On infinite mind power, immortality & robot overlords

All for the first two; less enthusiastic about the last one.

http://techland.time.com/2012/03/14/kurzweil-south-by-southwest-keynote-speech-grossman/?iid=tl-main-lede

Longevity Battery Saver dobs in power pig apps

http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2012/03/longevity-battery-saver-dobs-in-power-pig-apps/

Snopes site goes to bat over red neck Chevy Volt email

There's an email doing the rounds that over-estimates the cost of running a Volt by 10 times!

http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1073374_truth-telling-snopes-site-goes-to-bat-over-chevy-volt-e-mail

/ Cost to operate a Chevy Volt kilo Watt urban myth Chelsea Sexton /

Mac developers: Gatekeeper is a concern, but still gives power users control

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2012/02/developers-gatekeeper-a-concern-but-still-gives-power-users-control.ars

Germany's solar schadenfreude

http://reneweconomy.com.au/2012/germanys-solar-schadenfreude-59674

/ glee  France export /

Aquamarine Power to connect wave energy generator to UK National Grid

http://inhabitat.com/aquamarine-power-to-connect-wave-energy-generator-to-uk-national-grid/

/ Aquamarine /

Lytro video camera "a possibility", would need more processing muscle

http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/17/lytro-video-camera-a-possibility-would-need-more-processing-m/

Tesla reports $81.5m net loss in Q4 and full year financial results

http://www.slashgear.com/tesla-reports-81-5m-net-loss-in-q4-and-full-year-financial-results-15213687/

/ Mercedes-Benz /

Betting the farm: new model shows offshore wind farms at risk from hurricanes

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/02/model-shows-offshore-wind-turbines-at-risk-from-hurricanes.ars

/ wind farm offshore hurricane Department Of Energy National Renewable Energy Laboratory NREL /

Perhaps the most striking photo taken in North Korea last year

Photograph of Kim II-sung, hangs on a building in the capital, Pyongyang, North Korea
Credit: crainium.net

If a picture is worth a thousand words, what are the words for this picture?

Poverty, insufficient electricity, wrong priorities ...

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/02/perhaps-the-most-striking-photo-taken-in-north-korea-last-year/#more-514196 / Kim Il-sung Jong-il communist North Korea failed state poverty hunger starvation electricity power shortage famine dictator military regime saddest photograph of the year /

Turning heat into power

http://www.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/nanophotonics-0203.html

/ opal tune tuned economical scale /

K-Tor Power Box – pedal to the metal & charge your devices

http://the-gadgeteer.com/2012/02/05/k-tor-power-box-pedal-to-the-metal-and-charge-your-devices/

/ pedal /

Cheap power meter at Aldi

http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2012/02/dealhacker-cheap-power-meter-at-aldi/

/ Amp /

U.S. Department of Energy announces the 2013 Solar Decathlon is coming to California!

http://m.inhabitat.com/u-s-department-of-energy-announces-the-2013-solar-decathlon-is-coming-to-california/

 

/ 2013 Solar Decathlon /

UK'S first marine energy park to harvest 27 gigaWatts of wave power by 2050

http://m.inhabitat.com/uks-first-marine-energy-park-to-harvest-27-gigawatts-of-wave-power-by-2050/

/ marine Bristol Scilly Isles generated /

Cortexa's ZE Home Controller: recreate Demon Seed for a fraction of the cost

http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/25/cortexa-s-ze-home-controller-recreate-demon-seed-for-a-fraction/

/ Proteus IV EZ Home Automation Ready Controller EZ-Wave Starter package dimmers, thermostat, energy monitor, controller lamp modules /

Notion Ink's Adam II promises TI OMAP CPUs, Ice Cream Sandwich, broken dreams

http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/21/notion-ink-adam-ii-omap-4/

/ instruments multitasking NortonInk /

Eyes-on the innards of Fujitsu's K supercomputer

http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/25/eyes-on-the-innards-of-fujitsus-k-supercomputer/

/ SPARC64 CPU megaWatt megaWatts /

Microsoft's Windows 8 hardware requirements: some good, some not-so-good

http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/17/microsofts-windows-8-hardware-requirements/

/ alt del  /

Next generation iPhone & iPad could offer 20 times more graphics performance

http://m.bgr.com/2012/01/11/next-generation-iphone-and-ipad-could-offer-20-times-more-performance/