http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080222/sc_livescience/proteinscouldbeefupcomputermemory
It scares me…I don’t want a computer with bacteria protein.
Old news. USS Voyager was using bioneural gel packs years ago. This is just another case of science catching up to Star Trek years later.
djm
Make mine rare, please, with a side of fungus. 
Possibly lots of data storage could be saved in this egg. Of course you’d have to contain it (single egg carton?) and possible refrigerate it (unless used almost immediately). Photo from Mothra VS Godzilla 1964.
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this is some cheap attempt to save the infamous one egg omelette 
I wish they would expend less effort on copying Star Trek technology and more effort copying the Star Trek lifestyle. By that I mean from TNG where they say people pursue careers to expand knowledge and help humanity rather than pursue the Ferengie lifestyle.
But the Ferengie are modelled on us. Isn’t it therefore incumbent upon us to pursue that lifestyle?
djm
Obvoiously someone here is a T.I.N.O. (Trekkie in Name Only)… 
You’ve got to remember what you’re requesting here, if you want them to pursue that kind of world…it took a third world war and the irradication of the majority of Earth’s people to come to the point where humanity was humbled enough to receive the knowlege that became the impetus to overcome the petty squables that enveloped the globe and work toward a better and common good.
While this isn’t exactly new news, it certainly is still facinating, especially to those of us into computer technology.
There was, IIRC, a project that took a series of human neurons that were created from stem cells and used as a storage device. This was, of course, before our scientists were disallowed this sort of pursuit.
There was another, and highly succesful, project relating to biological information storage that was done a few years ago that used fat proteins to store information. They were, again IIRC, able to store several terabytes of information in a relatively small ammount of space.
Since biological forms of storage are essentially “solid-state” memory, they react several magnitudes of order faster than current hard drives. From sources I’ve read, biological memory reacts much faster than even our current solid-state memory technology.
Just a note on the Bill Gates link…
Whenever Bill Gates opens his mouth, have a salt shaker on standby and be prepared to take a few grains with what he says. I admire the man greatly for his philanthropic views and acts, however, he has been, contrary to common belief, so far removed from the actual design and implementation of any kind of software or hardware that Micro$oft has been responsible for over the past years that I really doubt that he has his finger on the pulse of technology and where it’s headed.
Even if the touchscreen replaces the “keyboard” as we know it, it will still have to be a “keyboard” of some manner in order to facilitate manual interface. This is most especially true when we consider the progress that’s been made in speech recognition software over the past five years (as Gates claims most internet searches will be facilitated by speech recognition); speech recognition technology has been, IIRC, one of the slower areas to develop. What we have in the way of speech recognition is primarily used for dictation or the execution of small commands. While you might be able to do a basic google search and other minor interfaces with most speech recognition software, but from what I understand, most commercially available speech recognition suites are highly expensive and must be tailored in some fashion to recognise a particular speaker’s vocal patterns and nuances.
The days of being able to say “Computer, run diagnositc on the phase inducers and reverse the polarity on the warp flux capacitors,” (i.e., complete vocal application interface) is still several years off.
I’d have agreed with this 5 years ago, but I think Gates is so far removed
from his company’s developments that he’s just become a mouthpiece for
R&D. So, it’s possible that what he says is the reality as his R&D managers
are seeing in the field.
Recognition of simple commands despite differences in the user’s voice
pattern is the first big hurdle. I think cell phones have been doing a relatively
good job of this in the past few years. Ford has put out a voice-recognition
radio/cellphone interface. We seem to be well on the way to full voice-
command tech, actually.
it’s in the Focus, fer cryin out loud, how good could it be!!?? 
I tell ya what, I have aspeech recognitionpackage for my Treo, and I hate it, truth be told… I have to go through and literally program every single function that I want it to do to a prerecorded vocal cue. It takes longer to get it to recognize what I’m trying to tell it to do than it does to just whip the damn thing out and push the fraking buttons 
Yeah, I know, the description says it doesn’t require training, that’s a load of manure…it’s fecking worthless
Thank goodness it was a gift… 
As far as Gates is concerned, he talkes out of his arse more often than Steve J0bs.
And I distinctly remember him saying something akin to a certain operating system (may or may not start with a V ) revolutionizing the world of operating systems during 4th Q 2006…
Remember that bit from Ace Ventura? “Assholiomeeeooooo!! OOOh, SOOODAMMIAAAA!!”
getting back to the OP a bit…
I forgot to post what excited me the most about this type of thing…
hardware-to-wetware interface!
As in, direct human interface with computers!! 
Wow, that sux. I have a Motorolla RAZR, and when I push the button and
say “Call home!” it bloody well calls home. 'Cause it knows who’s the boss!
(My wife. My wife’s the boss. And the phone knows that if I don’t call home,
she won’t let me in the house to plug the recharger in.)
That’s because the motorolla’s software, despite being proprietary, is created with a program that functions on damn near anything (Symbian, created with Java, unless I’m mistaken…) instead of being a hopped out, dumbed down OS that’s more patched up than a bicycle tire tube
For some laughs…
The Top 5 Reasons People Hate Bill Gates
To heck with speech rec, apparantly it won’t be long
till we strart controlling them with our mind alone…
Macross Plus, here we come!
http://www.geekologie.com/2008/02/im_thinking_this_could_get_sca.php
given the minds of some of the computer users…
I find that very scary!