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Technology Review: May 2003

LEDs vs. the Lightbulb

With their longer lifetimes and higher efficiencies, light-emitting diodes will transform the illumination industry-and save billions in energy costs.

Mind-Machine Merger

Devices that connect the brain with computers could lead to mind-controlled robots, repair neurological disorders, and even improve memory.

Surveillance Nation-Part Two

In pursuit of security and service, we are submitting ourselves to a proliferation of monitoring technologies. But a loss of privacy is not inevitable.

Patents Go Global

A single global patent system could simplify the international patent process. Will the United States sign on?

The Printable Transistor

Bell Labs rethinks the transistor-as cheap, flexible, and organic.

Leading Edge

Should Patents Go Global?

From the Editor

Letters

Letters

Insights and opinions from our readers.

Prototype

Prototype

Straight from the lab: technology´s first draft.

Trailing Edge

Physiology´s Hidden Genius

A pioneering female researcher journeys from the factory to the laboratory.

Columns

Proof of Concept

Are today´s computer viruses tests of information warfare weapons?

Global Warning

Innovative processes, not just products, are targets for activists.

The Vision Thing

An inventor´s philanthropic mission is a lesson to companies that squander resources on patent lawsuits.

Point of Impact

Curbing Peer-to-Peer Piracy

Intellectual-property expert Pamela Samuelson on fighting file sharing.

Visualize

Smart Bandage

How a smart bandage works.

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