Fly wheels are used to store energy in kinetic form. While braking a car for example part of the energy is absorbed by spinning up the flywheel. The energy is pulled out again when needed using an alternator to produce electric power.

Fast Company | The Strategy of the Fighter Pilot

Nice intro to Boyd applied to business conflict.

Read about John Boyd, a (now deceased) fighter pilot, whose theories on conflict have proponents in high places (Colin Powell for one). Boyd was a real thinker...a philosopher...who drew his ideas from the natural world, Sun Tzu, Napoleon, and anywhere else he could. He actually applied his philosophy to the real world, and had a standing challenge that he could beat any other pilot in a dogfight in less than 30 seconds. He never lost.

Currently under development are spray-on video screens. You spray the screen on any surface and can change the colors by the application of electrical currents. Also under development are bendable video screens. Think the military doesn't already have chameleon camo?

Read in Discover magazine that all cell phones are required to be able to report their GPS coordinates, ostensibly for safety purposes, by the year 2005. That means tiny GPS transmitters will be ubiquitous. How else might we use that?

Read in Fast Company about inexpensive and miniscule metallic "tags" that carry information and can be scanned from a distance by radio receivers. Many companies are already using them for inventory management. How else might we use that?

Remember; dream, design, test, tweak, and try.

I'm reading To Conquer the Air, by Tobin, about the Wright brothers.

They succeeded where others did not because they dreamed, designed, tested, tweaked, and tried, while others only dreamed, designed, and tried...or just dreamed. The Wrights were big on scientific testing. Although, neither Orville nor Wilbur graduated from college, and although they were bicycle repairmen and no more qualified to build flying machines than am I, they surpassed the greatest experts of the day. How? They used meticulous and systematic trial and error, stick-to-it-ivness, and creative design insights. All of these techniques are available to almost anyone.