Engineering

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Wired June 26, 2007 Daniel Wilson	Everything I Need to Know About (Real) Robots I Learned From Transformers While nobody is seriously trying to build a full-on Transformer, some projects embrace the idea more wholeheartedly than others. Check out these examples of what Hasbro's toy line hath wrought.
Wired June 26, 2007 Sonia Zjawinski	Limit-Telephotographer Spies on Stealth Military Installations Based on astrophotography, Trevor Paglen has developed a way to zoom in on objects many miles away with his camera.
Wired June 26, 2007 David A. Kaplan	Extreme Sailing: The Biggest Boat in the World Tom Perkins set out to build the biggest, riskiest, fastest, most technologically advanced, single-hulled sailing mega yacht in the world. The 289-foot Maltese Falcon, launched in spring 2006, is that engineering dream come to life.
Chemistry World July 18, 2007 Lionel Milgrom	Optimism Greets China's Quest for Clean Coal After 40 years of failure, Chinese scientists are on the verge of successfully producing clean fuels from underground coal deposits.
IEEE Spectrum July 2007 Saswato R. Das	Power Tool for Making Nanoscale Objects A physics team uses a special electron microscope to carve tiny gold, silver, and aluminum structures a few nanometers across.
Smithsonian July 2007 Eric Jaffe	Life Unplugged Bundle up your power chords -- wireless energy transfer is here.
AskMen.com Ross Bonander	Top 10: All-American Inventions Some inventions are so identifiably American that they've become synonymous with, and emblematic of, the character of the nation -- like the Corvette.
IEEE Spectrum July 2007 Suhas Sreedhar	Plastic Solar Cells Get a Boost by Doubling Up Scientists in Korea and California have invented a new way of boosting the efficiency of cheap plastic solar cells, making them more competitive with traditional silicon solar cells. The key is to make the solar cells in pairs.
PC Magazine July 11, 2007 Erik Rhey	Future Watch: Geosimulation New computational model can assist public safety and health officials in managing crowds.
PC Magazine July 11, 2007 Isabelle Groc	The Bytes and the Bees Technology of the future draws its inspiration from Mother Nature.
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