Content of Ending Aging, Aubrey de Grey’s coming life extension book

You can now pre-order Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Biotechnologies That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime at Amazon written by Aubrey de Grey and Michael Rae which is the most detailed, although popular exposition of the SENS (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence) plan to defeat aging.

Aubrey was kind enough to mail me the content of the book, so you can find out which SENS point is fitted with the chapters of Part II (little help: Edmonton Aging Symposium: full video, audio and presentation access)

Aubrey’s first big move in science was a monograph on mitochondria called The Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory of Aging.

Recharging your laptop with broadcasting power through the air

That’s what the geeky population of the world is waiting for a long time: Powercast’s dime-size receiver embedded in any low voltage device can turn radio waves into DC voltage coming from a transmitter in a wall.

The soul of the product is John Shearer’s invention. “He figured much of the energy bouncing off walls could be captured. All you had to do was build a receiver that could act like a radio tuned to many frequencies at once. “I realized we wanted to grab that static and harness it,” Shearer says. “It’s all energy.”"

First line of wireless chargers: cell phones, lighting, peripherals like mouse and keyboard, handhelds by the end of 2008.

Within five years: laptops!!!! This could be the solution for the most frustrating laptop nightmare: the Battery problem.

Source: Business 2.0: Death of the cell phone charger

Now imagine a fully wireless laboratory realistically for the first time, when all the data and power are flowing through the air: Wi-Fi access points and charger hotspots cover all the useful lab area, so you can send your data right out of the microscope besides the cell culture hood while every power-heavy lab tool is constantly recharging.