It takes around 45 minutes to make a full circuit of the island by motorcycle, and the road is a narrow concrete strip less than two metres across, shared between motorbikes, bicycles, pedestrians, livestock and hoards of giggling children.

BBC: Take the boat out of Bangkok

But the two researchers have already used them to make a simple, disposable memory circuit, which they will describe in a forthcoming issue of Applied Physics Letters.

ECONOMIST: A new use for a common material

Scientists at Stanford and MIT had targeted the dopamine neurons, which make a chemical thought to elevate mood in a reward circuit located in the midbrain.

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"The consumer electronics manufacturers would like to use the specifications as a cookbook so that they can make variations, " says Robert Schwartz, a lawyer with Circuit City.

FORBES: A cozy duopoly

"The challenge is to make a microbattery array that is robust enough and that does not have a single short circuit in the whole array via a process that can be scaled up cheaply, " said Prof Clare Grey from the University of Cambridge's chemistry department.

BBC: Super-powered battery breakthrough claimed by US team

For now, Wall Street believes in Cisco chief John Chambers, the Billy Graham of Internet Protocol, who proselytizes that the entire telecom world will make a fast conversion to IP, abandoning the "circuit switch" networks in which Lucent reigns.

FORBES: Wired and restless

To accomplish the trick, he trimmed the Game Boy's circuit board to make room for the guts of a Wiimote, which he then connected to the buttons.

ENGADGET

Rob Enderle, principal analyst at tech industry tracker Enderle Group, argues that rival Circuit City 's woes could make it ready to take a risk by pairing up with Dell.

FORBES: Magazine Article

In an earlier post, I wrote about the need for robust circuit breakers that would use real-time market data like a yellow flag to make markets safer and more stable.

FORBES: Fast Times at the SEC