Every now and then I come across something that makes me think nothing is impossible in life. Below are five of such things that I have come across lately:

• 3-D printers that ‘print’ (more like create) real life objects and the fact that they will soon be cheap enough to have in our homes. Business 2.0 describes Bill Gross’ “Desktop Factory” as:

“a device that takes a drawing from a graphics program and, rather than producing a piece of paper, outputs a physical object. It actually grows an object out of plastic. This is unbelievable. You can go from concept visualization to having a physical part in your hand in an hour.”

An article on FOX News adds that: “… prices for 3-D printing machines have been falling rapidly, reaching $20,000, and the day is foreseeable when they will fall below $1,000 and become home appliances, says Phil Anderson of the School of Theoretical and Applied Science at Ramapo College in New Jersey.”

• Software that writes itself, which according to Business 2.0 is being piloted under the brand name Intentional, by Charles Simonyi - an ex-Microsoft top tech guy. It remains to be seen whether this will take off but I wouldn’t bet against this chap, who is said to be one of the main brains behind Microsoft’s Office suite.
• Mobile Complete runs a remote facility of hundreds of mobile phones that enables mobile phone application developers to test their apps on a variety of handset models. As I understand it, the developers can then access these handsets remotely such that every key-press on their keyboard is registered on the handsets. I guess this may not seem all that incredible if you know the relevant technologies well, but I find it mighty impressive. This brief POD Tech video explains it well.
• This short video compilation on Muhammad Ali. What can I add - the man’s the greatest.
• Paul Potts singing opera on the Britain’s Got Talent show. Just check out the judges faces as Paul gets going.