Processing in the Terahertz Range

It seems that engineers at the University of Utah have developed a new method of processing which uses perforated sheets of metal to control processing. This new way of processing has produced some pretty promising results. The engineers claim that in about 10 years we could see processing speeds go to a full terahertz. Current tests using this new method have already produced processing speeds of about 300 gigahertz.

Computing advancement still showing no signs of slowing down, now if we combine terahertz processing into multi-core systems, we'll have desktops that run like supercomputers!

Check out the full article here!


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The SWORDS System

Check out the SWORDS weapon system. Pretty amazing stuff!




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There's Light in Them There Walls

That's right, lights in the walls, or as they are calling it. Light emitting wallpaper, as designed by Jonas Samson. Pretty cool stuff, especially with the fact that when you turn off the lights, the wallpaper blends in and looks like regular wallpaper. Check it out at Engadget and Jonas Samson's Site


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WOW Meets Portal!!

This Machinima is by far one of the top 5 machinima's I have ever seen. It mixes World Of Warcraft with Portal, two amazing games. If you play both you'll love this video, and if you don't you'll still be able to appreciate the amazing editing done with not only the video, but also the audio. ENJOY!!!

WeGame.com - WoW Videos

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Favorite Aircraft Poll

Here are the most recent poll results:

A-10 Thunderbolt ........................25%
F-4 Phantom .............................16%
F-14 Tomcat .............................. 8%
F-22 Raptor ............................... 8%
SR-71 Blackbird ..........................33%
One I Didn't Include ...................... 8%




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A Tad Bit Unnecessary

Only a few months ago, the University of Michigan laser, nicknamed HERCULES, was shown with an impressive 300 terawatts of power.

Well it appears as though the title of most powerful laser wasn't meant to be owned by University of Michigan for very long. The University of Texas at Austin has apparently created a laser that will have a power level of 1 petawatt, yep that 1000 terawatts. Just keep in mind that the power usage of your standard 60 Watt light bulb is about 16,700,000,000 times less output than this lasers potential output.

The power of this laser is 2000 times larger than the entire United States power generation capability. It would be brighter than the Sun, if you were walking on the surface of the sun. The only down side, the laser lasts only one tenth of a trillionth of a second.

The one question that I come up with is... Why? Not sure how this will be of great importance in the near future, but I'm sure they'll find a use for it... Death Ray anyone?

Check out the article at Engadget!


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The Huge... Scratch that, Tiny Blackhole

NASA has just discovered the smallest known black hole. The black hole discovered using the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer, a small satellite placed in orbit in 1995.

The black hole is only 3.8 times the mass of our own sun and is part of a binary system comprised of this black hole and an orbiting star. This is extremely small, about half of the mass of the previous record holder and billions of times smaller than the largest black holes.

If Einsteins theories hold true a black hole with a mass 3.8 times that of our sun, would only be 15 miles across; the size of a city.

If you want to know more, check out NASA.gov


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