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Bracelet
navigates Net
The proliferation of cell phones that have Internet access
is making it possible for people to find information about
the everyday objects around them, and the likely proliferation
of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags in consumer
products would make it easy to link physical objects with
digital information...
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Nanotube
bombs kill cancer
Scientists and medical professionals often use violent
imagery to depict techniques of destroying cancer cells.
A type of cancer-killing carbon nanotubes more than lives
up to the language...
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Mesh
networks best
There are many kinds of networks, both natural and artificial.
Here's just a sampling: connections among computers, social
relationships among people, and interactions among chemicals
used in the body...
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DNA
sensor shines brightly
One way to detect a type of DNA that indicates disease
is to form strands of DNA that contain fluorescent molecules
and can combine with the DNA to be detected. Combined,
or hybridized, DNA boosts the energy of the fluorescent
molecules, causing them to emit more light...
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Bits
and pieces
Super elastic rubber from insects, RFID tags for the blind,
and shape-shifting copper nanowires. |
FEATURES
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View
from the High Ground: USC's Michael Arbib
Computing matter, the action-perception
cycle, imagining tea with grandmother, passionate robots,
transferring brain settings, the Mirror System Hypothesis,
Hurricane Katrina, universal health care, and Goethe.
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How
It Works: Data storage technologies
There are many possibilities for next generation
data storage: very large, extraordinary and ballistic
magnetoresistance; MEMS; near-field optics; holograms
and molecular switches. |
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"If
we consider the fate of New Orleans with Hurricane
Katrina, we can certainly see challenges for technology
in terms of better design and maintenance of levees,
or in communication systems, but we also see the
fruits of pork-barrel politics, lack of planning
and coordination (technology can help, but one needs
bright dedicated people to make use of it), and
acceptance of a status quo in which too many people
live in poverty."
- Michael Arbib, University of Southern California |
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to Kevin from
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