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Technology Review: December 2002/January 2003

Immobots Take Control

From photocopiers to space probes, machines injected with robotic self-awareness are reliable problem solvers.

Prescription RNA

RNA-based drugs offer hope for treating cancer, AIDS, and other diseases.

How You´ll Pay

Which of the competing electronic-payment devices will we choose?

R&D Scorecard 2002

Research that breaks the mold.

R&D 2002: Quantum Computing

Microsoft Research’s theoretical mathematics program breaks into a strategy to make quantum computing work.

R&D 2002: Electricity-Producing Vehicles

General Motors’ Hydronomy program research links fuel cell cars to the electric grid by 2010.

R&D 2002: Advanced Brain Imaging

Hitachi Advanced Research Labs’ brain science applications program research improves education through brain imaging.

R&D 2002: Nano Ceramics

General Electric’s nanotechnology program’s research toughens ceramics based on the microstructure of seashells.

Noise Therapy

Boston University´s James Collins uses background noise to steady the step of the elderly.

Leading Edge

Innovating to Recovery

From the editor.

Letters

Feedback

Insights and opinions from our readers.

Prototype

Prototype

Straight from the lab: technology´s first draft.

Trailing Edge

The Whole Picture

Holography´s microscopic origins.

Columns

Think Outside the Mailbox

Torrents of e-mail have turned us all into file clerks. Isn´t there a better way?

Ease of Learning

An innovation isn´t any good if it´s a bad teacher.

A Dose of Common Sense

Each country´s patent and copyright laws should serve the greater good.

Upstream

Electroactive Polymers

Artificial muscles made of electroactive polymers impart lifelike movements to biomedical and robotic devices.

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