Badabinski

I was concerned about what happens when someone accidentally throws away a device with a fresh battery, but this:

The BV100 harnesses energy from the radioactive decay of its nickel-63 core. The two-micron thick core, sandwiched between two 10-micron thick diamond semiconductors

makes me feel a bit better. That really isn’t much radioactive material. Still, it’d be good to see some environmental impact studies done in some worst case scenarios.

Huh, sounds like a neat twist on the accelerator driven subcritical reactor. I’ve no idea what the viability will be, but it also seems like a nice way to generate useful isotopes for nuclear medicine and shit.

EDIT: ah, it’s actually a pretty old idea, it predates the accelerator reactor concept by quite a bit.

Possibly incorrect summary: Android is moving from a bazaar development style to a cathedral development style if I understand it correctly.