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Namorvia · 21st September 2007, 01:26 PM

Mara's cyberwiz is solar powerered so i'm waiting for that technology to develop, i like solar power. How much further do we have to advance before we're there, calculators can be pretty complex these days (showing graphs and stuff) and I have my PDA (palm top computer (what it is, not what PDA stands for, that i'm not sure of)) Which is no bigger than a calculator and while its not powered solarly it can do all sort; access the internet, play music, use word/exel/pwrpnt. And most/some phones can do that now too. I'd say its actually more powerful and useful than our families first computer back on Windows 3.1 and Dos. It might be worth experimenting into how much of our ever expanding array of gadgets, our mobiles, ipods, etc. could maybe be charged solarly. Admittedly most devices are to small to carry the pannels on themselves, but clothing, cars, buildings, all the places we keep our gadgets might be.

Ooh, that got carried away. Anyone ever see that film, i forget what its called, but i think its Mel Gibson and he thinks he's abducted by aliens and then he can think really clearly and one of the things he comes up with is using Chlorophyll on solar panels to make them more effective, i'm guessing it doesn't actually work otherwise we'd do it, but there could be some such "natural engineering" tricks out there that could help.

Apparently there was an artical in New Scientist a while back (a year or so now) about wind power, saying that they were looking at creating the wind power generators high up in the air suspended by the speed of the wind up there then they would just put a cable all the way down to the ground.

How did i get on to that... talk of batteries i think.
I prefer books to trying to read stories on a screen. I hung around a fantasy forum a while back and rather than read peoples stories on the screen i used to print them off. I even tend to print off my own stories occationally to edit them on paper. Its harder to change then, but easier to see what needs changing.

If they could find some way of having a book that could change the story inside it that would be good, maybe even better than a normal book, because it would be personal, like a diary, because you've read all your books in that one book. If someone came up with flexipaper you could it with braille, pins underneath push up the words then you push a button to change the page and it changes where the pins are for the next page. Not quite like a real book, but its an idea. Hmm, now my minds buzzing.

21st September 2007, 01:26 PM	#35 (permalink)
Namorvia Noosrunner pro Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Gwynedd Posts: 34	Re: Exodus Mara's cyberwiz is solar powerered so i'm waiting for that technology to develop, i like solar power. How much further do we have to advance before we're there, calculators can be pretty complex these days (showing graphs and stuff) and I have my PDA (palm top computer (what it is, not what PDA stands for, that i'm not sure of)) Which is no bigger than a calculator and while its not powered solarly it can do all sort; access the internet, play music, use word/exel/pwrpnt. And most/some phones can do that now too. I'd say its actually more powerful and useful than our families first computer back on Windows 3.1 and Dos. It might be worth experimenting into how much of our ever expanding array of gadgets, our mobiles, ipods, etc. could maybe be charged solarly. Admittedly most devices are to small to carry the pannels on themselves, but clothing, cars, buildings, all the places we keep our gadgets might be. Ooh, that got carried away. Anyone ever see that film, i forget what its called, but i think its Mel Gibson and he thinks he's abducted by aliens and then he can think really clearly and one of the things he comes up with is using Chlorophyll on solar panels to make them more effective, i'm guessing it doesn't actually work otherwise we'd do it, but there could be some such "natural engineering" tricks out there that could help. Apparently there was an artical in New Scientist a while back (a year or so now) about wind power, saying that they were looking at creating the wind power generators high up in the air suspended by the speed of the wind up there then they would just put a cable all the way down to the ground. How did i get on to that... talk of batteries i think. I prefer books to trying to read stories on a screen. I hung around a fantasy forum a while back and rather than read peoples stories on the screen i used to print them off. I even tend to print off my own stories occationally to edit them on paper. Its harder to change then, but easier to see what needs changing. If they could find some way of having a book that could change the story inside it that would be good, maybe even better than a normal book, because it would be personal, like a diary, because you've read all your books in that one book. If someone came up with flexipaper you could it with braille, pins underneath push up the words then you push a button to change the page and it changes where the pins are for the next page. Not quite like a real book, but its an idea. Hmm, now my minds buzzing.