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10 Emerging Technologies 2007

March 2007

This year, as every year, we present the 10 technologies we find most exciting–and most likely to alter industries, fields of research, and even the way we live.

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A Smarter Web
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- Letters
  Letters from our readers.
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- Fast, Bendable Computers
  Military antennas are the closest application.
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- Detecting Suicide Bombers
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- Tumor-Killing Nanoparticles
  A new class of imaging particles seeks out cancers’ blood vessels.
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- Nano Memory
  A nanowire device 100 times as dense as today’s memory chips.
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- Wall-Size Touch Screens
  Multi-touch displays advance.
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- Tiny Robotic Hand
  Four-fingered gripper to aid surgery.
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- Seeing Greenland
  New imaging technique shows how fast inland ice is melting.
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- Light Twister
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- Garbage Power
  Plasma turns waste to ethanol.
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- Fake Skin Kills Bacteria
  Skin that helps burn victims fight off infection.
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- A Battery Beyond Belief?
  A secret, fast-charging, powerful battery.
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- Superfast Silicon Optics
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- Power Bot
  Three-inch robot protects the grid.
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- Good Day Sunshine
  One of the largest solar energy plants in the world went on line in Portugal this winter.
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- Science Fiction: Osama Phone Home
  What happens when an ideological, technologically adept, highly determined group of conspirators are American?
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- Synthetic Biology on Display
  Researchers are fooling around with E. coli.
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- Vinod Khosla
  A veteran venture capitalist’s new energy.
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- Open Source and You
  The real value of open-source software is the community it fosters.
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- Engineering the Brain
  New tools are allowing neuroscientists to precisely control neurons.
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- Corporate Fountain of Youth
  Corporate support for innovation needs to begin at the board level.
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- Hell and Hydrogen
  No matter how well they’re engineered, hydrogen cars offer no real answer to the imminent threats posed by global warming.
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- Nanocosmetics: Buyer Beware
  Is that expensive jar of skin cream on my dresser safe to use?
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- Choosing Babies
  A growing number of genetic tests can be performed during in vitro fertilization, before pregnancy even begins. Is that a good thing?
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- The Incredible Shrinking Engine
  A new engine design could significantly improve fuel efficiency for cars and SUVs, at a fraction of the cost of today’s hybrid technology.
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- From the Labs: Nanotechnology
  New publications, experiments and breakthroughs in nanotechnology–and what they mean.
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- From the Labs: Biotechnology
  New publications, experiments and breakthroughs in biotechnology–and what they mean.
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- From the Labs: Information Technology
  New publications, experiments and breakthroughs in information technology–and what they mean.
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- Jump-Starting Solar Energy
  The potential of solar energy remains unfulfilled.
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