September10/17, 2003   


   Display brighter than film
Computer screens can't hold a candle to film where dynamic range is concerned, but that could change. A display with 10 times the brightness range of film and 300 times that of the average LCD promises to dramatically liven up medical images, video games and eventually even television.
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Sponges grow sturdy optical fiber
Primitive sea creatures from the murky depths are providing tips on how to improve one of the fundamental technologies of the information age -- optical fiber. Sea sponge spines act like fiber optics, but with some key advantages.

Electron teams make bigger qubits
Producing any kind of quantum computer is challenging enough -- and may yet prove impossible -- but being able to make quantum computers from electronic chips rather than cumbersome laboratory equipment has the added challenge of requiring control over individual electrons. A scheme that has a string of electrons acting as one could ease the task by expanding the target to a whopping 250 millionths of a millimeter.

Vision chip shines
Robot eyes that are comparable to biological eyes are a long way off, but chips that work like retinas are sprouting up in laboratories around the world. An artificial retina that gives what it receives -- light -- is ready to plug into superfast all-optical circuits.

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VR system grabs 3D video... Quantum computing has limits... Gold speck highlights molecules... Neural net tracks skin color... Nano thermometer withstands heat... Light drives electron logic.




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