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PC Magazine April 20, 2005 John R. Quain	A Display's Best Friend Displays can never be too flat--or too bright. Scientists are using diamond nanodust to create FED (field-emitter display) displays that combine the best of CRT with the packaging of the LCD.
PC Magazine April 20, 2005 Sebastian Rupley	Searching for Signs of Life In a test run in Chile's Atacama Desert, a rover built by a research team has become the first robot to identify life.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2005 Jean-Philippe Tigneres	Full-wave EMI and thermal simulations cut time-to-market by 20 percent Barco designed a ruggedized computer for defense and avionics. This article explains how they used models and simulations to improve the process.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2005 John Keller	Editor's Notebook: Darpa Details Requirements for High-Energy Diode-Laser Initiative The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is moving ahead with a program to develop a 100-kilowatt weapons-grade diode laser capable of destroying military targets.
BusinessWeek May 2, 2005 Otis Port	Desktop Factories The book "FAB" by Neil Gershenfeld details personal fabrication systems, which are small, inexpensive clusters of tools and software that function as complete job shops.
IEEE Spectrum April 2005 Harry et al.	Balancing Act New advances in sensory enhancement technology may directly improve mechanical sensory function to help prevent falls in the elderly and foot injuries and amputations in people with diabetes.
IEEE Spectrum April 2005 Steven Cherry	Anger Management Emotion-sensitive software call-monitoring system does call recording, quality monitoring, analysis -- and, by measuring changes in a voice's pitch, anger detection.
IEEE Spectrum April 2005 Linda Geppert	Power to the Molecules A "crossbar latch" supplies the missing piece for a nanosize alternative to the transistor. Now, researchers at Hewlett-Packard plan to knit them into a huge circuit, hoping to put the technology on the market in about 10 years.
IEEE Spectrum April 2005 Steven Cherry	Ethernet's High-Wire Act As ever-richer media burden data networks, a new IEEE standard is needed to ensure quality of service
Technology Research News April 20, 2005 Eric Smalley	Telescopes Make Bug-Eye Optics Researchers have developed a prototype artificial compound eye made from three stacked sets of microlenses that form an array of tiny telescopes that could be used for camera phones, infrared vision systems and optical sensors.
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