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...idiotic. So the PC stayed in the living room, a disappointed Microsoft renamed WebTV as msn TV in 2001, and convergence was relegated to the Internet-boom graveyard, next to Pets.com and retiring before 30. Pass the remote. Sometimes, you can't keep a good buzzword down. The microchip is once again creeping toward the living room. And this time, thanks to a wave of new products and digital-appliance advances, convergence seems ready to take hold. Your TV viewing - indeed, your entire home-entertainment experience - may never be the same. A Miami-based company called Alienware makes a custom...
...developed by Spheral Solar of Cambridge, Ontario, work by embedding silicon beads in an aluminum and plastic mesh. Each bead works like a tiny solar cell, turning light into electricity. And the material not only produces energy cleanly, but the silicon used is itself a waste product of the microchip industry. The flexible solar cells come into production next year. "The new material is far more robust than normal glass-based solar cells," says Dan Davies, an engineer at Solar Century, a London-based renewable energy company, "and it could also lead to a new flexibility in building design...
Ardesta, the Ann Arbor venture-capital firm and self-styled "accelerator" of small technologies, has raised about $100 million in capital to nurture companies such as Discera, which is trying to shrink key cell-phone components onto a square-centimeter microchip, and Sensicore, which develops products that analyze water and blood. "I would tell you we are talking about this as a revolution," says Malhotra, "but I view nanotechnology as an evolution...
PILGRIM: Here are five technology picks, on the hunch that many things will get better: Documentum, JDA Software, Mercury Interactive, QLogic and Microchip Technology. They're the dominant factor in everything they do. They're the quality in a busted-up sector. Away from tech, we like Bed Bath & Beyond. It has lots of years to grow. Starbucks--they're going to open three or four times as many stores over the next decade...
Derek, his mom Leslie and his dad Jeffrey are the first volunteer test subjects for a new, implantable computer device called VeriChip. Later this spring, pending Food and Drug Administration approval, doctors will load a wide-bore needle with a microchip containing a few kilobytes of silicon memory and a tiny radio transmitter and inject it under the skin of their left arms, where it will serve as a medical identification device. It sounds like science fiction. (Remember the Borg on Star Trek? Resistance is futile!) But VeriChip is quite real. The Jacobs family could be the first...