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IEEE Spectrum November 2006 Paul O'Donovan	Goodbye, CRT The cathode-ray tube is on the way out. What will replace it? (Hint: it won't be plasma). Here's a look at all of the players.
IEEE Spectrum November 2006	Serpent Mother Neither words nor pictures do full justice to the Serpent Mother, a fire-breathing steel-and-electronics dragon that debuted this past August at Burning Man, an annual orgy of art, technology, and water deprivation held in the Nevada desert.
IEEE Spectrum November 2006 John Voelcker	Electric Cars For Enlightened Stars Tesla Roadster... Chevrolet Sequel... Tango 600...
IEEE Spectrum November 2006 Willie D. Jones	Blood Test New biometric sensors at ATMs and airports use infrared light to create a digital map of the blood vessels inside a person's hand.
IEEE Spectrum November 2006 Samuel K. Moore	Laser on Silicon Scientists have managed to combine an indium-phosphide light emitter and a silicon chip to produce a hybrid laser that, years from now, could lead to cheap terabit-per-second connections within and around computers.
IEEE Spectrum November 2006 Alexander Hellemans	Spin Doctoring Many research groups around the world are looking for ways to replace copper connections on VLSI chips. A really exotic concept relies on atomic spin, a quantum-mechanical property related to magnetism, and on waves generated when that spin is disturbed.
Popular Mechanics October 31, 2006 Matt Sullivan	Trick and Treat: Behind the Scenes of the New "Nightmare Before Christmas" and the 3-D Movie Revolution How George Lucas' special effects house and new digital projection technology are manipulating images so fast your brain can't tell the difference -- and how Hollywood can.
The Motley Fool October 30, 2006 Jack Uldrich	IBM to Chips: Cool It! Big Blue's new chip-cooling technique could keep Moore's Law on track. IBM's system, while not yet ready for commercial production, is reportedly so efficient that officials expect it will double cooling efficiency.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2006 Maureen Campbell	Intelligence in Three Dimensions: We Live in a 3-D World, and so Should Computers Encouraged by the progress on target recognition and tracking for in-the-field use, engineers are extending the principle of intelligent 3-D processing to dynamic change detection.
Wired November 2006 Steven Levy	The Perfect Thing Five years ago, Apple engineers used foam core and old fishing weights to craft a model of a new MP3 player. The age of the iPod was about to begin.
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