Interesting Links

Virtual Goods: the next big business model
“People spend over $1.5 billion on virtual items every year. Pets, coins, avatars, and bling: these virtual objects are nothing more than a series of digital 1s and 0s stored on a remote database somewhere in the ether.”

New Record for Quantum Cryptography…
“European scientists have broken a distance record for sending quantum information from one place to another, paving the way for a system that relies on the laws of physics to provide communications that can’t be tapped. If they can extend the reach of their signal a little further, they’ll be able to use satellites to send perfectly secure data around the world.”

A Wirelessly Powered Lightbulb
“Researchers at MIT have created a revolutionary device that could remotely charge batteries and power household appliances.”

Rise of the Prosumer
“Mark this word in your mental diaries: Prosumer.The word is a combination of producer and consumer that perfectly describe the millions of participants in the Web 2.0 revolution.”