News reports that a lab at Florida State University is about to unveil a buckypapers for the commercial market. What are buckypapers you ask? Why, only ridiculously tough (albeit lightweight) sheets of matter made from intertwined carbon nanotubes. In short, future stuff. The, um, sheets of matter could find some use in making more efficient heat sinks and participating in future transportation. Not like beaming though. Sigh.

What would Mulder and Scully say about the development? Something tells me Mulder would believe it and Scully wouldn’t. Just a hunch.

If you haven’t heard about India’s Tata Motor Company, then I’ll give you the skinny:  they are  releasing  a 100,000 rupee car – that’s US$2500, brand spanking new. Unveiled last night, the Tata NANO, will bring motoring within the reach of millions when it is launched in India later in 2008. It doesn’t have any of the modern luxuries like GPS, Air Conditioning, or even a radio, but it gets around 60 miles to the gallon.

I know what i’m getting next Christmas – insurance.

The MP4-21 from Shenzhen Sietek Industrial offers a new take on Apple’s clickwheel. The device supports MTV videos, WMA, MP3 and WMV audio files (with ID3 tags) and JPEG images, and has seven EQ modes. A 2.4-inch TFT screen that displays 262,000 colors, some kind of USB port, and a miniSD slot are built-in. For Windows 98, ME, 2000 and XP.

According to Harvard University, tiny gizmos of the future could be powered via a "silicon nanowire that can convert light into electrical energy."

The cable itself looks like what we a re used to seeing, but it is 100,000 times smaller, and made of silicon with three different types of conductivity arranged as layered shells.

This "silicon nanowire" can convert light into electrical energy and while almost invisible to the naked eye, a single strand can crank out up to 200 picowatts.

My old Ipod nano broke (sad)

Guess what I’m getting tomorrow? (happy)