Technology Review: May 2001
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5 Patents to Watch
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A handful of hot new patents that may change the way business and technology get done.
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Features
- The TR Patent Scorecard 2001
- Whose patent portfolio is most potent? We rank 150 of the world´s top companies according to the quality and quantity of their patents.
- The Next Generation of Optical Fibers
- Novel "photonic-band-gap materials" promise to light up the pipes of the telecom network. Their breakthrough? They carry signals through air rather than glass.
- Laying Down the Law
- The semiconductor pioneer and cofounder of Intel discusses his law, aliens, the environment and his new foundation to fund far-out research.
- Power to the People
- Declare independence from the electrical grid! Microturbines and fuel cells can generate premium juice 24/7.
- The Programmable Pill
- Drugs of the near future will be microdevices that search out and destroy germs without the side effects of conventional therapies.
- Battle for the Unseen Computer
- Over 99 percent of computers are inconspicuous: embedded in objects from toys to cars. Open-source software dukes it out with proprietary offerings to provide their operating system.
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Columns
- Dot What?
- Seven new Internet domain names now offer more cyber real estate. But is anyone buying?
- Playing By Heart
- We should cherish leisure technologies (think piano, not PlayStation) that are hard to learn.
- TV Tomorrow
- Designers of interactive television seem to inhabit a different reality than the people who care about TV.
- PB&J Patent Punch-up
- Someone´s managed to patent a crustless PB&J, and it ain´t Mom.
Upstream
- Protein Chips
- Postage-stamp-sized chips analyze thousands of protein samples fast and cheap.
Reviews
- War´s Coming Digital Fog
- Michael Schrage reviews Lifting the Fog of War by Bill Owens and Friendly Fire by Scott A. Snook.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology