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IEEE Spectrum January 2006 David Kushner	Location, Location, Location Location-based games aim to transform not only the way people conceive of electronic games but the way they experience them. They also represent the bleeding edge of a new culture and industry: mobile games brought in $72 million in the United States in 2004.
IEEE Spectrum January 2006 Harry Goldstein	Loser: A Touch Too Much Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp.'s human area network approach to data transfer targets a solved problem. Unless NTT can overcome some major technological, psychological, and economic hurdles, a HAN won't ever amount to anything.
IEEE Spectrum January 2006 Erico Guizzo	Winner: Carbon Takeoff With a radical carbon-fiber composite wing, Boeing is pushing the envelope of aviation design in its new 787 jetliner.
IEEE Spectrum January 2006 Tekla S. Perry	Winner: Black, White, and Readable The low-contrast flat-panel readouts ubiquitous to today's consumer electronics products may soon be obsolete, thanks to a tiny Dublin-based start-up
IEEE Spectrum January 2006 William Sweet	Winner: Adrenaline for the Grid A novel superconducting device provides essential voltage support.
IEEE Spectrum January 2006 Justin Mullins	Chaotic Communication Researchers in Europe announced that they had used chaos to send digital messages at gigabit-per-second speeds over 115 kilometers of commercial optical fiber beneath the streets of Athens, Greece.
IEEE Spectrum January 2006 John Boyd	Tokyo Power Quake-Proofs Its Grid Control System By maintaining an attitude of vigilant preparedness, Japan's Tepco is able to deal with the expected and unexpected and keep its power lines humming almost all the time.
IEEE Spectrum January 2006 Samuel K. Moore	Barbados Has A Sweet Idea Agricultural interests have hit on a way to keep the island's cane fields planted while taking a bite out of another nagging problem -- the ballooning cost of oil. The West Indies Central Sugar Cane Breeding Station has developed a breed of cane specially suited to fuel electric power plants.
PC Magazine December 21, 2005 Sebastian Rupley	Beam Me Up The VirtuSphere is a hollow ball that sits on top of a base that lets the sphere rotate 360 degrees. The person inside it interacts with an immersive virtual-reality environment.
PC Magazine December 21, 2005 Karen Jones	Toward Intelligent Machines California researchers have developed a robot that learns from patterns.
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