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It seems that Samsung has developed a fuel cell docking station which would power one of their ultraportable laptops for a month. "The dock can power a laptop eight hours a day, five days a week for a month. Apparently the boffins are working on a miniature version which can power a laptop for more than 15 hours "on a coffee cup's worth of fuel". Although it is not clear how much fuel there is in a cup of coffee."
Bit-Tech has published the "Bit-Tech Awards for 2006". DigitalTrends has also done a roundup of the best products of 2006. "We've awarded 'Best of Year' badges to some of our favorite products published on bit-tech in the last 12 months. We're looking at the best games (RTS, RPG, FPS and Console) as well as graphics, motherboards, CPUs, peripherals, memory, cases, cooling, monitors and more."
This article takes a look at the future of computer technology. "In the past twenty years, there has been a dramatic increase in the processing speed of computers, network capacity and the speed of the internet. These advances have paved the way for the revolution of fields such as quantum physics, artificial intelligence and nanotechnology. These advances will have a profound effect on the way we live and work, the virtual reality we see in movies like the Matrix, may actually come true in the next decade or so."
TheRegister takes a look at copyright and how it is hurting individuals. "We're continually being told the Internet empowers the individual. But speaking as an individual creative worker myself, I'd argue that all this Utopian revolution has achieved so far in my sector is to disempower individuals, strengthen the hand of multinational businesses, and decrease the pool of information available to audiences. All things that the technology utopians say they wanted to avoid."
This former military pilot has devised a system to fly a person using small kerosene powered engines. "Back in 2003 Rossy, now a commercial airliner captain, began his Flying Man project, when he strapped a pair of stubby wings to his back and leapt out of a plane, swooping eight miles in freefall for the loss of just 1000ft in altitude. Strapping on the contraption, which is made of various metals, fibreglass, Kevlar and carbon fibre, Rossy climbs into the small aircraft which is to launch him into his flight. At an altitude of some 7750ft, he leaps out, just like a skydiver."
This Damn Interesting article talks about radiation in the early days. "Hammer's recipe was used by the US Radium Corporation during the First World War to produce Undark, a high-tech paint which allowed America's infantrymen to read their wristwatches and instrument panels at night. They also marketed the pigment for non-military products such as house numbers, pistol sights, light switch plates, and glowing eyes for toy dolls."
Todays timewaster is Upgrade RC, a remote controlled car racing game.
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