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Germ Killing Swizzle Stick -- A company called
Hydro-Photon in Blue Hill, Maine has developed a battery powered ultra violet light source
pen they named the Steri-Pen. When used to stir a glass of water for 30 seconds, the
device can kill most germs and viruses, rendering the water safe to drink. |
| Molecular Memories -- A company called "Nanochip
Inc. from Monterey, California claim to have made a major breakthrough in the development
of very small solid state memories. They say they can store as much as 900M bytes of data
on a single IC package. Their memory circuits will first be used to replace hard disk
drives in computer systems. They indicate that their circuits are ten times faster than
typical disk drives and consume much less power. When volume production levels are
reached, they also claim that the system will cost much less than hard disk drives. Their
goal is a cram enough memory circuits inside a standard 3 ½ inch disk drive form factor
to store as much as 1,400GBs of data. Such a memory capacity is at least one hundred times
more than possible with standard hard disk drives. Smaller versions will also find their
way into digital cameras, video recorders and audio playback systems. If their goals are
reached, it will spell the end to clunky mechanical magnetic and optical disk drives.
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Natural Gas Burning Fuel Cell -- David Moard,
president of a company called Hydrogen Burner Technology of Long Beach, California, has
developed a system that can produce up to 10 kilowatts of electricity and heat domestic
water too. Their advanced energy module has no moving parts and takes up about the same
amount of space as a conventional furnace. They claim their systems will run on natural
gas, propane, fuel oil and even gasoline. Such a system would be great for home owners who
want to switch off their connection to a utility company.
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CD-ROM Business Card -- A Denver marketer by the
name of Darry Stansbury has been pushing a newly developed a plastic card, shaped like a
standard business card. The card can store16 megabytes of uncompressed digital
information and up to 600 megabytes of compressed data. The card can be read by any CD-ROM
disk drive. The front side of the card looks like a standard business card with a hole in
its middle. The card front surface presents a company's logo, mailing address and
phone
numbers. The back side would contains the data. The "Wow Card" is expected to
cost
less than two dollars each when ordered in large quantities. Complete product
catalogs, data sheets and application notes could be stored on the small cards.
Perhaps the cards might also hold music, photos and popular novels. |
| Super High Fiber Optic Data Rates -- Lucent Technologies
has been hard at work cramming more and more data down a single optical fiber. Using 40
distinct laser colors, they have been able to send 1.6 trillion bits per second of
information through a single glass fiber, 240 miles long. Each light signal can carry up
to 40 billion bits per second. Their goal is reach a terrabyte (8 trillion bytes) per
second. To put that into perspective, at such a data rate, a single optical fiber could
transmit a million TV channels at the same time. |
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