The existing variations on this tech are faster to charge because of increased interactive surface area, but they have less energy density.

As trade offs go, this puts more of a strain on the charging infrastructure, as you get batteries that charge faster, but need it more frequently. If this tech can increase the lifespan, it could bring prices down, but I would prefer to get my cake (high energy density) and eat it too (high charge/discharge currents possible).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium%E2%80%93titanate_battery

At least folks are still getting out in the fresh air.

Seems like its only a matter of time before people can just sit in their living rooms and run an armed drone around the bush to shoot stuff for them.

It already happens a bit with the astronomy crowd - why stand shivering when you can remote your telescope from the comfort of home?

On the plus side, if you do happen to design a drone smart enough to hunt down a critter, you may have a future building dystopian tech for the defense industry.

I spent a lost year of my life working for a similar agency. The systematic fear and redundant covering of asses made for endless meetings.

The only thing worse than busywork is busywork with a profound sense of importance attached to it.

This is a nice sentiment by Munich, but the many of the folks who are running XP and try and install Ubuntu 12 will be in for a nasty surprise -

32 bit machines without PAE will not load with most newer Linuxes. Most, including Ubuntu, no longer include 32 bit non-PAE kernels in their installers.

I found this out when I tried putting a modern albeit tiny Linux onto my FitPC 1 and an older EPIA motherboard - XP runs fine on these, but finding a linux is probably beyond the skill of most XP users. Jury rigging a different kernel in is definitely out.

A lot of older XP installs are also running on older hardware. Just giving away an OS will not magically fix this. And if these folks upgrade the hardware, it probably comes with a newer windows anyway.

I find it unlikely that the Salvation army or Value Village would bother with this technology, let alone actually be able to offer clothes that match.

Just sayin....

I could totally use a version of this - I would wrap it around the exhaust riser on the diesel, and then cool the other side with incoming cooling seawater before it entered the cooling heat exchanger. The difference would be 400C inside vs 22C outside, and might be able to generate some more energy from the waste heat.

I also considered running ammonia through this hot spot and making it an adsorption refrigerator, but that can generate some interesting (chinese) pressures, which can be a hazard.

Of course, normal folks just put an alternator on... but why be normal!

Call me when it supports Gigabit Ethernet, USB3, and ZFS multi-disk.

The entire USA, but it seems to want more specific coordinates.

But seriously, a name-and-shame app for people who are afraid of firearms seems a bit futile in the USA. It would be like a Jew in early 20th century Germany making an app to tag anti-Semitic individuals, institutions, and businesses....

Lets face it, the average user and business PC are serviced well enough by Windows 7, or even XP. So who is left to chase the gains brought by Moores Law?

The PC gaming enthusiasts, thats who. And why are those guys for the most part sticking with the same PCs?

Because most PC games are locked to the performance of a game console - Xbox, et all - and those are a little long in the tooth themselves.

Until the next generation of Consoles pushes the envelope of hardware, and the game developers follow suit... PCs will have no reason to follow...

So when can we use this to induce selective amnesia?

You quipped -
"What, why do we need a SAN? Remember how you wired those netbooks together for our web farm! Figure something out for us. KTHXBYE.'"

- I think the guy who got that line went on to invent iSCSI.

Not that I have anything against Fibre Channel --- as long as the buffer credits dont run out.

Neat technology, but the use of cadavers is a little disconcerting.

Now we will have to fight off bluetooth and WiFi enabled zombies in the coming apocalypse.

Luckily for us the Zombies will probably be content to use WEP and 2GHz. No worries!

It wasnt expensive, actually. Old steel boats are really cheap these days, if you can stand all the rust. It isnt critical to livelihood, but it allows me to live part of the time in a sustainable fashion, away from winter. Living that way teaches lessons in conserving every Amp, litre, and hour of the solar power, fresh water, and time left.

My boat in the Turks and Caicos got nailed - 30 miles from the eye. According to the folks there, things are alright. Ill believe it when I see it. This is my third Hurricane - we have weathered Earl last year and one a couple years before that. Our secret to survival - lots of rope tying down lots of heavy tarps covered with sacrificial tarps - and everything cauled and tied down.

This year we also used kevlar straps to hold the boat in place. Other years we dug a pit and put the boat in.
In all cases, the solar panels somehow stayed attached and keeping the batteries floating.

Who wants an arm that occasionally throws feces at people. Quite embarassing, and all you can say is "Sorry foks, my bionic arm is controlled by a monkey, and hes pissed today"