Link Collection

Zurich engineers have created autonomous robots that randomly dock with each other on the ground and then rise into the air with no human direction needed. An airborne robotic army could attack in formation, then blow apart under attack and reassemble themselves on the ground undamaged, ready to take off and attack again...this kind of reminds me of some movies I've seen, and things don't work out too well for people in those movies:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/06/video-drone-swarm-assembles-itself-kisses-humanity-goodbye/

Solar cells need to be thin enough to extract current but thick enough to collect a sufficient amount of light. Boston College physicists might have found a way to resolve this problem with a nanoscale architecture based on the coaxial cable:
http://www.bc.edu/offices/pubaf/news/nanoscale_coax2010_0607.html

Microscopic polymer fibers are being developed to help rebuild human tissue and speed the healing process--the hope is that in 10 years a tendon, spinal cord or heart valve will be able to regenerate itself after an injury or disease:
http://www.queensu.ca/news/articles/helping-hearts-spinal-cords-and-tendons-heal-themselves

Apple has applied for a patent for a *solar-powered iPhone*. This would solve the battery life problem for smartphones and force everyone else to scramble to catch up with them!
http://news.discovery.com/tech/solar-powered-iphones-around-the-corner.html

http://inhabitat.com/2010/06/03/apple-patents-solar-powered-iphone/

Parts shortages have made it difficult for wireless equipment makers to keep up with demand--this has hindered AT&T's efforts to upgrade their wireless network and has prevented HTC from selling more Droid Incredibles on Verizon:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/parts-shortages-hinder-ts-network-upgrade/2010-06-08

Nice summary of the iPhone 4 presentation yesterday by Steve Jobs. It must have been awkward when his iPhone 4 could not connect to the web and someone yelled out "Try Verizon!", but Jobs solved the problem by telling the people in the audience to stop using WiFi so that his iPhone could rely on WiFi:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/apple-unveils-iphone-4-adds-video-calling-feature/2010-06-07

This analyst praised Apple and discussed the iPhone's momentum. He notes that Apple avoided AT&T's data limits by making video calling only work over WiFi:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/apples-iphone-juggernaut-picks-speed/2010-06-07

Application developers are worried that AT&T's data caps will hinder apps usage:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/technology/07data.html?partner=rss&emc=rss