MooPig 3-D Copy Department :: "Scientists Successfully 3D Print Embryonic Stem Cells For the First Time | Inhabitat"

In a Hurry to Get this Out ...
Mashed articles by Pat Darnell  |  Nov 19, 2013  |  Bryan TX

" ... What’s more, it may also become possible to personalize drugs by testing them with the cells of the person who actually needs them. Creating specific micro-tissues of that person would help doctors replicate their unique response to drugs and other medical treatments. (Kevin Lee, 11/11/13. LINK) ... "

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Scientists Successfully 3D Print Embryonic Stem Cells For the First Time | Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building:

" ... The artificial tissue could also provide laboratories with a ready supply of material for research purposes, eliminating animal drug testing and the need to acquire embryonic stem cells.

" ... The process – developed by Dr. Will Shu and his colleagues at Heriot-Watt University’s Biomedical Microengineering group in partnership with Roslin Cellab – is different from previous 3D cell printing attempts because it can produce delicate embryonic cell cultures. Prior to this, printing could only produce 2D cells or cells that are tougher than human stem cells.

“To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that these cells have been 3D printed. The technique will allow us to create more accurate human tissue models which are essential to in vitro drug development and toxicity-testing,” says Dr. Shu.

" ... The technology could provide doctors with an endless supply of organs for transplantation, and it could entirely eliminate the practice of animal drug testing. According to Dr. Shu, “In the longer term, we envisage the technology being further developed to create viable 3D organs for medical implantation from a patient’s own cells, eliminating the need for organ donation, immune suppression and the problem of transplant rejection.”

" ... Faulkner-Jones believes the technology could replace cruel and often inaccurate animal testing within five years. In addition to sparing animals, this technology could mitigate the issue of having to develop medicines that work perfectly on animals before they can be tested on humans, which slows down the process. ... "

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http://inhabitat.com/scientists-successfully-3d-print-embryonic-stem-cells-for-the-first-time/
http://inhabitat.com/3d-printed-human-cells-will-replace-animal-testing-in-five-years-says-bioengineer-expert/
http://inhabitat.com/organovos-bioprinter-technology-could-lead-to-3d-printed-human-organs/
http://inhabitat.com/organovo-3d-prints-the-worlds-first-tiny-human-livers/
http://inhabitat.com/incredible-medical-advancement-as-scientists-produce-living-kidney-using-3d-printer/
http://www.kurzweilai.net/3d-printing-human-embryonic-stem-cells-for-drug-testing-future-replacement-of-human-organs

MooPig Tech Coroner :: "The Internet of Everything"

The Death of the "Internet" -- and the birth of the "InterWorld"
Mashed articles by Pat Darnell  |  Nov 14, 2013  |  Bryan TX

[Picture source Unknown] This small-cap company's product is roughly the size of a silver dollar -- but it enjoys a dominant market share and air-tight patent protection.

Who is talking about this? I checked my gmail, and up came Motley Fool, an investing group who has my number.

Meaning tens of billions of regular "things"... Sidewalks and cereal boxes...minivans and dress pants...the lawn mower in your shed and the pillows on your bed... Will soon be connected together in an Internet of Everything.

Gmail - They're turning off your Internet -- make $44,500 when the Web goes dark: "4 Words, Can't-Miss Opportunity... Get in NOW on "The Internet of Everything" Sounds kind of funny, doesn't it... "The Internet of Everything.""

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Get ready for your new sneakers to be Internet-connected ... football helmets will show probabilities of plays success to quarterbacks in the huddle ... Your wedding rings will be Internet compatible so you never again forget your anniversary day ...

Need a stock tip for your future? Well this one might be a doozey. This bit proclaims every thing will be connected via internet. It claims the internet-connected devices globally will grow from 1.5 b
trillion devices to 50 billion devices by 2020.

Most investors haven't heard about the InterWorld yet -- they're still busy trying to figure out when Apple will release another piece of "iJunk".

Why NOW is the final stage of the Digital Era's "Implementation Gap"

Put simply, the Internet of Everything is the final stage of the Internet's progression.

But you haven't read this far just to hear the simple explanation!

So consider this: in 1969, when the Internet was first invented, it could only be used by a few professors operating some clunky switchboards in Menlo Park, California...

