These days, microchips make the world go around. They are in mobile phones, computers, refrigerators, microwaves and pretty much any other electrical device you care to name. But there’s a new microchip on the horizon now that is so efficient, it can be powered by only body heat and movement.
New MicroChip Runs on Body Heat
Opera’s Mobile Browser Speeds Up Smartphones
The Opera Web browser has been toiling away in the background for years now. Opera’s “small footprint” alternative Internet browser was created in Scandinavia back in the 90s, and in keeping with its northern European roots, provides an efficient and elegant interface for Web surfing that critics went absolutely ga ga for.
Pentagon Plans to Shoot Down Rouge Satellite
The U. S. military claims that it must shoot down a non-functional satellite over the course of the next several days to protect against the possibility of the satellite’s fuel tank leaking out into the atmosphere, and creating a toxic gas cloud. However, experts in the field of aircraft and space security are crying foul. Many experienced missile defense and space authorities are questioning the rationale for the proposed shoot down.
NASA Sends the Beatles into Space
When John Lennon wrote the classic Beatle’s song “Across the Universe,” he probably never dreamed that that is exactly where the Beatle’s classic would end up. On February 4, NASA celebrated the 50th anniversary of the very first space mission. In honor of the occasion, NASA used a huge networked array of antennas that normally scan the heavens for incoming signals from space to transmit a broadcast out into the cosmos.
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