[NonValueAdded]

“...not at all like such clean, crisp, honest, American names as Cathcart, Peckem and Dreedle.”

[wbill]

Good stuff.

When you get right down to it, a computer is just an incredibly inefficient space heater. Takes a wad of electricity, turns a little bitty bit of it into 1's and 0's, and the rest into heat.

This would get rid of the heat.

I can't keep my data center cold enough. When Can I have some of this?

[50sDad]

The new substance was pioneered at a facility in Roswell, New Mexico...

[Petronski]

Well, that’s it.

Now comes Skynet, its hour come round at last,
Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born.

[topher]

bump

[MNDude]

Me not undrstand

[Captain Beyond]

bump for later read

[Condor51]

New Exotic Material Could Revolutionize Electronics
Physicists Yulin Chen, Zhi-Xun Shen and their colleagues tested the behavior of electrons in the compound bismuth telluride.

Hold on there sparky. Bismuth though *safer* than Lead or Mercury still presents some issues the green freaks may go whacko over as its 'slightly' RADIOACTIVE

It is generally considered to be the last naturally occurring stable, non-radioactive element on the periodic table, although it is actually slightly radioactive, with an extremely long half-life.

So Bismuth could become the next 'plastic bag' (cough) problem.

After 20 years of using Bismuth shotgun shells for hunting the birds may start glowing in the dark.

[fso301]

Sounds tantalizingly like a room temperature skin effect superconductive material.

[decimon]

More spintronics stuff.

"Spintronics is a process using electron spin to synthesize new devices for memory and data processing. "

Scientists Discover Magnetic Superatoms

A team of Virginia Commonwealth University scientists has discovered a ‘magnetic superatom’ – a stable cluster of atoms that can mimic different elements of the periodic table – that one day may be used to create molecular electronic devices for the next generation of faster computers with larger memory storage.

More here.

[SunkenCiv]

bismuth telluride

Thanks decimon.