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Whatever you are buying this Holiday season, most likely it needs batteries. I know upon leaving the toy store last weekend I realized that I should invest in stock in Duracell at the rate I need to purchase batteries for various toys for my children. So imagine a battery that can run 10 times longer than the current batteries on the market now. MIT is doing just that and it looks like they are getting close with this new technology.

MIT researchers are in the process of putting a tiny gas-turbine engine inside a silicon chip about the size of a quarter through funding by the U.S. Army Research Lab. It's really pretty amazing all of the things they can fit into this tiny microchip to create such power, that I could hardly do it justice trying to explain it all. It just simply amazes me how when I first started using the computer and the internet (invented by Al Gore of course), how absolutely huge everything was. When I was working at the computer lab in college, the servers took up an entire room. Now we have microchips that blows previous technology away.

It will be interesting to see if MIT can get all the pieces to work for their microengine. To read the fascinating story, just click over to ScienceDaily. Be sure to come back and post your comments telling us what you think.