TECHNOLOGY

A movie being filmed in my hometown! The Amway Grand hotel, Grand Rapids Press and various other places have been choosen for filming in a new upcoming movie titled "The Steam Experiment" starring Val Kilmer. heres the plot: A former professor (Kilmer) concocts a brutal experiment in order to get the word out on the effects of global warming. By trapping six people in an urban Turkish bathhouse, he vows to overheat his hostages unless his global-warming hypothesis is published on the front page of his local paper. more here

Seems pretty cool, I mean its freakin "Iceman" from Top Gun!!! LOL

A super processor that will make the current core 2 duo extreme seem a little less...extreme. Its being called a 3d CPU but not like AMD 2d or 3d chips this has literally 3 CPUs stacked on top of eachother and actually uses less power than current CPUs! OK this is the newest design in processors besides what Intel is working on now, Pentium 5 extreme duo triple core excitement blah, blah, blah.

Fujio Masuoka, CTO of Unisantis Electronics in Japan, has announced a deal to work on his 3D chip designs with Singapore’s Institute of Microelectronics to take advantage of the island nation’s government facilities and specialists.

If his plans are successful, the inventor of flash memory is just a few steps away from delivering three-dimensional semiconductors that will give us processing chips running at ten times the speed of current-generation designs.

He hopes that - within two years - the resulting 3D semiconductors will replace flat chip circuits to create processors that are ten times faster than current chips of the same size.

Masuoka, who invented flash memory while at Toshiba, says he intends to pay royalties to the Singapore government while licensing the new super chips to major manufacturers. All of which means we could soon be using CPUs that make current cutting-edge architecture like the Cell look like a horse-drawn cart. Some websites claim the new design may reach clock speeds of near 50Ghz now say it with me: Giga Hertz.

Honda has one for the Asimo robot already and only a matter of time before enough are manufactured for you and me to buy these probably very-expensive-but-worth-it CPUs! Also the possibilities of AI are growing too!

the thought of powering something wirelessly is seemingly impossible if you just think about it, but its been thought about for years! It began in the mid 1800's believe it or not with electromagnetic radiation and microwaves later. In 1904, at the St. Louis World's Fair, a prize was offered for a successful attempt to drive a 0.1 horsepower (75 W) air-ship motor by energy transmitted through space at a distance of least 100 feet. In 1964 William C. Brown demonstrated on CBS News with Walter Cronkite a microwave-powered model helicopter that received all the power needed for flight from a microwave beam. Between 1969 and 1975 Brown was technical director of a JPL Raytheon program that beamed 30 kW over a distance of 1 mile at 84% efficiency. (source: wikipedia) NASA has demonstrated flight of a lightweight model plane powered by a laser beam from inside a building at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. Electrical energy can also be transmitted by means of electrical currents made to flow through naturally existing conductors, specifically the earth, lakes and oceans, and through the atmosphere — a natural medium that can be made conducting if the breakdown voltage is exceeded and the gas becomes ionized. For example, when a high voltage is applied across a neon tube the gas becomes ionized and a current passes between the two internal electrodes. In a practical wireless energy transmission system using this principle, a high-power ultraviolet beam might be used to form a vertical ionized channel in the air directly above the transmitter-receiver stations. The same concept is used in virtual lightning rods, the electrolaser electroshock weapon and has been proposed for disabling vehicles, such as high speed pursuit a helicopter would have such a device mounted on it to disable the vehicle.
Probably the most promising of the corps working on this technology is powercast. They have been successful at powering devices wirelessly and safely from several hundred feet. Before you know it power lines will cease to exist and wireless power will be a reality!