Wednesday, December 06, 2006

 

Curious Technology News

That Bingo! Curious and Useful Technology :

Computers Will Enable People To Live Forever

The inventor, author, and futurist Ray Kurzweil predicts that in 15 to 30 years, nanobots will roam our blood streams fixing diseased or aging organs, computers will back up our human memories, and conference calls will be replaced by meetings in virtual resorts.

Electricity broadcast through the air may someday run your home.

The idea was conceived by Marin Soljacic, an assistant professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). A metaphorical light bulb lit up over his head in the middle of the night, he says, when a beeping cell phone woke him because it needed recharging. Why, he wondered, couldn't a cell phone - or his four Roomba robotic vacuum cleaners, for that matter - be constantly recharged wirelessly?

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