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PC Magazine September 12, 2007 Brian Heater	Gearlog: All Hail The Orb This color-changing ball is designed to clue users in to information such as weather forecasts, stocks, and pollen levels.
PC Magazine September 12, 2007 Anton Galang	Hacking the Vote California computer scientists find ways to hack into electronic voting systems, causing vendors who submitted systems -- Diebold Election Systems, Hart InterCivic, and Sequoia Voting Systems -- to be temporarily decertified.
IEEE Spectrum September 2007 Prachi Patel-Predd	Cutting the Power in Data Centers Makers of servers and their processors get together to reduce the wasted watts (and sell some new hardware, too).
IndustryWeek October 1, 2007 John Teresko	Meet the New Robots The latest generation of robots offers performance advances, growing integration of vision and an enlarging capability to transform manufacturing.
Chemistry World September 19, 2007 Ned Stafford	Electric Cars Hoping for Lithium Ion Revolution General Motors is betting that chemists are close to solving the plug-in hybrid electric vehicle puzzle, by developing rechargeable batteries that are safe, robust, long-lasting, and inexpensive.
Chemistry World September 18, 2007 Lewis Brindley	Nanocircuits Made Easy Scientists in Israel have developed a simple way of making complex networks of carbon nanotubes and stamping them onto circuit boards, taking a further step towards building the next generation of smaller, faster microchips.
National Defense October 2007 Grace Jean	Robot Controllers Free Operators to Handle Weapons Several companies have developed technologies that untether troops from immobile controllers and give them the ability to hold their weapons and multitask while commanding their robots.
National Defense October 2007 Stew Magnuson	Technologists Take Aim at Enemy Snipers While countering snipers has not received the funding and attention of the IED threat, several programs are in various stages of development that researchers hope will make U.S. sniper teams more deadly.
National Defense October 2007 Stew Magnuson	Researchers Push for Advances in Night Vision Technology Night vision technology once gave the nation's armed forces an edge on the battlefield, but the devices have proliferated around the world.
National Defense October 2007 Grace Jean	Building Miniature `Noses' to Sniff Explosives To sense malicious chemicals and substances, such as explosives, scientists are searching for the holy grail in chemical sensing -- a mechanical device that is as good as or better than a dog's nose and can run nonstop to provide continuous monitoring of an environment.
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