This Week In Emerging Technology – August 29th | eWEEK Labs

This Week In Emerging Technology – August 29th

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Jim Rapoza
Jim Rapoza
Aug 29, 2007
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Here are the emerging technology stories for the week of August 27th.

No Muni WiFi for Chicago – The dream of cities offering WiFi Internet service to citizens took another hit as Chicago just announced that they are stepping back from their own Muni WiFi plans.

Super Aerogels – Interesting little Wired post on the possibilities of aerogels, which have a wide variety of uses, especially in insulation.

Five Terabyte Optical Disks – An Israeli company is working on a new technology that delivers 5 terabytes of storage on a DVD sized disk.

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