Man, if it's operating at 17 petaflops per second, just think how fast it'll be by this time next year!

And yet, even the very day of the election, there were still large numbers of pundits predicting a landslide victory for Romney. Guess the predictions aren't that easy, or perhaps it's just easier to ignore the numbers and resort to wishful thinking.

While the possibility of that is certainly true, it is false for this recent presidential election. Not all districts have reported in, but the most recent numbers show that Obama is ahead in the popular vote by a hair under 2.9 million votes.

http://www.google.com/elections/ed/us/results

This is what I like to use at work, since I often have to squeeze a ton of notes into a small space and need it all to be legible. The only problem I've had is that depending on the quality of paper (and other things), sometimes the ink doesn't dry immediately. You have to watch out writing on glossier surfaces, but other than that, an excellent pen that isn't ridiculously expensive.

But you wouldn't drive in the lane to get a full power-up; you'd only need enough to maintain cruising speed, which is a lot less power. Or even less than that, if you're just looking for any sort of external boost to make up for the inherent issues with trying to store power onboard.

As for slowing the car down, that may be the case with a magnetic charger, but I'm not sure about inductive coupling--I'll defer to the EEs to make a ruling on that one.

They're called killa-hertz for a reason, right?

Joking aside, that's not a half-bad idea. Even if we're talking about the non-magnetic forms of wireless power transmission, it could be possible in the distant future to embed the technology in our highways and have it powered by roadside solar panels, etc.

Nevermind...finally read the article thoroughly. They're just placating the idiots who think that other types of wireless power transmission is black magic or something, as if quickly rotating magnetic fields (not to mention large magnetic discs) is any safer than electrical fields alone. Apparently these people have never heard of electromagnetism and aren't aware that the two are intrinsically linked.

I can only assume that this hopefully is a method that increases efficiency, but my first thought would be that if you have a magnet spinning nearby underneath a car, why not just put a coil in the car and generate electricity that way? Adding a second magnet just seems like it would add weight and mechanical complexity.

But if they went that route, I suppose they must've had good reason.

Thank you for the passive-aggressive response. However, my comment was directed at the portion of TFS which reads:

In my opinion, these sound effects do more to cheapen the sensation rather than enhance it.

If you don't like that I happen to have an opinion of my own, surely your internet browser has a helpful interface element known as a scroll bar, which allows you to progress further down the page and pass up the offending opinion.

I like the video quality enhancements, they really bring out a lot of hidden details. The frame extrapolations, though, give a weird gelatinous effect to the video.

And I could really do without the sound effects, especially the cheesy motor sound effects at the ending.

This might have been a question to ask perhaps 5-10 years ago, when such things were all the rage (brushed metal, faux glass, reflections, etc.), but it seems that of late, between interfaces like Android (especially Honeycomb and later) or Microsoft's Metro, things have been taking a sharp turn away from skeuomorphism and decidedly towards an unabashedly digital styling.