Pretty Awesome Stuff Right There

This is a pretty interesting article about nano-technology. Although this seems very cool and I'm sure we can all think of a million ways in which this could benefit our daily lives, we also have to think about the consequences. We already have enough car crashes each year just from distractions such as radio, cell phone, annoying passengers named William, newspapers, etc. Imagine the catastrophic death hole the highway would be if people could sit down and watch a movie while they drive! This would be insane! Imagine trying to tell somebody that their child is dead because you wanted to catch the latest South Park episode that you missed yesterday...

Anyway, I would rather die peacefully like my uncle Joe than screaming like his bus passengers...

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/04/09/nanotech-virtual-display.html

RepRap

RepRap is an open source, 3D Printer. First let me start with describing what a 3D printer is. It creates objects in 3d by laying down colored plastic layers one one top of the other. when this dries it becomes a solid object usable for anything. This is a cheap 3D printer that can actually print parts for it self. The parts include updates. This is project is to allow small companies and private citizens a relatively cheap 3D printer.

http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/tech/2F5C3C5D68A380EDCC257423006E71CD

Project Cybersyn

In 1971, Salvador Allende had Stafford Beer design a computer system to control the planned economy of Chile. The control room looked like something out of an early StarTrek episode. It collected information from all parts of Chile and showed them on screens that were controlled by panels on the arms of mounted swivel chairs.
Read more about it here