How about those printed solar panels?

10 Tech Concepts for 2007 (Popular Mechanics via Slashdot)

This was really interesting read and one which I would find at the beginning of every year. New technologies and the level at which they might impact us in the coming year. A couple stand out:

1. Printed Solar Panels : LOW IMPACT Next step is an energy-generating pair of jeans or solar roofing tiles. Nothing but good can come from this.

2. Plasma Arc Gasifiction: LOW IMPACT (2009) Superheated trash with helpful by-products. Bring it. Build on the craters left by the landfills and do it right.

3. Data Clouds: HIGH IMPACT On it. I can see this one being huge for us in the next year. Ubiquitous data is everything. And it has arrived.

What's your most exciting tech for 2007, whether on or off this list?

Tighten up you crazy cords.

I have what looks to be a computer nest under my desk. It has to go away. A friend and I were discussing the techniques to properly do this and I found the answer here:

Cord Control from Lifehacker


Get to it.

Little Tip fer ya #1

Perhaps I'm not seeing well and this was in another release, but I just noticed that iTunes 7.0.1 has the downloads listed below your shopping cart while you are still downloading. It is always the subtle things that turn up in downloads that make me the most satisfied.

Go ahead and download a Podcast and feel the magic happen.