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?

Marmaduke for the humorless

IF YOU NEED IT, there is now a site to clarify and explain the subtlties of Marmaduke comics. Not only is it GREAT that someone did this, but OMG ITS GREAT.

Smiling, inviting clichés

Thank heavens someone had the time and space to put this together. I'm including a few of my own extra images just to cap off the argument which has already been so perfectly presented.

While we are on the subject, I'd like to make images not have to work so hard. They don't solve anything and sometimes dilute a perfectly good argument. If I see one more smiling person on a bank ad or an insurance brochure....
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