Research poster

So, of course I've procrastinated on picking a topic for my research poster that is due tomorrow. But I found a great idea, which I think is pretty innovative and cool. Paper batteries! I found the idea earlier this week on reddit which is a regular news feed site that I visit, pretty much 3-4 times a day now. The idea is from a team of Stanford researchers. Turning ordinary paper into a battery! Wow, that could really revolutionize the world today. I mean, the cost of batteries, both making them and recycling them is a hassle. But with new paper batteries, hopefully it will change.
I found it especially interesting because on Monday, I didn't see anything like it. I didn't want to do a research poster on something that 5 other people had chosen to write about also. I noticed that on Monday, at least 6 people did their research poster on Google Wave. And trust me, I think Google Wave is cool and very useful and could turn the way meetings are run, but I don't think it was the best idea since 5 other people decided to do it also.
Overall, the research posters on Monday were very creative and well thought out. I especially liked the one about Cyborg Bugs, which were apparently the first ever fully cyborg animals. They would help out the military and be controlled from a remote control, or not. Either way, I thought his poster was nice and visually appeasing.  There was lots of information and he seemed very informed about the topic. I don't remember what his name was, but I applaud you Mr. Cyborg Bug researcher!

google

I've been thinking about the final research poster project and have found some ideas, but I'm not quite sure how they are applicable to class. There are a lot of new aspects to Google that are emerging, which interest me greatly, mostly because my life revolves around Google. Everything seems to be connected to google in some way these days, it's hard to imagine life without it.
It's weird to think that about 10 years ago, no one knew what google was. And the popular search engines were AOL, Yahoo, Ask, etc. But google has blossomed into a multibillion dollar company. Even, our own blogging site, Blogger.com is even connected with google.
Google has developed Google talk, which has been around for about a year, if I remember correctly, which is just another chat device, equipped with video capability, pretty awesome for starting out just as a search engine!