'Ionic wind engines' keep computers cool

The microchips inside future computers could be chilled by tiny "ionic wind engines" that use an electric current to generate a cooling breeze.

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German doctors are restoring partial sight to blind people by grafting microchips covered with photocells onto the backs of their eyes in a major medical breakthrough, news magazine Der Spiegel reported on Saturday.

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A team of Yale University researchers has discovered a "repulsive" light force that can be used to control components on silicon microchips, meaning future nanodevices could be controlled by light rather than electricity.

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Thanks Mexico! Now my dog and I can have matching microchips.

It is official! Mexico is NUMBER 1 !!!! We should be bursting with national pride. Unfortunately, our newly republished numero uno recognition is for kidnappings, followed by executions, and killing journalists.

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A Maltese dog named Max is headed home to Florida after he was spotted in Chicago -- 1,000 miles from where he vanished.

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If you ever get the feeling that every heretofore ordinary object in your life is now beeping, flashing, counting, or otherwise hinting of intelligence—benign or maybe even malevolent — blame Warren East.

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Producing a cutting-edge chip today is more difficult and more expensive than it's ever been. With a foundation in Moore's Law, which dictates that the number of transistors on a chip doubles every two years, the rules of economics and physics are stretched.

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Here's a vision of the not-so-distant future:

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The article claims a link may exist between implanted microchips, like those we put in our pets, and tumors. However, the animal tests they refer to may show skewed results becuase the species may be prone to tumors.When the U.S.

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US research engineers claim to have developed a low-cost technique for patterning microchips. The Princeton University boffins said that the new process allows them to create ultra-small grooves on microchips as easily as "making a sandwich".

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The Department of Defense is planning to implant microchips in soldiers' brains for monitoring their health information, and has already awarded a $1.6 million contract to the Center for Bioelectronics, Biosensors and Biochips (C3B) at Clemson University for the development of an …

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Chips could run faster and be more energy efficient thanks to a process from IBM that copies nature's creation of seashells and snowflakes.

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RFID keeps getting smaller. On February 13, Hitachi unveiled a tiny, new "powder" type RFID chip measuring 0.05 x 0.05 mm — the smallest yet — which they aim to begin marketing in 2 to 3 years.

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While passing on the extended warranty usually isn't that bad of an idea for most products, when it comes to something as vital as a passport, you might as well bite the bullet and spring for it, just to have that extra peace of mind.

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A sobering article on how microchipping the entire population is not just if, but when.

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Don't throw away your laptop yet, but there's a promising new high-tech invention being announced this week. Researchers have created a memory circuit the size of a white blood cell that has enough capacity to store the Declaration of Independence and have space left over.

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No two microchips are exactly the same, even if they come from the same production line. Researchers think this could be turned into an advantage, as it provides a way to authenticate the microchips used in many modern ID cards.

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Market sources say that about 20 million Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) processors will be used in Dell's servers, desktop PCs and notebooks between the fourth quarter of 2006 and the fourth quarter of 2007.

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A microchip company with powerful political connections is lobbying the Pentagon for the right to implant chips under the skins of the nearly 1.4 million U.S. military personnel.

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I believe that I would rather be safe than sorry.

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An unpopular pigment used by artists in the 18th Century could lead to more energy efficient, faster computers.

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From the Article: "For the first time, researchers have created a working prototype of a radical new chip design based on magnetism instead of electrical transistors..."

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Mark of the Beast?

666! It's starting. Next thing to come, companies requiring their employees to be "chipped." Firm implants ID chips

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