The team at MIT came up with a niffty notebook for a US$100.  It has a power generator that provides power on a ten to one ratio (one minute of cranking equals ten minutes of useage).  There is an article here somewhere in this blog on the India initiative for a low cost computing device which can also be hand powered.

I really have been too busy to look at the market.  WOW has not been good in terms of family life and blogging and any other acceptable human endeavours.  As my son says "Its evil."  Me thinks that is a Spongebob term. 

As I looked at the market, I see the AMD and Intel moving up.  Hmm... what did I say?  Back to school, Christmas and end of year corporate purchase are usually big drivers for PC purchase.  The microprocessor used by the MIT folks is based on AMD. 

My focus these days have shifted even away from PC computing.  I am focused in the gaming (PC gaming and not gambling although that is what is putting food on the table) and mobile space.  I am starting to see some validity in the gambling space after spending a week in London, UK.  What a gambling culture!  It is all true - there is a sports bet store on every block much like a mobile store in every block in Asia.  I met some very interesting companies in the sports betting business.  I can get into that ;-)  I bet my colleague on who would get through the airport security first - just to give some excitment to a really boring and painful excercise everytime you fly.  So, I can ethically support sports betting because it is fun and it makes the games more exciting.  I cannot, however, support the casinos where the games are designed for the player to loose over the long run.  And, they get FREAKING PISSED if you can beat the system.  That is criminal behaviour as they really want the odds to be stacked against the player for the house. 

When we were in London, the week they won the Ashes, a BIG cricket tournament that the English have not won in 16 years, the sports betting went through the roof. 

OK back to work and WOW.