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http://gizmodo.com/370698/colbert-first-vid-of-dean-kamens-miracle-water...

this video shows Dean Kamen's (Segway inventor) distilled water invention. Essentially, you can put into the machine any fluid (sea water, dirty water, urine etc) and it will distill this into plain drinkable water. Kamen has high hopes for his new invention which he says can help 1.2billion people in the world who live without clean water.

Dropbox looks like a great internet service. In a nutshell it provides users with a service that is able to synchronise files on one's hard drive with that on the internet. each user will have a virtual hard drive on the 'Net. And this virtual hard drive can be depicted as a drive on your own computer's drive space. Just watch the video on the site (http://www.getdropbox.com/), to see what i mean.

We often marvel how computing technology has progressed over the years. I remember about 20 years ago, most home computers did not have much storage space, and disk(ettes) had sufficient capacity for 720 kilobytes of data. Today now one spreadsheet file can easily be 720kb in size. Computers today are on the verge of becoming a personal appliance capable of providing its user with education, information, entertainment and inspiration at a click of the mouse (or touch of the screen / surface).

Wired online magazine did an article on the top 10 scientific breakthroughs of 2007 recently.

I came across a BBC article on the MSC, and felt the need to say my two sen worth.

Ten years ago, the Malaysian government launched one of the unfairly labelled mega projects called the Multimedia Super Corridor ("MSC").

The project was met with either awe or criticism. It was awe inspiring in the sense that it was so visionary for a country which was still pretty much trying to compete with its neighbours for manufacturing investment on the basis of cheap labour. It generated awe because the vision was simple and held a lot of truth: if Malaysia wanted to be competitive, it needed to focus on knowledge-based resources as opposed to low cost of doing business. Today, countries like China and India are attracting most of the investment by offerring precisely the low cost environment for businesses.