Rumours abound that Bill Gates is planning to travel into space. Some
will pay even more for it to be a one way ticket...:
http://blogs.pcworld.com/techlog/archives/004076.html
Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia claims it is "Broken beyond
repair", coincidentally he launches his own encyclopedia site:
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article1637535.ece
UC Berkely plan a $10 cellphone through Quanta, who are making the OLPC:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199000011
Georgia Institute of Technology develop a nanowire-based microgenerator
that can generate 4W per cubic centimetre from motion and vibration:
http://www.gatech.edu/news-room/release.php?id=1326
And finally. The humble LED is 40 years older than we thought. A Russian
patented it in 1927 - and may also have invented the transistor:
http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2007/04/led-older-than-we-thought.html
News collated from various sources by Vik Olliver for Diamond Age Solutions Ltd. The views presented in this document are the personal opinion of the collator, and should not be taken as any more than that.