Wind Power for Pennies
Windmills may finally be ready to compete with fossil-fuel generators. The technology trick: turn them backwards and put hinges on their blades.
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Why Software Is So Bad
For years we´ve tolerated buggy, bloated, badly organized computer programs. But soon, we´ll innovate, litigate and regulate them into reliability.
The Wireless Arcade
They don´t have fancy 3-D graphics, but video games for handheld devices stand poised to capture a huge U.S. market. Why? Because we all have to wait.
Antibody Drug Revival
The human immune system is still the best resource for fighting disease. After a decade of failed promise, drugs that exploit it are finally flooding the market.
Ghana´s Digital Dilemma
The lesson from West Africa: good computers and fast modems don´t matter if you can´t get a dial tone and the power keeps going out.
The Programmable Building
The MIT Media Lab´s Neil Gershenfeld tours the building of the future, where interchangeable power sockets, switches and appliances snap into the walls—then plug into the Internet.
Leading Edge
Lessons from Innovation
From the editor in chief
Prototype
Prototype
Straight from the lab: technology´s first draft
Innovation News
Trailing Edge
Drive, She Said
Florence Lawrence: "the first movie star" and an automotive pioneer.
Columns
Declare E-Mail Independence
Big e-mail providers snap their fingers, and the masses obey, like sheep. But there´s a way to reclaim control.
Garbage In, Innovation Out
From coal mining to computer networks, sometimes the bathwater is worth more than the baby.
When Patenting Works
Despite its flaws, the system does protect inventors against big companies who might usurp their ideas.
Upstream
Prosody
Computers will really understand what you say when they know how you feel when you say it.
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Magnetic Random-Access Memory
Take a tour through a magnetic random-access memory cell.
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