Will New Batteries Make Laptops Truly Mobile? by Titus Hoskins
Current laptops or notebook computers have one major obstacle to overcome: short battery life. Despite their sleek style and ever increasing higher performance levels, laptops have never been truly mobile. With batteries averaging around 3 to 5 hours of usable power, most laptops are limited in... Read more info on Micro Fuel Cells here: www.mtimicrofuelcells.com Even more promising is printable solar cells that folds out or can be wrapped around or built into a laptop, giving them a renewable energy source and power.

Comet Based Colonies Are Possible and Good For Solar System Observation by Lance Winslow
Comets are self propelled and require no energy to move around the solar system, so therefore they are a perfect platform to do research. Comet Observation platforms could be used for space travel rather easily. Since Comet tails contain ice and vapor trails, we have water available for use in... A laser array could slow and even stop a Comet using the power from the fuel cell which is fueled by the water it collects and ionizing the space infront of the Comet by way of chemical or particle laser beam using the mined material of the Comet itself.

Fuel Cell Robots Are Here by Lance Winslow
Imagine going to a Wal-Mart and instead of a car or pickup with a rotating orange light on top a little robot scurries across he parking lot with an orange hat. As it moves it leaks water on the ground, not very much, but just enough to look like it is leaking a little. ... A chemical reaction between hydrogen and oxygen is making all this happen using the fuel cell technologies. ... It is vapor or exhaust, the exhaust of a fuel cell running an electric motor. ... The more energy it uses the more vapor water is left behind.

Three Emerging Technologies that Will Change the World by Paul McGillivary
I was speaking with a friend the other night about his great grandfather. His great grandfather was born in 1875. He lived until 1965. Can you imagine the technology that this man saw come online? Let me name a few: the typewriter, the electric dental drill, the telephone, the phonograph, the... Instead, we have to talk about pros and cons around each type of energy and fuel. ... Ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) uses the temperature differences in the ocean layers to produce energy. ... Alternative Energy & Fuels When gas prices skyrocketed this past year, many people suddenly took...

World Wide Jigsaw by Allan Price
I think that people can solve all of our problems, if we could just work together. In fact, I think that solutions of many of our problems already exist in pieces scattered here and there all over the world. For example, all over the planet the Sun is shining on thousands of miles of roads and... Cheaper than traditional solar cells, these produce electricity for half the cost of burning fossil fuels with no pollution. ... - STMicroelectronics, a French-Italian semiconductor maker, is making solar cells using organic materials such as plastics.

Lithium ion Rechargeable Batteries by Dan Hagopian
Lithium ion rechargeable batteries are by far one of the most important technologies that have been developed over the last 10 years. Lithium based batteries are used in most portable devices from PDAs to laptops to digital cameras. Lithium ion rechargeable batteries are not hazardous when... In batteries electrolytes are used to store energy as chemical fuel on the surface of the metal plates within battery cell and the electrolyte also serves as a conductor, which connects the plates electrically.

The WiFi Blues by Jeffry Fawcett
Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love has it. Many in San Francisco want it... Wireless broadband Internet access ( WiFi ) seems too good to be true. At relatively low cost, anyone can get on the Internet anywhere in a city. All the city needs to do is install WiFi antennas. ... In addition to the health effects documented for cell phone use, exposure to cell phone antennas include - increased blood pressure and pulse, - sleep disruption, - emotional effects such as increased depression and irritability, - memory loss and mental fog, - fatique and vertigo, and - increased cancer...

Technology Predictions for 2006 by S. Housley
2005 literally took the world by storm. The tragedies of the Asian Tsunami, the Hurricanes that blew through the US Gulf Coast and the earthquakes that swallowed parts of Pakistan have left an indelible mark on 2005. While mother nature cast a shadow on 2005, it was technology that delivered the... I expect we will see a lot of energy and effort in this area. ... In 2007 MP3 players will likely be a common feature of cell phones. ... Cell phones have become personal homing devices, and it is near impossible to locate a cellular phone that is not capable of manipulating or taking photos,...