Carbon Nanotube Muscles Strong as Diamond, Flexible as Rubber

Cool stuff from wired http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/03/nanomuscle/

My current favorite authors

Charles Stross
Richard K Morgan
Peter F Hamilton
Walter Jon Williams
Joe Abercrombie

Eternal energy source for cars - Thorium based

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/technology-blog/tiny-block-thorium-could-power-car-forever-203442766.html