Technology Review: May 2003
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LEDs vs. the Lightbulb
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With their longer lifetimes and higher efficiencies, light-emitting diodes will transform the illumination industry-and save billions in energy costs.
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Letters
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Prototype
- Prototype
- Straight from the lab: technology´s first draft.
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Features
- 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.
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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.
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