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IEEE Spectrum October 2006 Stephen Cass	Hardware for Your Software Radio What's going to be the next big thing in wireless technology? One bet is software-defined radio, and thanks to a piece of hardware called the Universal Software Radio Peripheral, or USRP, you can get right to the bleeding edge today.
IEEE Spectrum October 2006 Erico Guizzo	A New Spin on the Computer Mouse How Logitech engineered a high-speed scroll wheel that lets users whiz through long documents with the flick of a finger.
IEEE Spectrum October 2006 Barry E. DiGregorio	Tsunami Surveillance By Satellites Could a system relying on signaling between GPS satellites and ground stations provide prompter warnings? A group of scientists say they have developed a concept for such a system and that it could detect deadly tsunamis in as little as 15 minutes.
IEEE Spectrum October 2006 Stephen Cass	Podcast Picks Engineering Works... COSC110... Advanced Concepts Team... In The Trenches...
IEEE Spectrum October 2006 Brian R. Santo	Acronym Addiction When you live on the cutting edge of technology, there are, literally, no words to describe it. Instead we have acronyms. Lots and lots of acronyms. ABT... BEOL... CSP... etc.
IEEE Spectrum October 2006 Phillip F. Schewe	Electric Idyll Idaho's major utility has resisted deregulation and is doing just fine. Idaho Power prides itself on the care it takes maintaining the basic physical elements of its grid, starting with the distribution transformers seen being tested and repaired.
Popular Mechanics October 2006 Glenn Harlan Reynolds	Nanotechnology: Good Things in Small Packages Critics exaggerate the dangers. Boosters flog the benefits. Let's give nanotechnology a chance to develop before we start taking sides.
Popular Mechanics October 2006 Jeff Wise	Just Don't Call it a Blimp It might look like something out of a Jules Verne novel, but this prototype of a hybrid airship could hold the key to tomorrow's long-distance, low-cost air transport.
PC Magazine September 27, 2006	But Can It Flip People Off? This robotic hand can play against you in a game of rock-paper-scissors.
PC Magazine September 27, 2006 Sebastian Rupley	Extreme Close-up Although it looks like some kind of sci-fi snake, that's actually an extreme close-up of the sharpest man-made object ever.
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