Issues I am perplexed with
Monday, January 24, 2005
Free VoIP in the UK: Google gears up for a free-phone challenge to BTWireless Power: MobileRead - Wireless power recharging by Slashpower
I predicted it, I didn't think it was possible but it seems they have figured a way of doing it. I mentioned it to some friends a few weeks back and here it is, ready for commercial use by the end of the year.
Other things I have noticed in technological news have been the addition of rat muscles to silicon chips and hopefully developed into generators and the really exciting new division at MIT that is investigation biosynthetics and making electronic circuits using dna and bacteria.
Quote: Silicon Valley: "In total, the core of our team has invested something like 80 man years on this experiment, 18 of which are mine. I think right now the key lesson is this -- if you're looking for a job with instant and guaranteed success, this isn't it."
-- University of Idaho professor David Atkinson, whose years of work on an experiment to measure the winds on Saturn's moon Titan came to naught because someone forgot to turn it on
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