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10/09/2006

Jet-Powered Laptops?

That's right, according to MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, future laptops could be powered by mini gas turbine engines that are "no larger than a quarter -- delivering five to ten times the endurance of a similarly sized battery pack."
Espstein and his team are building the first engine using a sandwich of six silicon wafers that are bonded together at an atomic level, and plan to power it with liquid butane, the same stuff used in cigarette lighters, to avoid having the thing smell like an airport runway
[via SciFi]

This entry was posted on 10/09/2006 04:20am and is filed under Laptops, Science .
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Posted at 10/09/2006 06:18am by Jet Powered Laptop - Gadget Review Blog
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Posted at 10/09/2006 10:00am by xcopy
sweet...now something else in my life will have a check engine light.
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Posted at 10/09/2006 1:55pm by Gadget-Approved Blavish Links - bLavish
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Posted at 10/09/2006 2:07pm by ShadowVlican
shouldn't we be designing something that's not dependant on liquid fuels (oils)
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Posted at 10/09/2006 4:40pm by B Killa
Ok, weird! So instead of just being able to plug your laptop in, you'd have keep a bottle of jet fuel with you???? What about a hydrogen powered laptop or something more enviromentally friendly??
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