Every move you make could be stored on a PLR
9/7/2004 8:51 PM / USATODAY.com
SAN JOSE, Calif. --- Over the years, a number of tech prognosticators have said that someday many of us will own a device that might be called a personal life recorder, or PLR.
Maybe a PLR would look like a tie clip or a brooch. It would have a tiny microphone and camera lens and would record everything that happens to you all day long...
...he Pentagon has its eye on MRAM. Some of the research is funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Soldiers might be able to carry lightweight, low-power MRAM-based information devices into battle."The military is interested in radiation-hardened memory for missiles," Parkin says.
Hey, maybe MRAM is better than warheads. We could use an MRAM missile to deliver 100,000 pop songs deep into enemy territory. Once hooked, al-Qaeda probably won't try to bring down Western civilization if it means no new Fountains of Wayne music.
That possibility aside, MRAM doesn't seem as world-changing as, say, the invention of the World Wide Web...
