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May 11, 2008

U-verse in Tolland

Mini U-verse VRAD Woo hoo! We're getting closer. A week or two ago, this box was installed at the AT&T pad down the road. I've been able to confirm that it's a U-verse VRAD. I pass it every day, so I'm now watching for signs that it's being brought to life. Unfortunately, this pad doesn't directly serve our house, but things are looking promising. Now I'm watching the pad that does serve our house with eagle eyes. I can't wait to get rid of Comcast.

May 1, 2008

The Memristor Has Arrived

image This has to be one of the most exciting developments in electronics since the creation of the transistor back in the ’60s. The memristor was first conceived in theory back in 1971 to sit alongside the other mainstay passive components: the resistor, the capacitor, and the inductor. It took until now for scientists at HP to figure out how to build one. This opens the door for even smaller and higher-density nonvolatile memory, but even more importantly, analog computing that works much the same way the brain operates. Check out this article for more details.