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Technology Review: February 2004

10 Emerging Technologies That Will Change Your World

Technology Review unveils its annual selection of hot new technologies about to affect our lives in revolutionary ways-and profiles the innovators behind them.

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.

Leading Edge

Thinking about Thinking

From the editor in chief

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.

Demo

Demo: Seamless Surveillance

Sarnoff shows how to turn the feeds from many surveillance cameras into a unified 3-D scene.

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.

Visualize

High-Definition Television

The 1s and 0s of high-definition television, standard in U.S. home theaters by 2006.

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