By 1986, a handful of high-powered players in the international community, including research institutes, educational systems -- and, so the rumor goes, the Pentagon -- were able to harness the power of the Internet for some secretive tinkering...

Then came the 1990's.

The convergence of desktop PCs and Internet Service Providers (or, as I like to call them, "those $@!% cable companies") brought the World Wide Web to consumers everywhere.

And for the next two decades, as companies like Apple and Samsung continued to release new gizmos and gadgets, the Internet went from being in two or three switchboards in California to two or three devices in every home in America.

But just like electricity made a snap transition from a "specialized technology" to a regular feature in everything from sneakers to school-supplies...

The Internet -- and all the potential for progress it brings with it -- is about to move from "Internet-Only" objects to EVERYDAY objects...

Meaning tens of billions of regular "things"...

Sidewalks and cereal boxes...minivans and dress pants...the lawn mower in your shed and the pillows on your bed...

Will soon be connected together in an Internet of Everything.

Granted, the "Internet of Everything" is just the term that scientists, CEOs, academics, and other brainiacs are using to talk about this incredible opportunity...

(And boy are they talking about it...in fact, for nearly a century the brightest minds in the world have been eagerly anticipating this enormous new market.)

But frankly, even though this shift will be absolutely massive in terms of its real-world impact, I think there's a relatively simple way to describe what's happening...

The Death of the "Internet" -- and the birth of the "InterWorld"

The Economist is breathless about how it will do everything from lowering crime to reducing road accidents...

The Wall Street Journal expects it to radically change both business and personal life -- from "the hand-towel dispenser in the washroom" to "your car, your kettle, your toaster... even the mousetraps in your attic."

The European Union is so convinced of this technology's massive impact that it already has a hush-hush multi-national committee (codenamed "Unit D4") working around the clock to introduce laws and governance for it...

And over in China the Beijing bureaucrats are planning to use it to make telephone-booth sized virtual health clinics for billions of rural villagers.

Heck, even the NFL is thinking about getting onboard. Pretty soon, referees might be out of a job...

Because the football will automatically "know" when it's crossed the goal-line!

CONCLUSION
We don''t make this stuff up. And MooPig loves to share Technological Deaths. Apparently Motley Fool's claims are based on population of 7.1 billion today. The purchase of the stock in the company they suggest is expected to increase at 89% a year for the next six years.

" ... [R]egardless of how you feel about the revolutionary technological shift the InterWorld represents, the facts of the matter are painfully clear:

•  The InterWorld revolution is already underway -- and gaining momentum at an incredible pace.
•  There is exactly one company that sits at the very heart of the InterWorld market...and it stands to rake in hundreds of billions of dollars between now and 2020. ... "

Of course, Motley Fool gives you all this information, but leaves out the name of the company that they recommend. It will cost you about $100 to find out what this is all about.

We cannot figure out why investment people write and vlog such long verbose speeches about what they are discovering. Do you know why? I get up to three new "blockbuster stock announcements" per day, but usually read, or listen, to only one every month. One a month seems tolerable.

We cannot offer advice on stock purchases because MooPig Enterprises doesn't know its ass from third base about stocks and stuff.


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MooPig's Blog This :: "Maybe You Saw The Signs | The Official BitTorrent Blog"

Maybe You Saw The Signs | The Official BitTorrent Blog: "Matt Mason currently serves as Vice President of Marketing at BitTorrent, Inc. He is also the bestselling author of The Pirate’s Dilemma, the first book in the history of the world to hit the number one spot on Amazon’s economics/free enterprise bestseller list and the rap bestseller list at the same time. He has written and produced TV series, screenplays, comic strips, apps and records, not to mention award-winning, global advertising campaigns. His journalism has appeared in The Guardian, The Independent, The Observer Music Monthly, Dazed and Confused, Adweek, VICE, and other publications in more than 20 countries."

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[READ Entire Article HERE]

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http://blog.bittorrent.com/2013/10/08/maybe-you-saw-the-signs/

MooPig Tech Coroner :: "The NSA's Hugely Expensive Utah Data Center is Unusable"

The Security Industry Blows it Again
mashed articles by Pat Darnell  |  Oct 9, 2013  |  Bryan TX

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" ... When the National Security Agency broke ground in 2011 on a $1.2 billion data center in Utah, it launched the largest defense construction project in the nation. (Laurie Bennett. June 9, 2013. LINK) ... "

The National Security Agency’s new billion-dollar-plus data center in Bluffdale, Utah was supposed to go online in September, but the Wall Street Journal’s Siobhan Gorman reports that it has major electrical problems and that the facility known as “the country’s biggest spy center” is presently nearly unusable:

The NSA's Hugely Expensive Utah Data Center Has Major Electrical Problems And Basically Isn't Working - Forbes: "Chronic electrical surges at the massive new data-storage facility central to the National Security Agency’s spying operation have destroyed hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of machinery and delayed the center’s opening for a year, according to project documents and current and former officials. There have been 10 meltdowns in the past 13 months that have prevented the NSA from using computers at its new Utah data-storage center, slated to be the spy agency’s largest, according to project documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal."

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" ... The NSA described the center’s mission as supporting “the intelligence community’s efforts to further strengthen and protect the nation’s cyber security.”

Its aim, officials said then, was to help other government agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, in protecting national security networks.

It appears that its purpose is also to plumb other computer networks, in the United States and abroad. The New York Times reports that the center is designed to “to store huge volumes of personal data indefinitely.” (Laurie Bennett. June 9, 2013. LINK) ... "




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EXCERPT  |  " ... When I [Kashmir Hill] wrote about the Utah data center holding less information than was previously thought given the current limitations of technology in this space, some critics scoffed. They suggested that the NSA is far more advanced in its technology than companies like Google and Facebook with which I was drawing comparisons. This report from the WSJ about the flawed plans for the data center encourages some skepticism about NSA tech. And it definitely raises questions about the NSA budget. The center itself cost over a billion dollars to build, has a $1 million+ monthly electricity bill, and has cost up to $100,000 each time a “kill zone” happens. Those numbers are as disturbing as the privacy concerns raised by the Snowden leaks. (Kashmir Hill, Forbes Staff. Oct 7, 2013. LINK)..."

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http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/10/07/the-nsas-hugely-expensive-utah-data-center-has-major-electrical-problems-and-basically-isnt-working/
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304441404579119490744478398.html?mod=wsj_nview_latest
http://news.muckety.com/2013/06/09/the-national-security-industrial-complex/42991
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304441404579119490744478398.html?mod=wsj_nview_latest
http://www.muckety.com/ptmoyb.htm?map=38EA3BC7474B3D7A26E254B7D44E037A.map&autoGroup=7,7
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/03/04/nsa-utah-data-center-visit/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/07/24/blueprints-of-nsa-data-center-in-utah-suggest-its-storage-capacity-is-less-impressive-than-thought/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/netapp/2013/07/26/nsa-utah-datacenter/

MooPig Tech Solutions Department :: "Tesla"

From our own Sidebar "Hack N Mod"
Retrieved by Pat Darnell  |  July 31, 2013  |  Bryan TX

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DIY Tesla Coil Gun | Hack N Mod: "The beloved Tesla coil – now in portable form!  We’ve seen loads of Tesla coils over the years, from desktop size to absurdly massive, but this is the first portable, battery powered version we’ve seen.  Fun fact: you can even buy Tesla Coils on eBay!  The evil mad scientist shown above uses a transformer to convert battery power into high voltage, high frequency, low current electricity.  And of course, the results look incredible:"

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http://hacknmod.com/hack/diy-tesla-coil-gun/
http://www.rmcybernetics.com/projects/DIY_Devices/plasma-gun-2.htm

 WARNING: This project involves dangerous high voltage electricity!

MooPig Trade Show Department :: "Reviewing CES 2013"

Another Opening, Another Show
by Pat Darnell | Jan 20, 2013 | Bryan TX

The International Consumer Electronics Show is innovation. However, CES, January 6th through 11th, 2013, has been criticized as "lacking" in luster. Several reasons make it so: manufacturers have their own time tables for moving their new products. Such as Microsoft, who released Windows 8 in October 2012, and all the innovative, new laptops followed. All happening before the trade show and exposition.

In the past new products were most often showcased at the CES which has been in January over the years. Here are some of the innovative products you can expect in the coming months.

These items caught the eye of the poor bastards down in MooPig's Electronics Department in the basement.

Huh?

Tactus' morphing touchscreen was quite likely our all-around favorite device at the show. It combines a great idea with interesting potential and that full-on science fiction wow when you first see the "keyboard" inflate. Tactus hopes to see products shipping with its tactile touchscreen this year in devices ranging from phones to devices for the visually impaired. We wish them well and look forward to checking out what may eventually come of this technology.

At first glance the HAPILABS HAPIfork seems more novelty than tech -- and may well prove to be -- but it definitely stepped away from the norm and garnered a pile of attention. The idea is you use the fork as you normally would, but it keeps track of how long you eat, how quickly and how many bites you take. It then shares these metrics with a Runtastic-like site. Eat too quickly and the fork or spoon -- the end is detachable -- will vibrate to let you know to slow down a touch. The $99 HAPIfork ships in Q2 this year.

CES 2013: top 10 moments | News | TechRadar: " Xi3 Corporation and Valve talk Steam-powered Piston Gaming is usually a sideshow at CES, but it stole major spotlight this year thanks to an announcement by Valve. The company chosen to be Valve's first public partner in this venture is the Xi3 Corporation. Xi3 has a CES presence, too. They showed off the Piston, said to be the fruit of their partnership with Valve.

While their representatives wouldn't talk specs or availability, or even refer to the prototype as a Steam Box, Xi3 already has powerful and compact systems on the market. Like the rest of the gaming community, our curiosity was piqued. The possibility of a machine like this bringing PC gaming to the living room, and competing with the upcoming Xbox 720 and PS4 is beyond exciting."

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Playing around with ThinkGeek's table full of toys was unquestionably a highlight of 2013 CES experience, which is (thankfully) nearly at an end. In amongst the always awesome licensed Star Trek and Star Wars toys was the Princip Interactive LED Futuro Cube, a strange game device created with ThinkGeek. The device brings to mind the Rubik's Cube, if only because its a geometrical puzzle game. In place of colored squares are a series of different colored LED lights.

Like Rubik's famous three-dimensional toy, the Futuro isn't particularly easy to master. It has a menu system and offers up a series of audible commands to access its different games. Getting started takes a quick shake and it can be put to sleep with couple of taps. There's also a USB port on one side for downloading software updates, including new games.

Nokia is here to show that the maker community isn’t alone in its love for 3D printing. The mobile phone maker has released a 3D-printing Development Kit, cutely named 3DK for short, that gives people the files and information they need to print a custom Lumia 820 back case.

The company is essentially making it possible for its users to tailor their phone to their tastes, an unusual move in a space where companies exert tight control over their technologies and design innovations. Nokia is, according to Nokia, the first major phone company to do this.

It released the files for the Lumia 820 back shell on Friday. They can be found on the company’s developer site here, here and here.




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http://www.techradar.com/us/news/computing/ces-2013-top-10-moments-1111489
http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/14/ces-2013-best-of-show-roundup/
http://www.engadget.com/tag/ces+2013/
http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2013/01/10-best-gadgets-of-ces-2013.html
http://www.digitaltrends.com/gadgets/forget-ces-2013-heres-whats-coming-at-ces-2014/
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/01/gadget-lab-show-ces-samsung-galaxy-camera/
http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/14/tech/gaming-gadgets/ces-roundup-2013/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_us+(RSS%3A+U.S.)
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/01/the-best-of-ces-2013/
http://www.engadget.com/tag/HAPILABS/
http://www.engadget.com/tag/Tactus/
http://www.techradar.com/us/news/gaming/consoles/valve-unveils-first-steam-box-hardware-for-big-screen-gaming-1123543
http://www.engadget.com/tag/ThinkGeek/
http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/11/thinkgeek-interview/

MooPig's Tech Coroner :: "Demise of the Fossil Fuel Industry" PART TWO

[Picture LINK]  ... Heat Waves and Our Aging Electrical Grid

" ... Electricity now powers devices of amazing technological sophistication, from lightning-fast desktop computers to flat screen TVs. But our means of getting power from the plant to the plug hasn't changed much since the early 20th century. "

Equipment Aging
Retrieved by Pat Darnell | June 28, 2012 | Bryan TX

IEEE Xplore - Abstract Page: "Thereby, the results can provide an early forecasting for equipment fault and scientific evidences for equipment maintenance and out of service, which are caused by equipment aging."

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" ... Models have been published addressing the issue of the calculation of the remaining life, future failure rates and the probability of failure of power equipment. ... " (HERE)

" ... Older equipment have higher failure rates, leading to customer interruption rates affecting the economy and society; also, older assets and facilities lead to higher inspection maintenance costs and further repair/restoration costs. ... " (HERE)

" ... Aging transmission and distribution infrastructure poses increasing obstacles for the power industry. Industry-wide run-to-failure policies have left large portions of utilities' transmission and distribution infrastructure rapidly approaching or exceeding expected service lifetimes. ... " (HERE)

" ... At 3:05 p.m. on Aug. 14, 2003, a 345-kV transmission line in northern Ohio began to sag. This happens commonly, especially during hot summer days, when the demand for power created by all those air conditioners can cause power lines to slacken.

Energy, which was responsible for powering northern Ohio, should have detected the loss of that first line, but its energy management system wasn't working at the time (the company didn't know that). Higher up, the Midwest Independent System Operator's state estimator, which helps ensure reliability for several utility companies in the region, had just been taken down for troubleshooting that day, and wasn't fully back online yet, so operators were unable to get an accurate, real-time picture of what was happening to the grid. ... " (HERE)


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http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=4912630&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fiel5%2F4912595%2F4912596%2F04912630.pdf%3Farnumber%3D4912630
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_grid
http://www.euci.com/events/?ci=1689&t=O
http://www.euci.com/events/?ci=1377&t=O
http://www.fujielectric.com/company/tech/pdf/55-03/FER-55-3-099-2009.pdf
http://site.ge-energy.com/prod_serv/plants_td/en/downloads/casestudies_dtech.pdf
http://www.scribd.com/doc/94623624/Equipment-Aging
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1831346,00.html

MooPig's Tech Coroner :: "Demise of the Fossil Fuel Industry?"

[Picture LINK] " ... We have now passed Peak Oil which began back in 1979 (some disagree with this date but all concede we have past peak oil) the decline is unavoidable. Few can conceive of what lies ahead. Complacency reigns. By far the great majority of people, including those at the very top in all strata of society, including governments, industry, and the media, will be caught unawares. ... "

Retrieved by Pat Darnell | June, 2012 | Bryan TX

350.org: "After the birth of our first grandchild (Dougie), my wife Karen and I participated in the March on Blair Mountain last June, we were arrested in front of the White House on August 22 as part of the Tar Sands Action, we were part of the Ring Around the White House in November and we haven't looked back.  Little Dougie needs to grow up in a world freed from the tyranny of fossil fuels.  There is something about rubbing elbows with climate activists of all stripes, all ages, all races, and from every region of the world that lets us know that we aren't in this alone, that there is hope." (Michael Bagdes-Canning of Tour de Frack posted by Duncan Meisel - 06/27/12. HERE )

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The real story is about our Power Grid and it's strengths and frailty. How safe is our electricity that flows to, well, flows to everywhere?

Does each person in fact have the ability in today's tech world mechanics to actually produce his own electrical power source? And does each one of us have the right to this technology?

These are the questions MooPig will be asking for the next few days. But it all starts with the raw material of Power, doesn't it? Fossil fuels.

One would hope that in the current climate change situation world wide, that a common goal is to limit the emissions of CO2 into the atmosphere. This site, 350.org, is about limiting the CO2 index to 350 ppm, and below. We are currently at 392 ppm CO2:

" ... At 350.org, we're building a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis and push for policies that will put the world on track to get to 350 ppm. (350.org)... "

World Politics?! YIKES! Why is it always some political football? Oh, well, we give up. What happened to the decision making process?


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http://350.org/
http://www.democracynow.org/2012/6/27/bill_mckibben_of_350org_on_colorado
http://www.thefuture.net.nz/peakoil.htm


WKPDA Footnotes:
In cities and towns of North America, the grid tends to follow the classic radially fed design. A substation receives its power from the transmission network, the power is stepped down with a transformer and sent to a bus from which feeders fan out in all directions across the countryside. These feeders carry three-phase power, and tend to follow the major streets near the substation. As the distance from the substation grows, the fanout continues as smaller laterals spread out to cover areas missed by the feeders. This tree-like structure grows outward from the substation, but for reliability reasons, usually contains at least one unused backup connection to a nearby substation. This connection can be enabled in case of an emergency, so that a portion of a substation's service territory can be alternatively fed by another substation.

