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Technology Review: September 2002

Digital Cinema, Take 2

Film offers the best color and clarity, but in Hollywood´s effects houses, computers rule. Moviemakers must expertly blend both media.

Nanotech by the Numbers

It´s virtual reality, writ small: atom-by-atom simulations of new materials could usher in the nanotech future sooner than anybody imagined.

The Flight that Tamed the Skies

Glenn Curtiss´s aeronautical innovations outlasted the Wright brothers´. But his biggest contribution to aviation was an Albany-Manhattan flight many deemed suicidal.

The Technology of Megaterror

A veteran presidential science advisor examines bioterrorism, dirty bombs and smuggled nukes—and details how to stop them.

Ultrawideband Squeezes In

A newly approved radio technology promises wireless home electronics and positioning systems accurate to the centimeter. But opponents say it could also mean dead cell phones, thwarted satellite reception—even plane wrecks.

Cloning Cows

With just homemade needles and some cells from an ear biopsy, Jose Cibelli of Cyagra demonstrates how to build a blue-ribbon steer.

Leading Edge

Junctions

From the editor

Prototype

Prototype

Straight from the lab: technology´s first draft

Trailing Edge

Blue Screen on the Silver Screen

More than 70 years old, the blue screen is the key to Hollywood´s black magic.

Columns

Firewall Follies

The complacency firewalls breed is ultimately more damaging than the computer pirates they keep out.

Push-Button Innovation

The telecom industry doesn´t need more bandwidth. It needs ways to get people to use the bandwidth they have.

Of Oncomice and Men

What the U.S. could learn about patenting life forms—and about civic engagement—by looking to Canada.

Upstream

Polymer Memory

Computer memory could soon earn the ultimate commercial validation: the cheap plastic knock-off.

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