However, now it has genuinely earned this accolade, having passed the combined £35.5m earned by The Lion King from its various 2D and 3D releases.
And although lithium ions can flow through it to the anode, enabling the battery to operate as if the film were not there, it prevents dendrites (which are thousands of times larger than the ions) from forming.One atom at a timeThe researchers' latest solution is to use an advanced two-dimensional (2D) material in other words, comprising a single layer of atoms to sheathe the lithium anode.
GameSalad allows users to make 2D games for smartphones, which some choose to sell.
But, as one of my all-time favourite articles by The Economist explains, 2D maps can be deceiving.
But mostly it is because 3D-printer manufacturers require users to buy materials from them and mark up the price, as with the inks for 2D inkjet printers.
Some machines operate a bit like 2D inkjet printers, jetting light-sensitive liquid materials to form layers and then hardening them.
Laser-illuminated projectors cannot only deliver brilliantly bright images, in either 2D or 3D, but also promise better contrast, more natural colours, ultra-realistic high frame rates and resolutions that might finally approach those of film.The lasers are not fired directly at the screen, as in some planetaria, but contained entirely within a digital cinema projector.
They are now worth buying, not so much for their ability to show 3D content, but because they display 2D even better than conventional plasma or LCD sets (see "Beyond HDTV", July 28th 2011).As a sports-loving, old-movie addict, your correspondent's choice is easy.
The explosive "Transformers 3" did well in 3D; perhaps the 2D version was not sufficiently headache-inducing.
The cornflake-maker put 2D codes, better known as QR (for quick response) codes, on its Crunchy Nut boxes in America.
Today, Dr Cui's nanosphere-based batteries achieve 99.6%, while his 2D batteries manage around 97%, both over 100 or so cycles.
