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There are still anti-fuse FPGAs in manufacture and in use today (one-time programmable burn-in devices)

My question: could programmable waveguides be done with MEMS technology? (mechanical features etched in silicon)

Don't you think any of those 1970s subs have seen modernization efforts?

Why don't we have bunk style bed racks for international flights? I'd gladly take a sedative, crawl into my cubby hole and wake up at my destination 6-12 hours later with no recollection of time loss. Of course, some sort of health screening would be necessary to ride Anesthesiologist Airlines.

Don't forget those trollopy Flibbertigibbets

Razer scooters were extremely dorky when I was younger (and still are). Why not shred with a skateboard, BMX bike, or even rollerblades?

These electric commuter things are pretty cool though from getting to point A-Point B efficiently. (Moreso than the electric skateboards cropping up)

Releasing a chip like that would be close to useless without also developing a user-friendly hobbyist API like the Raspberry PI and Arduino's already have.

Releasing the chip plus a nice users manual of all of its registers and assembly instructions might pose a security threat for device jail-breaks that they probably aren't interested in either.

Microsemi primarily deals with the aerospace industry and manufactures radiation-tolerant FPGAs; Their latest product line is a series of Flash-based reprogrammable devices (RTG4). Perhaps these alternative memory technologies lend to better data integrity.

I'd rather be exposed to generic advertising in the form of billboards, banners, and commercials, than head towards the dystopian future of The Minority Report in which you're constantly tracked, biometrics measured, and eyeballs scanned in order for advertisers to bombard you with personalized greetings and targeted ads that follow you relentlessly.

It's already too creepy that my smartphone has trained its autocorrect with words I've never texted before but can extrapolate from my digital footprint.

Hey there nice name!

Engineering degree; willingness to work in Defense (to cut your teeth)