How would the blast seperate the antimatter from the matter when the antimatter is *surrounded* by matter? Antimatter that is merely exposed to air will prompty annihilate; the blast can only push the antimatter into more air. If the antimatter is magnetically suspended in a hard vacuum and the magnetic confinement fails, the antimatter prompty annihilates against the container walls, and if any surviving antimatter is thrown by the blast it gets thrown into the other parts of the container.
I really doubt making antimatter go boom will present a problem.
I have a Touchstream LP keyboard http://fingerworks.com/lp_product.html . Its essentially a big touchpad with labels for all the keys and gestures that work like hotkeys. The interesting thing about it from a techy point of view is that all the magic is done in firmware right on the keyboard. No drivers needed, so its very OS independant; even the firmware update utility is written in Java to maximize portability. It might jack the cost up a bit, but I'd like to see more peripherals with firmware-based functionality.
The Pixelito http://pixelito.reference.be/ is a far lighter RC helicopter. It weighs in at only 6.9 grams *with* battery. Check out the page for as size comparison with a hamster.
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How would the blast seperate the antimatter from the matter when the antimatter is *surrounded* by matter? Antimatter that is merely exposed to air will prompty annihilate; the blast can only push the antimatter into more air. If the antimatter is magnetically suspended in a hard vacuum and the magnetic confinement fails, the antimatter prompty annihilates against the container walls, and if any surviving antimatter is thrown by the blast it gets thrown into the other parts of the container.
I really doubt making antimatter go boom will present a problem.
I have a Touchstream LP keyboard http://fingerworks.com/lp_product.html . Its essentially a big touchpad with labels for all the keys and gestures that work like hotkeys. The interesting thing about it from a techy point of view is that all the magic is done in firmware right on the keyboard. No drivers needed, so its very OS independant; even the firmware update utility is written in Java to maximize portability. It might jack the cost up a bit, but I'd like to see more peripherals with firmware-based functionality.
The Pixelito http://pixelito.reference.be/ is a far lighter RC helicopter. It weighs in at only 6.9 grams *with* battery. Check out the page for as size comparison with a hamster.