Stick "microcapacitors" onto to your list of future technologies that might just change the world. Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley have announced a breakthrough in microcapacitor energy storage and power density (via SciTechDaily), smashing through earlier records.
In simple terms, there's a benefit in storing energy locally on-chip, which can save on power transfer between components. It just hasn't been practical before because the very smallest capacitors have previously stored so little energy.
