Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Power Paper: Energy Storage by the Sheet: Scientific American

Power Paper: Energy Storage by the SheetBy surrounding carbon nanotubes with cellulose, researchers have devised a flexible, paper-thin power source
Power Paper: Energy Storage by the Sheet: Scientific American

Wow, that is something I just never thought would be possible.  I know I've also heard about displays as thin as paper in the past, so maybe they could combine these two things to have a self-powering paper screen!  ;-)

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A recent pic of our house


Taken last night when I was using my Nikon Coolpix L3 to try out the new version of iPhoto that's on the also-new iMac I just got. I'm trying to be more active on this blog (yet AGAIN), so thought this would be something good to do:

DIRECTV plugs into broadband over power line

DIRECTV plugs into broadband over power line

This is rather intriguing.  Unfortunately the speeds top out at 3 Mbps.  I download so many demos and things that it would be hard to give up the 8-with-bursts-to-16 that Comcast gives me right now.

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