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The Web´s New Currency

December/January 2003

A new generation of e-payment companies makes it easy to “pay as you go” for inexpensive Web content, portending big profits for online businesses.

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Features

Categorized in 17035
Big-Picture Biotech
Systems biology aims to provide a clearer picture of how diseases work-and how to prevent them.
Categorized in Policy
7 Hot Projects
These seven technologies are about to make their way out of the lab, onto the market-and into our lives.
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Our Innovation Backlog
The flow of innovations is as strong as ever, but the U.S. is slipping in its ability to commercialize them.
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The Corporate R&D Scorecard 2003
The R&D spending of 300 top technology companies.

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- Other People’s Progress
  From the editor in chief
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- Letters
  Insights and opinions from our readers
  Categorized in 17037
- Drivers: Pay Attention
  Software-enhanced video camera makes sure the person with hands on the wheel stays focused on the road.
  Categorized in 17036
- Tree Bot
  Packed with environmental sensors, an Internet-linked robot patrols the forest canopy.
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- Games on the Grid
  Grid computing isn’t just for scientists and engineers anymore: IBM has harnessed the grid to online game play.
  Categorized in Uncategorized
- Bomb Buster
  Neutron-based device could foil terrorists by sensing explosives in baggage.
  Categorized in 17032
- Great Balls of Fire
  New software simulates the complex physics of combustion to produce convincing animations of flame and smoke.
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- Security in Black and White
  Software that adds a layer of secret data provides a more versatile digital watermark to authenticate electronically transmitted images.
  Categorized in 17037
- Digital Sketch Pad
  Software recognizes and interpret shapes sketched on a tablet computer, enabling designers to bypass paper.
  Categorized in Uncategorized
- HIV Monitor
  A portable-and potentially very inexpensive-device for checking a person’s immune system could help fight HIV in developing countries.
  Categorized in 17032
- Diagnosing with Data
  The Mayo Clinic is transforming medicine with advanced computing.
  Categorized in 17035
- Wireless Goes Farther
  Categorized in Uncategorized
- Vein Check
  Fingerprint scanners may seem the ultimate in identification technology, but tricking them is actually not all that hard.
  Categorized in 17035
- Academic Patent Binge
  Universities are cashing in on licenses as entrepreneurism takes root on campuses: a Technology Review exclusive report.
  Categorized in 17036
- Networking’s Next Level
  Making it easier to make friends and influence people on the Web.
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- Making Cheaper Hydrogen
  Better catalysts could be the key to unlocking hydrogen as a source of efficient, reliable power.
  Categorized in 17037
- Hovercrafter
  It wasn’t always smooth sailing for the inventor of the hovercraft.
  Categorized in 17032
- Demo: Wireless for the Disabled
  The Georgia Institute of Technology’s devices aid those with mobility, vision, and hearing impairments.
  Categorized in Uncategorized
- Lunch Is on Me
  Can a thermodynamic engineer convince people to drink purified sewage?
  Categorized in 17036
- Stop! ID Thief!
  Identity theft is common-but keeping a watchful eye on your credit card accounts is now easy.
  Categorized in 17036
- Medicine Goes to the Dogs
  Pampered pets provide loopholes for biomedical entrepreneurs.
  Categorized in 17035
- Race in Medicine
  Sociologist Troy Duster on the role of race in medicine.
  Categorized in 17035
- Online Meeting
  SightSpeed’s technology enables delay-free video Web conferences.
  Categorized in 17035
- Bomb Scanners
  How current airport bomb detectors operate-plus a look at the next generation of scanning technologies.
  Categorized in 17032

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Magazine

The Web´s New Currency

Features

Big-Picture Biotech

7 Hot Projects

Our Innovation Backlog

The Corporate R&D Scorecard 2003

Other People’s Progress

Letters

Drivers: Pay Attention

Tree Bot

Games on the Grid

Bomb Buster

Great Balls of Fire

Security in Black and White

Digital Sketch Pad

HIV Monitor

Diagnosing with Data

Wireless Goes Farther

Vein Check

Academic Patent Binge

Networking’s Next Level

Making Cheaper Hydrogen

Hovercrafter

Demo: Wireless for the Disabled

Lunch Is on Me

Stop! ID Thief!

Medicine Goes to the Dogs

Race in Medicine

Online Meeting

Bomb Scanners

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