Technology Review: July/August 2004
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Solar-Cell Rollout
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Breakthroughs in nanotech are making it possible to churn out cheap, flexible solar cells by the meter. Soon your cell phone may be powered by the sun.
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Letters
- Letters
- Insights and opinions from our readers
Trailing Edge
- Radio Flyer
- Reginald Denny made movies with Alfred Hitchcock and Abbott and Costello-and he built the U.S. Army´s first robot plane.
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Features
- A Remote Control For Your Life
- Japanese mobile-phone giant NTT DoCoMo is replacing house keys, credit cards, and train passes with a phone that does it all.
- The World´s Tallest Building (for Now)
- A look at some of the building technologies that are enabling new skyscrapers to shatter height records.
- Computing Gets Physical
- Gadgets that let you control computers with a wave or a nod could offer an escape from keyboards and mice.
- Spotting Cancer Sooner
- Blood tests that detect cancer in its early stages would save countless lives. The first could arrive within a year.
Demo
- Demo: Wearable Robots
- Robotics inventor Stephen Jacobsen demonstrates an exoskeleton that provides superhuman strength.
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Columns
- 99 Percent
- Meet a creator of high-tech, electrically active fabrics who shows plenty of scrap.
- The Tablet PC Nonrevolution
- Tablet PCs are convenient and cleverly designed, but there´s no need to trash your old laptop just yet.
- Prepared Minds Favor Chance
- As data gets cheaper to collect, smart innovators will manufacture their own serendipity.
Point of Impact
- Tracking Privacy
- Procter and Gamble´s Sandra R. Hughes on whether radio identification tags are a threat to privacy.
Launch Pad
- Worm Guards
- Determina's software provides maintenance-free protection against computer worms.
Visualize
- Digital Image Sensor
- How the latest digital-camera sensors create sharper color photographs.
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