Future of Batteries

With the mass adoption of cell phones and portable devices like tablets and what not. Lithum batteries have been the center of it all.

But as users become application and data hungry, so does their power consumption. Even Tesla's new cars will want to innovate and use more efficient and higher safety batteries.

What are the future tech of batteries ?

http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/130380-future-batteries-coming-soon-charge-in-seconds-last-months-and-power-over-the-air

Lithium-air breathing batteries
Bioo plant charger
Gold nanowire batteries
Magnesium batteries
Solid state lithium-ion
Fuel cell for phones and drones
Graphene car batteriesLaser-made microsupercapacitors
Sodium-ion batteries
Foam batteries
Solid-state batteries
Nano 'yolk' triple capacity and charge in six minutes
Alfa battery lasts 14 days and runs on water
Flexible battery 
Skin powerLumopack charges an iPhone 6's worth in 6-minutes
Foldable battery is paper-like but tough
uBeam over the air charging
Water dew powered batteries
StoreDot charges mobiles in 30 seconds
Transparent solar charger
Energous WattUpAluminium-air battery gives 1,100 mile drive on a charge
Urine powered batteries
Sound poweredTag Heuer Meridiist Infinite solar charged phone
Twenty times faster charge, Ryden dual carbon battery
Organic battery, 97 per cent cheaper to make
Sand battery gives three times more battery life
Sodium-ion batteries
Upp hydrogen fuel cell charger
NTU fast charging battery (yeah Singapore again!)

INTEL going ARM

INTEL going ARM

Intel has gone into the arms race for mobile CPU chips. They've gotten the rights from ARM to produce processors chips and may become a big supplier to all phone manufacturers who uses ARM's designs.

ARM was sold to Japan tech giant Softbank (also one of the top phone carriers in Japan) !  They even produce robots and build smart cars ;) Amazing how things change so rapidly. They are certainly well positioned for Internet-of-Things to come.

Will somebody come up with a new revolutionary design to rival Arm or x86 ? Guess not.

Star Trek Discovery

Yes... Star Trek Discovery - the series, is coming in 2017, and the story will be told like a novel rather than episodic style in the previous series.  The timeline is still unclear and the USS-1031 number may be a tell tail sign, but no one can be certain.

I am hopeful for a future story line rather than a prequel.  And I am hoping the story line goes on the Prime timeline instead of the reboot timeline of the movies.

Roulette Simulator

I was thinking of simulating strategies of Roulette using a spreadsheet, then I saw this

https://en.youroul.com/

You can use this simulator to test your better style 8) looks cool...

Daily Ramblings 3 August 2016

Another bad day at the Singapore Stock Exchange, with Oil (WTI CRUDE) being at $39.68 per barrel.

Oil related stocks took a downward movement when the market opened at 9am and by 9:10am, somewhat rebound back to a better price. Hopefully this would sustain and move up.

On the lighter side, China has demoed their Bus that allows cars to drive underneath it.

Read the news on https://www.engadget.com/2016/08/02/straddling-bus-china/


Today I want to highlight an open-source software for Windows called Launchy. It kinda reminds me of a Mac utility called Quicksilver.  It allows to the find files or applications quickly by using the keyboard.

Daily Ramblings

Today, the stock market isn't doing so well in Singapore, especially the oil related stocks. As of writing of this Blog article at 9:52am 2nd Aug 2016 GMT+8, DBS has fallen 11cts/0.72% to $15.52.  Another sucky trading day.

Meanwhile, Pokemon Go has achieve the 100 million downloads milestone. Wow! lots of monsters out there.

As for other money making opportunities out there, there is GetMyAds, FX United, Journey of Success, G-Token, B-coin just to name a few....

Currently, I'm thinking of the next working title eBook - suggestions welcome.

Gardens by the Bay has a annual pass offer that is priced at 40% discount. Highly recommended for Singaporeans to get their passes now.