Coming soon Atomic clock accuracy on a chip.

[Jorlem]

perhaps we will get gps devices that don't nom batteries like no tomorrow now.

Might be better to just get rid of batteries entirely.

Any idea how that's been going?  That article is from 2006, and they were hoping to have some sort of results within a year, so it should be nearly done by now.
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