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“The device seen by Technology Review was made in a pilot factory in Taiwan that has mostly produced sample displays distributed to potential partners and customers, although a relatively small number of commerical displays will be made there. Chui says that a second, larger factory in Taiwan, big enough for production at a very large scale, is under construction and will come online in mid-2012. With the larger factory incomplete, truly mass-market devices with Mirasol displays can only appear in the second half of next year. Qualcomm is planning to invest up to $975 million in the new factory.”

Next year, color video on a small reader full sunlight and several times LCD’s life per charge. Faster Please….and get it on the iPad…

NaNoWriMo Day 19 Status

Posted on November 19, 2011 by Sci Fi Engineer

So: I probably wrote about 300 words yesterday the rest today. I’m obviously almost at the 50K. But only about half done with the long version of the story. Never Short Harris is probably a good nickname for me. After Nov, going to have to get back to editing Exotic Contraband, if I hope to get it into publishable form soon. But I like Elgin, and hopefully other will to.

From NaNoWriMo Page:

Target Word Count 50,000 Target Average Words Per Day 1,667

Words Written Today 3,368

Total Words Written 48,909 Current Day 19

Your Average Per Day 2,574

Words Remaining 1,091 Days Remaining 12

Words Per Day To Finish On Time 91

At This Rate You Will Finish On November 19, 2011

Blue Origin test hop

Posted on November 18, 2011 by Sci Fi Engineer

Short hop test very cool video

NaNoWriMo day 18 Nada

Posted on November 18, 2011 by Sci Fi Engineer

Two paragraphs today. Tomorrow is another day.

Hot footed Neutrinos seen again

Posted on November 18, 2011 by Sci Fi Engineer

CERN has re run the ‘faster than light’ neutrino experiment and replicated the results even after refining their methods. Still lots of controversy but exciting.

War in the 21st Century, 2nd of 2 parts

Posted on November 17, 2011 by Sci Fi Engineer

Beating the Decline

Over at Baen Books the second Beating Decline monograph, dealing with the new high tech realms. Ground war, Space and Cyberwar/Borderless War. Has some interesting insights on systems tested in Iraq and ‘Stan that I had not heard but make sense. Here is the 1st post.

NaNoWriMo Day 17 Status

Posted on November 17, 2011 by Sci Fi Engineer

So todays version of Elgin is up at Smashwords, or should be shortly. As before please have a look and let me know what you think. If you can plow through all the bad grammar, fumble finger mistakes, cut and paste snafu’s etc. You can follow the links to the side they should get you there, and they also give you access to the Moon Dreams a sci fi thriller about the year after next year, and if you like that, Under Siege, a novel of the far distant future, where humans are still human far from the wreckage that was Earth.

Cheers

Status from NaNoWriMo:

Target Word Count 50,000 Target Average Words Per Day 1,667

Words Written Today 1,071

Total Words Written 45,541 Current Day 17

Your Average Per Day 2,678

Words Remaining 4,459 days Remaining 14

Words Per Day To Finish On Time 319

At This Rate You Will Finish On November 18, 2011