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Smithsonian January 2007 Dava Sobel	The Shadow Knows Why a leading expert on the history of timekeeping set out to create a sundial unlike anything the world has ever seen.
PC Magazine December 20, 2006 Angela Chang	Recharging, The Wireless Way Two physicists have developed a concept that could let you charge your electronics as easily as you get a suntan: without wires.
PC Magazine December 20, 2006	Paper Power Rocket, a Korean maker of batteries, has developed flexible, thin, paper batteries targeted at smart-card manufacturers, RFID users, and drug-delivery systems.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2006	Northrop Grumman Solid-State Laser Intended for Several Kinds of Military Missions Scientists at the Northrop Grumman Space Technology segment are developing a high-energy, solid-state laser called Vesta that company officials claim is powerful enough to perform many basic military missions.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2006	Northrop Grumman Test Fires Powerful, Continuously Pulsed Illuminator Laser A new diode-pumped solid-state, next-generation illuminator laser developed delivered multikilowatt output power while operating at 5,000 pulses per second during recent tests, company officials reported.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2006 John Keller	Demands for High Power and Optimum Size Drive Some Power-Supply Makers Away From Traditional COTS Solutions Moore's Law is placing a set of increasingly crushing demands on power-component makers who must feed the right amounts of electricity to the latest generations of microprocessor behemoths.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2006 Stolmeijer & Jain	Understanding Reliability in Amorphous-Silicon-Antifuse Field-Programmable Gate Arrays Field-programmable gate-array vendors need to consider the antifuse's wear-out mechanisms and mitigate them through a combination of design, testing, software tools, and programming control.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2006 Steve Rood Goldman	Ethernet Key Technology for Network-Centric Warfare Here, a product manager for high-speed networking at Data Device Corp. explains why advanced ethernet technology is pivotal in military applications.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2006 John McHale	Sensors Light Path to Defeating Incoming Military designers are taking advantage of the latest sensor technology and signal processing systems to track and kill incoming enemy missiles.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2006 Courtney E. Howard	Storage Trends in the Trenches The latest advancements in portable, rugged data storage are designed to deliver critical data to warfighters on the battlefield quickly, securely, and without fail.
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