Story Behind this Chip Concept

Captain's Log:

I think this is so cool. Well, the story behind this chip concept comes from when I was stationed in Alaska. A General Officer told us that the Army would someday have to prepare for protecting resources (water supplies, oil, etc). What fascinated me was that he mentioned a satellite that could be observed in the Alaska sky. The General explained that it was so powerful that it could read the seat number in the local theater. He also talked about a chip that could tell if a soldier was dehydrated or overstressed.

Any way... to me imagination is like brainstorming….new ideas come from critical thoughts, that may seem silly, but when men get together amazing things can happen.

I was trained in Ground Radio Communications and Weapons Systems in the US Air Force and have a pretty good understanding of modern technology and its limitations as it relates to electronic technology. Yet, what fascinates me so much is the history of electronics. In the 1940's, the invention of the transistor revolutionized mankind...it bridge the gap for allot of ideas that could not be manifested, but imagined.

Dr. John Bardeen, Dr. Walter Brattain, and Dr. William Shockley discovered the Transistor effect and developed the first device at Bell Laboratories. They were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 1956.

Without these minds brainstorming, and merging ideas…think about it… would we have personal computers today?