Issues I am perplexed with

Free VoIP in the UK: Goo­gle gears up for a free-phone cha­llenge to BT
Wire­less Power: Mobi­le­Read — Wire­less power rechar­ging by Slash­po­wer
I pre­dic­ted it, I didn’t think it was pos­si­ble but it seems they have figu­red a way of doing it. I men­tio­ned it to some friends a few weeks back and here it is, ready for com­mer­cial use by the end of the year.

Other things I have noti­ced in tech­no­lo­gi­cal news have been the addi­tion of rat musc­les to sili­con chips and hope­fully deve­lo­ped into gene­ra­tors and the really exci­ting new divi­sion at MIT that is inves­ti­ga­tion biosynthe­tics and making elec­tro­nic cir­cuits using dna and bacteria. 

Quote:
Sili­con Valley: “In total, the core of our team has inves­ted something like 80 man years on this expe­ri­ment, 18 of which are mine. I think right now the key les­son is this — if you’re loo­king for a job with ins­tant and gua­ran­teed suc­cess, this isn’t it.”

– Uni­ver­sity of Idaho pro­fes­sor David Atkin­son, whose years of work on an expe­ri­ment to mea­sure the winds on Saturn’s moon Titan came to naught because someone for­got to turn it on