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Technology Review: July/August 2004

Solar-Cell Rollout

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.

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.

Leading Edge

The Other IPO

From the editor

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.

Demo

Demo: Wearable Robots

Robotics inventor Stephen Jacobsen demonstrates an exoskeleton that provides superhuman strength.

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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