Apocalypto Potter Generic

Series: How to Market your Manuscript in 2009, and beyond
by Pat Darnell and the Herd

If you truly want to sell your book in today's market place, you better have an Apocalypto Cover on it. Faux ancient, or Potter-Charismatico cover art will smartly serve your marketing efforts, as these seem the only selling breed of books.

Even if your book is about "changing baby diapers" you might consider an illustration of a cute little infant with horns on your cover.

I look for "rare, ancient" text on shelves of Barnes and Ignoble. Others surely are drawn to the same style of cover. We live in a College town, and its student population is walking, talking cross section of our book reading society, or what is left of it. At local big barn book resellers, students gather.

A place at oaken study tables comes at a premium at Barnes and Ignoble's on Texas Avenue across from Texas A and M University. Arrive early and you can stake out a really sturdy library type table for an afternoon. However, there is a little bit of fine tuning needed if the fashionable bookstore is to survive the IT microcosm.

Beside the ever pressing intervention of Electronic textbooks and friendly Hot-spot IT access... iPOD Touch and rival operating systems square off to show students the way to glorious button pushing careers.

Suggest to your publisher some of these ideas. For instance Moo Pig's "Book Marketing Analysts" suggest:

1. If Barnes and Ignoble's would only try some strobe lighting with disco ball "Buy One Get One Free" fifteen minute rave moshes at random times... this could bring a pile of toxic assets to the book retailer. And we all know by now toxic assets is the way to go.

2. Then while all those students are rushing up to the check out counter, B and I's could unleash Demo carts full of sausage and crackers for taste tests offered to the queue of students carrying spine cracking large books about WWII and Eisenstadt...

3. As the inventory leaves the shelves in torrents, B and I's could run a survey with store personnel holding scanning guns, while referring to the super large jumbo-tron drive-in-movie-like presentation over the children books area at the rear of the store.

Figure this into your pricing structure for your book since a large budget, high end, understated youTube ripoff would serve this scanning survey purpose very well as each participant gets a 333 on his\her hand.

4. Last idea to come from the think-thankless tank at Moo Pig's sweat box offices -- a good old book burning needs resurrecting, for gosh's sakes. How long has it been since we had uniformed Nubian's piling books in a parking lot fire? NO? Hey give it a chance.

Battery of Headlines

MCUs Double Battery Life
Employing a unique eight-bit architecture and integrating high-efficiency dc/dc boost converters, the C8051F9xx family of "microcontrollers (MCUs)" is described as the industry's first MCUs capable of operating down to 0.9V, enabling portable devices to derive power from a single-cell battery. The devices specify a typical sleep-mode current of less than 50 nA and can wake-up from sleep mode with the CPU operating at 25 MIPS and ready to make an a/d converter measurement within 2 ms. Active-mode current ranges as low as 170 µA/MHz. The family includes devices with 32 KB and 64 KB of flash and all include 4 KB of RAM. Available in 32-pin, 7 mm x 7 mm LQFP, 24-pin, 4 mm x 4 mm QFN, and 32-pin, 5 mm x 5 mm QFN packages, pricing starts at $1.99 each/10,000. SILICON LABORATORIES INC., Austin, TX. (877) 444-3032. PRODUCT INFO: Click Here For more Microcontrollers with flash, click here.
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Rev up your interdisciplinary design skills

What happens when a microcontroller turns on a power FET, sending a current pulse to a motor coil that develops a magnetic field that turns the rotor shaft, advancing a timing belt that drives a pair of nip rolls suspended on bearings in a web-processing operation on a form, fill, and seal machine installed on a potato chip line at a Frito Lay plant in central California?

• And how can you be sure that the encoders, prox sensors, and other feedback devices you plan to use will accurately see and report every relevant motion, machine state, and process condition?
• And will the signals get through the networks fast enough, without being corrupted, giving the controllers time to execute their algorithms as intended?
• It's a lot to think about, and it only scratches the surface of what many engineers grapple with today. If you happen to be one of them, then the place for you — where you can find answers and meet others with similar concerns — is www.Mechatronic-Design.com.

Backed by some of engineering's top information sources including Machine Design, Electronic Design, Motion System Design, and Power Electronics --" Mechatronic-Design.com " is the interdisciplinary engineer's desktop, toolbox, library, and lifeline in one easily accessible place.