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IEEE Spectrum May 2005 Willie D. Jones	Easy Ride Bose Corp. uses speaker technology to give cars adaptive suspension.
Technology Research News May 4, 2005 Kimberly Patch	Memory Mimic Aids Reading Researchers have devised software that leverages the way the brain models words to help speed the process of reading or skimming through digitized text.
Technology Research News May 4, 2005	Surface Tension Drives Nanomotor Researchers have found a way to harness surface tension to drive nanomachines.
Technology Research News May 4, 2005	Laser Sniffs Explosives Researchers have built a device that detects when molecules of the explosives TNT and DNT stick to a thin film of polymer, or plastic.
Technology Research News May 4, 2005	Nano Pyramids Boost Fuel Cells Researchers have devised a way to make iridium surfaces that are extremely finely textured. The surface is textured with pyramids which increases the available surface area of the metal. The increased surface area speeds the catalytic reaction that breaks down ammonia to extract hydrogen.
Technology Research News May 4, 2005	Noisy Snapshots Show Quantum Weirdness Researchers have devised a relatively simple way to detect a pair of entangled, or linked atoms. The detection ability advances quantum computer and quantum communications research.
IEEE Spectrum May 2005 Tekla S. Perry	Sultan of Sound Voice mail, speech recognition, the artificial larynx, packet-switched voice--these commonplace applications build on the pioneering research of James L. Flanagan.
IEEE Spectrum May 2005 Hod Lipson	Homemade By giving everyone the means of production, personal fabrication systems could usher in a new age of customization.
IEEE Spectrum May 2005 Harry Goldstein	Down and Out in Ham Lake A cautionary tale to all inventors who surrender their patents in return for funding: Corliss Orville Burandt thought he was on his way to becoming a millionaire when he discovered that Honda's Intelligent VTEC engine used a technique that he believed he already patented.
IEEE Spectrum May 2005	Finding Noyce's Notebook When Leslie Berlin started looking for Robert Noyce's biography for her Stanford University Ph.D. thesis, she found there wasn't one. So she decided to write one herself: Robert Noyce and the Tunnel Diode.
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