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Wired May 19, 2008 David Dobbs	An Omnidirectional Treadmill Means One Giant Leap for Virtual Reality One of the problems with virtual reality has always been that you had to either confine yourself to a joystick or strap into some crazy harness. A group of researchers have now a movement platform for the game.
Wired May 19, 2008 Chris Hardwick	Thomas Edison's Take on New Napping Technologies The most impressive-sounding nap technologies of the 21st century.
Wired May 19, 2008 William Snyder	Military Secrets Help Produce the Ultimate Synthetic Fishing Rod Unidirectional carbon fiber used in Apache helicopter blades creates a light and flexible solution for fishing rods.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2008 John Keller	Navigation and guidance meets sensor fusion Knowing where you are and where you are going no longer involves only the Global Positioning System (GPS); systems designers are integrating a growing number of sensors and data-fusion algorithms to create fool-proof, jam-proof, real-time positioning information.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2008 John McHale	Cell Phone Sensors Detect Radiation to Thwart Nuclear Terrorism Researchers are engineering cell phones that help detect potential terrorist threats such as radiological "dirty bombs" and nuclear weapons.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2008 Courtney E. Howard	And in This Corner... The Crusher! Today's unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) are outfitted with the latest technology, making them smart, tough, and well armed.
PC Magazine April 4, 2008 Frank Washburn	Charging Into the Future Researchers are upgrading lithium ion and green-alternative batteries for increasingly power-hungry mobile devices.
PC Magazine April 4, 2008 Jim Louderback	Next-Gen Solar Heats Up Thin-film solar panels are a real breakthrough, built via a futuristic mashup of ink jet printing technology, aluminum foil, and space-age chemical compounds.
Popular Mechanics May 13, 2008 Erik Sofge	3 Frontiers in Earthquake Tech to Aid China--and Help the U.S. Can a network of GPS sensors store enough data online to scout the Bay Area's looming quake? And could the rig work in the Chinese countryside?
Chemistry World May 9, 2008 Simon Hadlington	All-in-one gene detection on a chip Scientists in Singapore have invented a tiny machine that can rapidly prepare, purify and genetically analyse blood or other biological samples in less than 20 minutes.
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