Technology Review: February 2004
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Letters
- Letters
- Insights and opinions from our readers
Trailing Edge
- Walk the Talk
- Al Gross's 1938 invention of the walkie-talkie launched mobile communications.
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Features
- Gadgets in the Superchip Age
- Novel chip designs and manufacturing techniques keep the 40-year computing explosion going strong. What consumer devices will they enable?
- Can Pfizer Deliver?
- Despite skyrocketing R&D spending, pharmaceutical companies' drug output has slowed dramatically. Pfizer is counting on creative new technologies to keep the pipeline full.
- Ten Technologies That Refuse to Die
- From typewriters to vacuum tubes, these 10 technologies aren´t as obsolete as you might think.
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Columns
- The Robots Are Here
- Robots today are where computers were in 1978; soon, they´ll be as pervasive as the Web.
- Deciphering Cars
- Consumers have a right to know the diagnoses made by their cars´ onboard computers.
- VIPs: Virally Interactive Pixels
- Millions of Japanese schoolgirls can´t be wrong: there´s always a market for instant gratification.
Point of Impact
- Valid Voting?
- Stanford University computer scientist David L. Dill on the security of electronic voting.
Launch Pad
- Cooling Off Computers
- Cooligy´s micromachined system chills chips, paving the way for faster, more powerful computers.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology