Notes"Congratulations on finally reaching that corner office! Enjoy it while you can. Next year, you may be operating a business out of your garage."Unfurl
NotesOnly a matter of time now before brain chunks can be replaced by chips. (Heh, yeah, I know, it'll be a lot harder than that, if at all possible.)Unfurl
Notes"By harvesting energy from radioactive specks, nuclear microbatteries could power tomorrow's microelectromechanical marvels—and maybe your cellphone, too"Unfurl
Notes'"Creating pirate disks would be very difficult unless you bought the mastering equipment," he says.' Yeah, because I wouldn't want to use it to back anything up, you know.Unfurl
Notes"Hurricane Ivan is among the most powerful Atlantic storms in recent history, and more such storms are likely in the future due to global warming, say climate experts."Unfurl
Notes"Now researchers have shown in a preliminary study that reducing the levels of isoprostanes, which specifically reflect oxidative damage in the brain, by draining cerebral spinal fluid can stave off future reductions in cognitive abilities. "Unfurl
Notes"It's the Internet Revolution meets the Industrial Revolution: a new program that lets people design 3-D objects like car parts and door knobs in metal or plastic then order them online."Unfurl
Notes"Awed at the pace of technological advances, a faction of geeky writers believes our world is about to change so radically that envisioning what comes next is nearly impossible."Unfurl
Notes"In the brave new future, Big Brother will watch our every move. But that's OK, because we'll be watching him too." Brin beats the transparent society drum again. I, for one, welcome my own personal traffic cam.Unfurl
Notes"Jet fighter pilots could command a whole swarm of planes from the air, using a system developed by a British aerospace company." Sounds like "options" from Gradius :)Unfurl
Notes"The implant involves connecting a wire to the left vagus nerve in the side of the neck; a battery is implanted high in the left chest or under the armpit, and the amount of current can be regulated externally"Unfurl
Notes'The "biothermal battery" under development by Biophan Technologies of West Henrietta, will generate electricity using arrays of thousands of thermoelectric generators built into an implantable chip.'Unfurl
Notes"The system constantly buffers the last 30 seconds of whatever you're looking at, and can save the buffer to permanent storage at the press of a button."Unfurl
Notes"For the first time in humans, a team headed by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis has placed an electronic grid atop patients' brains to gather motor signals that enable patients to play a computer game using only the signals from their brUnfurl
Notes"The authors explain why self-replication, contrary to previous understanding, is unnecessary for building an efficient and effective molecular manufacturing system."Unfurl
Notes"Motivated by free music and video, millions of people have learned that it isn't really that hard to do, especially if there is a 12 year-old available to help." The Singularity will be ushered in by ages 8-12.Unfurl
Notes"The Tongue Display Unit (TDU) can activate areas that are normally reserved for visual information and are unused when someone suffers from congenital blindness. "Unfurl
Notes"Geoscientists are cringing as news reports dredge up what they have long considered a preposterous assertion about the origin of oil: That none of the fossil fuels found on this planet come from fossils."Unfurl
Notes"A patented implantable power system could provide as much as a 30-year power source to “trickle charge� batteries for implantable devices by converting thermal energy produced naturally by the human body into electrical energy"Unfurl
Notes"Texas Instruments has successfully demonstrated running PCI Express over cabling reserved for Gigabit Ethernet, the first step toward a modular desktop PC." Next, make it wireless!Unfurl
Notes"If successful, the probe would be used for the early diagnosis of cancers and pre-cancers of the gastrointestinal system." My uncle died from colon cancer. It runs in the family. This tech would be a good thing.Unfurl
Notes"While the new studies provide an initial proof of principle that human application of brain-machine interfaces is possible, the researchers emphasize that many years of development and clinical testing will be required before such neuroprosthetic devicesUnfurl
Notes"In essence, your body would just be burning additional calories." As long as it didn't cause any adverse side-effects, this sounds like a cool solution to powering personal gadgets and using up excess calories all at once.Unfurl
Notes"It takes instructions directly from an architect's computerised drawings and then squirts successive layers of concrete on top of one other to build up vertical walls and domed roofs."Unfurl