EPFL Laboratories is nearing completion of their first nanosatellite prototype. They claim it will be able to make it to the Moon on 100 ml of fuel, it would take the device 6 months. The device itself is only 30 cm in length, powered by solar panels, and the "fuel" is an ionic liquid rather than a conventional fuel type. They're so cute, I want one.

A new startup being supported by the co-founder of Skype called FreedomPop is promising free mobile broadband internet technology that is funded by ads and social features. The signal will provide you 1 GB free data usage high speed internet each month, paying extra will provide you more data usage and other features. It looks like you acquire the technology in the form of a "free" iPhone case, free in the sense that you pay FreedomPop a refundable deposit that you can get back if you decide you no longer want the technology. It looks like right now this is a United States only venture, which is painful, but I'm sure the idea will spread and other ventures will soon start up worldwide.

Jinha Lee, a Microsoft intern, has managed to develop the first interesting transparent 3D virtual desktop hardware / software that I've ever seen. As the user you literally reach out into the projected three dimensional space to grab and manipulate windows and files. It's not something you can do from all angles yet, though, you must be sitting in front of and looking through a transparent monitor screen in order to see the projected 3D space.

Nvidia's new GeForce GTX 680 card card has reached a transistor count of 3.5 billion.

Again, it has been a very busy week in technology, it's getting so hard to keep up with everything, it's all developing so quickly, and to realize that it's only going to keep accelerating is so awesome to consider. I can't stress it enough, we are experiencing the most transformative period of human history that may ever happen, the most interesting period of human development ever. The next decade is going to blow our fucking brains sky high, singularity is near, bros.

And now for MOAR:
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