"to the asychronous deployment of ipv6"
200mpg microturbine supercar
now, the odds of this particular thing seeing the light of day are extremely slim, just on the scale of business development and engineering costs. however the idea is very much real.

most cars work by a piston combustion motor driving the wheels. the hybrids we know today are parallel hybrids, electric and gas motors working in tandem to provide power to the wheels.

turbines are a slightly different rotary combustion engine configuration (the attempted Chrysler Turbine Car had a 45700 rpm redline, just to point out) that can give significantly better thermal efficiencies than a piston engine, however they're basically unusable for driving wheels, as said turbine car illustrates. but by going to a series hybrid drivetrain, where the microturbine does not power the wheels, the turbine simply acts as an electrical generator for the car, and electrical motive propulsion engines provide power to the wheels, a car could potentially achieve extremely high energy efficiency (electrical motors can get close/unto 100% effiency, microturbines are far more efficient than pistons). 200mpg is quite feasible.

note that the turbine would be running at a more or less constant speed, acting to slowly charge an intermediary power store (batteries/caps) that can be depleted on demand by the engine. even 500 HP cars rarely use all 500 HP, and by decoupling the fuel burning from power consmption, we can very closely optimize the fuel burning characteristics for specific speeds. thats where quite a significant chunk of the fuel savings come into play.

thus far, uses of full series power technologies have been limited to mostly massive engines and trains, due to size constraints. however our manufacturing prowess and metallurgy has increased greatly across the past two decades. aside from a current lack of demand, theres nothing stopping us from building very small (say, 40HP) microturbines that could very easily power some fantastic future cars. just dont expect any Lemans 24H for the time being. there's only supercar performance until you flatten your battery, at which point your driving like gramma until you have some power reserves to burn through again.

ipv6
names and addresses have been a limited resource on the internet for a long time now. scarcity has permitted service providers to give each home a single "internet address" to share, but even with controlled and reduced consumption, we are slowly running out of addresses on the net. the solution is, and always has been, IPv6. deployment has been awful, no one uses ipv6, not even the geeks. (there are not enough people participating to start the network externality snowball.) the internet engineering taskforce's eternal toast is "to the asychronous deployment of IPv6," meaning in non tech speak, at least someone somewhere is hypothetically using this superior future we've built, even if it will take everyone else forever to start using it.

i think part of the reason internet providers are leary of starting IPv6 is because it includes IP Multicast, the ability to send data to multiple people at once. the current structure of the internet is that the amount of data you give is equal to the data you send, multicast is simply the ability to broadcast a single stream of data to as many parties as needed. there is a very lucrative market out there for providing connectivity for massive video archives and sound banks and anything multimedia, and although i realize this is overly reductionist, a part of me earnestly believes the internet service providers's will go to great lengths to insure such broadcasting to the world powers are only in the hands of those serious enough to fit the monthly bill that currently comes with it. it would be anarchy if we could all talk amongst ourselves as we like, no?

top 21 wearable technologies
i just love this stuff. i'm much more partial to the early entries on the list, augmentation suits are too specialized a use case for me to give a rat, and the twelve to seven count havent released anything. the one human augmentation device i AM in favor of is blood intercooling, and from all appearances it looks like a distinctly low tech / non-technical solution.

in particular, i've been looking for a good cyberglove for a long time. twiddler2 (fucking ghetto piece of shit) is as high bandwidth (high bandwidth==as much data as possible) as portable input devices get these days, and its a rectangle strapped to your hand with some buttons on it.