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If you're referring to the Wright Bros', their "airplane" didn't really fly - it was glide, albeit with a motor on the nose, but still, it never did achieve self-powered flight. It was "launched by over a half-dozen people running beside it to get it up to speed, etc. A lucky gust of wind gave it some additionall height, and then it resumed its normal 4 degree downward glide.

It's ok if you are not interested but there are some who are. Here is an article about some of the benefits. http://www.analogzone.com/nett0307.pdf as well as a wiki entry from http://www.voip-info.org./ http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Wideband+VoIP

http://www.analogzone.com/tmt_0912.pdf

It is both - the actual gyroscope is housed in a 7mm x 7mm x 3 mm package. To quote the page Analog Devices Introduces World's First Integrated Gyroscope
By integrating the sensor structure and all necessary signal conditioning circuitry onto a single integrated circuit, Analog Devices' iMEMS ADXRS gyro is smaller, more accurate, more reliable, and more economical than other angular rate sensors in its class. The ADXRS gyro is mounted inside a small 7 millimeters x 7 millimeters x 3 millimeters ball grid array (BGA) package, and consumes only 5 milliamps of current at 5 Volts.

And there's also a research paper published

And are a problem with the new lead free processes.. especially as lead spacing decreases, and the euro lead-free requirement kicks in.

Agere wrote a good article in Analog Zone, available at http://www.analogzone.com/grnt0216.pdf. It has a good micrograph showing the problem.

...the [300 MHz] Stretch even beats the Intrinsity FastMath processor running at 2 GHz

Of course, there is no such thing as a universal solution and the Stretch processor does have its limits. One significant area is in "low touch" operations such as network processors. While it can certainly do the relatively simple packet inspection and transformation that switch fabrics and network processors normally handle, it is really much better suited to the heavy-duty calculation- and manipulation-intensive tasks found in "high touch" applications such as video compression. For example, H.263/264 motion estimation is capable of producing very high-quality video from a relatively small bit stream, but requires lots (and lots) of raw processing horsepower. Happily, the Stretch processor is only too happy to oblige, churning out a SAD (sum-absolute difference) operation on a tile-full of pixels for H.263 video in 43 ns (H.264 takes 83 ns).

Some nice background on how holiday lighting came about and ways to reduce the kilowatts with LED's on analogzone.

Some nice background on how holiday lighting came about and ways to reduce the kilowatts with LED's on analogzone.