Technology Review: March 2004
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Letters
- Letters
- Insights and opinions from our readers
Trailing Edge
- The Birth of Cool
- Willis Carrier, who invented modern air conditioning more than 100 years ago, is the father of cool.
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Features
- Nanotech´s First Blockbusters?
- Nanosys hopes to become the first successful nanotechnology company by blitzing the market with supercheap solar cells, faster and lighter computer displays, and supersmall lasers and sensors.
- Translation in the Age of Terror
- A new U.S. government center will connect linguists on the front lines of the war against terror with translation assistance technologies that can digitize, parse, and digest raw intelligence material.
- The Virtual Heart
- A global research team is creating a computer model that depicts the heart from a single cell up to the whole organ, heralding new approaches to diagnosing and treating cardiac disease.
Demo
- Demo: Hollywood´s Master of Light
- USC´s Paul Debevec shows how to use light from the real world-and algorithms from the digital one-to render an actor´s face as it would appear under any conditions.
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Columns
- Mind the Gap
- A U.K. Internet startup is monetizing the economic influence of kids.
- Dial N for Net Phone
- An online phone service shows that Internet telephony´s time may finally have come.
- Disruptive Incrementalism
- Sometimes a cosmetic change can be the innovation that makes a product catch fire.
Point of Impact
- Domain Master
- The Internet´s head administrator, Paul Twomey, on controlling the core functionality of the Web.
Launch Pad
- Smarter Drugs
- Polymerix promises a better way to get drugs to where they´re needed in the body.
Visualize
- RFID
- How radio frequency identification tags will help retailers, from supply chains to store shelves.
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