Word: microprocessor
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...model, built in 1962, looked like a flying saucer and never got off the ground. The current iteration, the M400, is painted hot-rod red and shaped like a miniature fighter plane. It is powered by eight 150-horsepower methanol-burning rotary engines, has a state-of-the-art, microprocessor-controlled steering system for increased stability and can reach top speeds of 350 m.p.h.--at least in theory. While no one outside the company has ever seen the Skycar fly, Moller claims it hovered about 10 ft. above the ground for a few seconds in a test flight last month...
...reality they might be a continent or two away. "You can be immersed anywhere in the world and feel like a participant," says Max Nikias, the center's director. Within a decade or so, he predicts, 3-D "immersive" environments will be as big a breakthrough as the microprocessor, PC or Web browser once were...
...curls into a cylinder like a tube of chicken wire. About 100 times as strong as steel and 50,000 times as thin as a human hair, they can serve as the structure of a nanobot. Acting as semiconductors, nanotubes are also ideal for building a nanobot's tiny microprocessor brain...
Completely changing the face of Intel, Grove set his assembly line to produce microprocessors instead of simple memory chips. Intel soon came out with the 386 microprocessor, which became an instant hit. And by the mid-80s, the personal computer, or PC, was becoming mainstream. In 1981 IBM made the little-publicized decision to use Intel chips in its PCs. Now, as the computer age exploded, Intel began to take off--and the rest was history...
...Linux operating system to power a new generation of Internet appliances. The strategy is part of "AOL Anywhere," and the deliciously timed announcement - don't think AOL boss Steve Case doesn't know this is Break It Up Week for Judge Jackson - was a pointed message that as the microprocessor moves off the desktop and invades the rest of the house, AOL and friends intend to do it without use of the Wintel alliance. (TIME.com is owned by Time Warner, which has agreed to be bought...