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IEEE Spectrum January 2007 Willie D. Jones	You Tell Us: The Home Plug-In Hybrid Kit CalCars is selling a do-it-yourself conversion package for just under $5,000 that will allow anyone to turn a Prius into a plug-in.
IEEE Spectrum January 2007 Willie D. Jones	You Tell Us: Is It a Mirage or Is It Holographic Storage? The idea of using holograms to store data on computers has tantalized engineers since the 1960s, and now it finally looks like it's going to market.
IEEE Spectrum January 2007 Samuel K. Moore	You Tell Us: Electron Beams Zap Oil to Pump More Petrol Cold cracking uses beams of high-energy electrons to transform the thick parts of crude oil into oils, gasoline, and other petroleum products thin enough to pump through a pipeline. The question is whether a conservative, capital-intensive oil industry will buy the idea.
IEEE Spectrum January 2007 John Voelcker	Lithium Batteries for Hybrid Cars Hybrid cars need to travel farther in electric-only mode, and that means lithium-ion battery technologies have a lot riding on them.
The Motley Fool January 5, 2007 Tim Beyers	Blue Origin Lifts Off Bezos' prototype spacecraft nicknamed Goddard climbed to 285 feet before descending back to Earth. That's an important step forward on a long path toward the heavens. History teaches that billion-dollar innovations are created slowly.
The Motley Fool January 3, 2007 Rich Smith	Plug It In? If plug-in hybrid cars ever become a reality, they'll open up numerous investing opportunities -- in the automakers, of course; in the ethanol companies, perhaps; in battery makers; but most of all, in electric companies
Wired January 2007 Clive Thompson	It's Alive! Say hello to Pleo. From the guy who brought you Furby, it's a snuffling, stretching, oddly convincing robotic dinosaur. You are so going to want one.
IEEE Spectrum January 2007 William Sweet	Corn-o-Copia In today's hothouse political climate, some weird ethanol projects have taken root along with essentially sound ones.
IEEE Spectrum January 2007 Jean Kumagai	Radio Revolutionaries A cellphone based on software-defined radio would be lighter, smaller, cheaper, and more power efficient. What's more, it would be better at making calls.
IEEE Spectrum January 2007 Sandra Upson	Grounded No happy landings for latest twist on sci-fi staple: For the time being, the flying car stays tethered to the shop, a clunky compromise whose time may never come.
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