Yes, I thought I would throw in a Pokemon reference just for fun, but today's post is actually really, really, awesome - it has even more potential that any of my other posts, even Super WiFi! Yes you are probably wondering how anything can be cooler than Super WiFi, I mean come on, it's called Super WiFi! Anyway, two Russian scientists recently won the Nobel Peace Prize in Physics for their discovery of a new substance called Graphene. Graphene, it turns out has replaced diamond as the strongest material known to man, it is extremely conductive, it is transparent, it can dissipate heat easily, and it is the thinnest material in the world!! Basically it does everything - Graphene has huge potential! In terms of technology it has 2 clear uses, the first is in computer chips - remember Moor's Law? (the Intel chip maker that said that computer speeds would increase exponentially, until we couldn't add anymore transistors because anymore transistors after a certain point would create too much heat causing the chips to be less efficient) Well Graphene solves that problem; there is no road block in computer speeds, Graphene is amazingly conductive, thin, and it can dissipate heat meaning that if we made transistors out of Graphene, we could see computer speeds growing to insane proportions! Secondly, since Graphene is transparent, we could add it to plastics to make them strong and use this on phones and such. Before you call all your friends and tell them how awesome this blog is and about Graphene, there are some problems - Graphene can't be made en masse yet, so until it can, all of its uses are useless...
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