Race- memory

This could be the next gen of flash and hard drive memory, known as "Racetrack" nano-magnetic memory. "In current solid-state memory devices you store and control the flow of electrical charge. Here, we store and control the flow of the spin of an electron...IBM estimates that an iPod using racetrack memory could store 100 times more information."

Vista v. Leopard (Round 1)

Let the comparison commence...Harry McCracken from PCWorld states: "Compared to Windows Vista, Leopard is a meatier, more polished, more immediately useful, less annoying OS upgrade." Meanwhile, if you're looking for a laptop that runs Windows Vista you might consider getting yourself a...well, a mac! Also from PCWorld; "The fastest Windows Vista notebook we've tested this year is a Mac. Try that again: The fastest Windows Vista notebook we've tested this year--or for that matter, ever--is a Mac. Not a Dell, not a Toshiba, not even an Alienware...the MacBook's score is far more impressive simply because Apple couldn't care less whether you run Windows."

Solar Purifying

A link I came across on boingboing brings you to this sight
which features water containers (they hold 1 gallon) that works with the sun "to allow UV-A radiation and increased temperature to destroy pathogenic microorganisms." Pretty cool.

Singularity is Near

IBM is in the beginning stages of demonstrating "how to perform certain computer functions on single atoms and molecules, a discovery that could someday lead to processors the size of a speck of dust." "In a second report, researchers...said they had used an individual molecule as an electric switch that could potentially replace the transistors used in modern chips." However, the technologies are at least 10 years away from integration (funny; ten years ago I was on a Compaq computer w/ 33mhz processor). Fascinating stuff. The Singularity is Near!