Conductive fibers, yo, they’re the future . Japan’s AIST is back with yet another quirky idea , this time integrating capacitive touch sensors into 1-micron thick nylon fibers. The results is a big old cloth that can sense your loving touch and inform nearby computers of what you’re up to.

Remember Gaikai , the cloud computing service that lets you demo video games in your browser window without downloading a thing? It’s live, meaning it’s no longer just us tech journalists that get to give it a thorough try. Provided you have a blazing fast internet connection and both Flash and Java installed, four streaming game demos are a just a click (and possibly a survey, or a short wait) away, including three EA titles ( Mass Effect 2 , Dead Space 2 , The Sims 3 ) and Second Life . As we discovered in our initial hands-on , it’s not a flawless experience even with a fantastic internet connection, but it’s not meant to be — the entire point is to allow you to adequately sample a game right before making a purchase decision.

The International Solid-State Circuits Conference, in San Francisco, that concluded yesterday has been an eye opener. Technology is progressing at a rapid pace and paints a dreamy picture for the future. A team led by professors of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, presented a paper that proves the Moore’s and Bell’s of the world right by creating the smallest complete millimeter-scale computing system. The intended application for this system is currently to monitor the eye pressure of glaucoma patients by embedding this chip within the eye.

Remember the Warhammer 40K and all the fun you had with it before the likes of Call of Duty and Assassin’s Creed came along? Well, here is a modder who has been inspired enough by the game to create the 40K Warhammer case. This one is integrated with the symbolic skull on top and all. The cool look, flickering lights and the final design were conceived keeping the “next millennium” theme of the game in mind.

The official TouchPad launch date isn’t even a date per se, but a season: summer . So we’re surprised to see DigiTimes reporting that HP will take delivery of shipments in March with the TouchPad going on sale in April with plans to ship 4 – 5 million units from the TouchPad ” series ” in 2011.