Your PDA could burn a hole in your pocket
Posted: 20 October 2004 at 09:58:02
I ran across an interesting story yesterday titled Power on a Chip. It’s about a firm that has developed a jet turbine engine the size of a shirt button. They intend to test it for use it as a power source in cell phones, PDAs, military field equipment, etc.
What a wonderful idea!
There was a quote in the story, though, that made me crack up.
“The only thing we could see doing with tiny engines was flying tiny
airplanes, and that seemed stupid.”
—Alan Epstein, jet engine guy
—Alan Epstein, jet engine guy