Engineering

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Fast Company November 2006 Clive Thompson	A Head For Detail Gordon Bell feeds every piece of his life into a surrogate brain called MyLifeBits, and soon the rest of us will be able to do the same. But does perfect memory make you smarter, or just drive you nuts?
Fast Company November 2006 Evan West	Cha Cha Cha Scott Jones is back in his zone, working 20-hour days on a new Internet search engine.
Geotimes November 2006 Jennifer Yauck	Sustainable Mobility: Hybrid Vehicles Compete An interview with a Virginia Tech graduate student in mechanical engineering about his team's accomplishments, the place of alternative fuels and new technology in the future, and what he's gained from the Challenge X experience.
IEEE Spectrum November 2006 Tekla S. Perry	Crowning the Clean Tech Stars New contest spurs innovative ideas of energy conservation.
Popular Mechanics January 2006 Bevin Wallace	PM: This Is My Job - Slope Groomer Grooming ski slopes is all about the big machine that you get to drive.
Chemistry World November 2, 2006 Richard Van Noorden	How Best to Use Biomass? Researchers have developed an efficient way of turning renewable resources like vegetable oils -- and potentially biomass - into hydrogen-rich gas. The gas could be converted to synthetic fuels and industrial chemicals, or used in fuel cells.
PC Magazine November 1, 2006 Sebastian Rupley	Abracadabra New project is making an effort to create moving, physical, three-dimensional replicas of people or objects that are so real you won't be able to mark them as fake.
PC Magazine November 1, 2006	Robot Beats Haile is far from the just a musical robot.
PC Magazine November 1, 2006 Patrick Norton	Nabaztag: A Smart Rabbit The name Nabaztag is a clumsy one for a cute little Wi-Fi-enabled rabbit is an MP3 alarm clock, weather forecaster, stock ticker, and RSS fee provider in one.
Geotimes November 2006 Rod Combellick	Building a Natural Gas Pipeline Through Earthquake Country With proposals now being considered to build a natural gas pipeline, it is ever-important to understand the seismic hazards along potential routes, so that the pipeline and its spurs can be properly designed and managed for seismic safety.
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