the house.

It has an under-ground swimming pool, a mini-cinema, and "a large function room where you could feed the entire Politburo," as one Chinese source put it.

Before the minie ball, few soldiers could hit a target more than thirty meters away. With the new bullet, they could hit targets more than one hundred fifty meters away.

The big US companies would only produce tiny tablets and miniature keyboard devices because they did not want to undermine laptop sales.