“Meep! Meep!” is all the competition hears now….The US Military has the fastest supercomputer now…
And guess what? THe CPUs began their design life destined for gaming computers.

This isn’t the first time the gaming industry and the US Military has put it’s heads together to do something amazing, either.

So, now “Road Runner” leads the supercomputer pack.

Not computer related, but great technology from the medical field, and sadly from something bad, there are doctors and researchers are working on something very good for everyone. Salamander-inspired therapy may aid injured vets from CNN:

By Larry Shaughnessy
CNN Pentagon ProducerSAN ANTONIO, Texas (CNN) — Last week in an operating room in Texas, a wounded American soldier underwent a history-making procedure that could help him regrow the finger that was lost to a bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, last year.

Army Sgt. Shiloh Harris’ doctors applied specially formulated powder to what’s left of the finger in an effort to do for wounded soldiers what salamanders can do naturally: replace missing body parts.

If it sounds like science fiction, the lead surgeon agreed.

“It is. But science fiction eventually becomes true, doesn’t it?” asked Dr. Steven Wolf of Brooke Army Medical Center.

Harris’ surgery is part of a major medical study of “regenerative medicine” being pursued by the Pentagon and several of the nation’s top medical facilities, including the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and the Cleveland Clinic. Nearly $250 million has been dedicated to the research.
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Amazing, and life changing for all trauma victims in the future.

A little humor…good for the soul…

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And toss this in for a little more, including a “Star Wars” theme

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Graphene. A relatively new discovery, of a material we’ve had in our pencils all these years…cool ideas are in the works!

Mo’ better way to skydive - without the plane…

Wind tunnels keep getting better and better. I was able to get into the one at Ft. Bragg years ago by special invite and to be coached by the Golden Knights (including one of President Bush’s (41) jumpmasters. Video is on a VHS tape around here somewhere.  Yea…it was a while ago.

Go and Check out the Paraclete XP site…and also watch this video at MIlitary.com.

Trivia: Glenn Bangs was the the commander of the first 82nd Airborne unit to land in Saudi for the very start of Desert Shield (and was the other jumpaster for President Bush).

Sure, we love our pets, so it had to happen sooner or later, getting them to share our addictive computer gaming world with us (and keeps them off your lap when you’re busy fragging the “competition”…Video games for cats. Go figure…it’s what America does best: create wealth out of a silly idea.

From Popular Science: The best surgeon is but an internet connection away, and now the system is improved!

The Da Vinci robot for distance surgery has an added advantage: It tracks what are of the patient the surgeon is looking at and provides the doctor with a 3D image of the anatomy.

What will they think of next?

or…maybe better titled “Fallout of Technology Tuesday.”

From Engadget:

Compulsive e-mailing, texting could be classified as bona fide illness

Posted Mar 17th 2008 8:11PM by Darren Murph
Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
Considering the plethora of facilities that have opened just in the past few years to deal solely with individuals that have become undoubtedly addicted to video games, the internet and all things Hello Kitty (we jest, we jest), we’re not surprised one iota to hear that uncontrollably texting / e-mailing could soon become “classified as an official brain illness.”
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Watch your usage….before your freinds and family show up for an “intervention.”

Can handle the thought of putting on cheap plastic specs to get a 3D view of a virtual world?

Good news! Help is on the way!

FANTASTIC PLASTIC: Prototypes made from the photorefractive polymer film so far offer small—four-square inch (10 centimeter)—monochrome images, such as this ethane molecule.
Photo: University of Arizona College of Optical ScienceFrom Scientific American:

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Researchers at the University of Arizona’s College of Optical Sciences (OSC) in Tucson, and engineers from Nitto Denko Technical Corporation, in Oceanside, Calif., recently unveiled a prototype of a photorefractive polymer film on which 3-D images can be recorded, erased and replaced with new images. When carried out swiftly enough, this process leads to a series of images on the film that deliver three-dimensional action that can be picked up by the naked eye.

I’m confident I can say a display for your home might be a little pricey right now, not to mention a sort of still in the engineering Frankenstein-istic look about it, too. The “hope” (we hear a lot about that these days) is stuff like this tends to get to be real and affordable one day…hopefully before Darth Vader and friends try to take over the universe.

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