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Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006	Laser Modules with AC Power Adapters BEA Lasers is offering the 150P series laser modules with AC power adapters, which plug to an AC power supply to produce 6-volts DC for the laser.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006	Desktop Nanopositioning System Discovery Technology International is offering the RoboMate positioner, a precision desktop-size combined angular-linear motorized nanopositioning system.
Fast Company January 2006 Scott Kirsner	Being There DreamWorks Animation couldn't find a videoconferencing system that made CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg happy -- so it built its own.
Fast Company January 2006 Joseph Manez	This Will Make Your Skin Crawl A new concept for programmable video displays embedded just under the surface of your epidermis could let your own skin become a medical monitor.
Fast Company January 2006 Lucas Conley	Getting Inside Your Head A company that "fingerprints" brain activity to gauge emotional responses has attracted interest from Madison Ave. to the CIA.
Fast Company January 2006 Ted Smalley Bowen	When Worlds Collide You'd expect a disconnect between an out-there conceptual artist-designer and archetypal straight-ahead engineers and scientists. But Vito Acconci has morphed into something of a chief creative officer, working through and with more conventionally trained designers.
Scientific American January 16, 2006 Sarah Todd Davidson	Pumped-Up Performance Engineers report that it is just a matter of a few tweaks over the next year before inflatable aircraft or inflatable wings on otherwise normal airplanes will be operational.
Food Engineering January 1, 2006 Kevin T. Higgins	Articulated Slaves Ever since a Czech playwright coined the term 85 years ago, robots have offered intriguing automation possibilities. Now they're asserting themselves in food plants, with articulated-arm units for palletizing leading the way.
Food Engineering January 1, 2006 Kevin T. Higgins	Mini Willie Wonka Chocolate making is a process shrouded in mystique. Brazilian engineer Flavio Abaurre now hopes a new chocolate conching system can simplify the process and encourage gourmet chocolatiers to engage in automated processing.
Popular Mechanics January 2006 Jennifer Weeks	Sun City When 18 teams of students built a solar neighborhood in the nation's capital, they created a showcase of the best new technology for conserving energy and harnessing the power of the sun.
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