Advancement in Nuclear Fusion

The article titled "How to build a star on earth" goes to explain the attempted advancements in science to generate limitless amounts of energy using nuclear fusion. As you may know, stars in the core are fusing the atoms to release vast amounts of energy. To be able to do what the stars are able to, they are literally trying to get this to work in one hundred million degrees! Imagine making a small scale star to generate limitless energy... now that would spark a major revolution!

Happy 1234567890 Day!

As all of you nerds would already know... On Friday, February 13, 2009 at exactly 23:31:30 (UTC), Unix time was equal to '1234567890'. Parties and other celebrations are planned around the world among various technical subcultures, to celebrate 1234567890 day.

High-Tech Shocks Turn Bumps Into Power

Another one of those 

"Why didn't I think of that" moments... using the shock absorber to generate enegy!

Scientists Debate a Robot War

I found this article interesting as I do see a trend of warfare and robotics merging together; from smart bombs to sniper robots that have better accuracy than the pros. The potential for what the machines can do is unlimited. Now as to whether they will take over... thats really debatable :)

Micron demonstrates the fastest SSD ever

Micron introduced a SSD drive that supposedly hit a data transfer rate around 800 MB/s, which can be increased to 1GB/s. This is of course not done through sata II interface but rather PCIe interface, because sata II is only capable of transferring data of 300Mb/s. This speed was attained by attaching the SSD to the computer through PCIe connections and the drives have “flash data management enhancements".

To put the speed into perspective note that the fatest notebook hard drives can write at approximately 70 MB/s, while their desktop cousins achieve around 100MB/s. Velociraptor which is considered the fastest desktop hard drive performs around 122 MB/s. Yes, your math is correct; Micron claims to run at 8x the speed of the current fastest hard drive!

Finally we have come to a point where our hard drives do not need to be the slowest parts on our PCs. The question remains though, can the Motherboards keep up? :)