Coming to you in the near future (whether you want them or not) :

1. Self replicating desktop factories
2. Custom built organs
3. Anti-aging
4. Ultra-capacitors
5. Terabytes of nonvolatile memory in your ipod and desktop

A list of various things that I have been up to recently and/or are currently engaged in (in no particular order):

• I started reading Charles Stross’ Halting State and have been enjoying it.
• Turned “The Shaper’s Daughter” over to a friend for copy editing while I work on researching markets.
• Finishing up the new scene to begin “The Alchemist of Liberty”.
• Built a double loft (basically from scratch) for Merideth over the weekend.
• Porting a bunch of my old wiki articles to the new wiki.
• Started watching Torchwood. Three episodes and liking it a lot.
• Researching a PHP based bookmark tool to add to fritzfreiheit.com
• and someone at UofM has developed a new plastic that is as strong as steel and transparent.

This is the first in what I plan to be a weekly roundup of technological innovations.

The laser based non-intrusive cancer detection system is an important step forward both from a cancer prevention sense and in its implications for blood analysis in general.

The developers of the super-capacitor claim that it will have 400 times the energy capacity of an equal weight in chemical batteries. If this turns out to be true then we are on the cusp of a dramatic change in the way we transport energy. It may even open the door to electrically powered aircraft.

A 360-Degree holographic display is something that they have been working on so long that one is left wondering if the air-car will get here first.

A terabyte on a CD is enough to make me drool. ‘Nuff said.

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