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Aren’t you tired of news articles with a title like this one?

With hundreds of so called “breakthroughs” happening each day I’m no longer surprised by anything. I’m sure that some day we’re going to be able to teleport wired and wirelessly, so what?

We’re not going to carry laptops in the future, are we happy?

This just reminds me of Bill Gates’ predictions about speech recognition.

Why don’t things are mentioned only when they are ready in mass production for the whole market in the world (cheap and all that)?

Companies, writers, etc., need to come up with something different, we’re already tired of breakthroughs that aren’t breakthroughs at all.

The other day, in the Business Administration class, the professor mentioned Wireless Electricity, don’t remember what was the topic about at the moment but I just wanted to document here the couple of sources I found about it.

On my feed reader, the first reference I have about Wireless Electricity is the Power to the People post on patrickWeb, that dates back to December 18, 2006. Then we have this article in Slashdot that points us to the Boston Globe article MIT discovery could unplug your iPod forever (they had to use the word iPod in here, right?), to the Wireless energy promise powers up in the BBC News, and finally to the article Goodbye wires… in the MIT News.

Another interesting topic I remembered when WiTricity was mentioned is the one about levitation, here’s an article I had stored in my del.icio.us bookmarks: Physicists have ’solved’ mystery of levitation. And yet another thing I just remembered right now is the control of computers with the brain, see this reference.

Almost all of the links stored on del.icio.us.

Looks like during the week, Micro$oft won an award.

I’m just wondering if they’re going to claim their prize.