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Popular Mechanics July 24, 2008 Mike Allen	Building a DIY Fuel-Saving Gadget, Cheap Tech Gets Big Results For cars and trucks built before OBDII diagnostic ports were required by the EPA, you can make your own low-tech fuel-economy computer -- with a vacuum gauge that costs about twenty bucks!
Wired August 2008 Katharine Gammon	Most Dangerous Object in the Office This Month: Neodymium Supermagnets With a combined pull force is 800 pounds, magnets from United Nuclear Scientific Supplies would cause mayhem in the office.
IEEE Spectrum July 2008 Monica Heger	Why Microwave Auditory Effect Crowd-Control Gun Won't Work Sierra Nevada Corp. plans to build what it calls a nonlethal microwave ray gun with the ability to beam irritating sounds into people's heads.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2008 John McHale	Military turning toward COTS displays Military designers are realizing they can reap major performance benefits at half the cost if they start using commercial off the shelf displays, especially in command-and-control applications
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2008 Courtney E. Howard	Lockheed Martin and Rice University Launch LANCER for Nanotechnology Research Scientific minds at Lockheed Martin and Rice University are partnering to develop new technologies, including nanotechnologies, for a range of applications in electronics, energy, and security.
National Defense August 2008 Grace V. Jean	Harnessing the Sun's Energy Through Transparent Photovoltaics Researchers here have developed a small transparent solar cell prototype that may one day capture sunlight streaming in through a window and produce enough electricity to power homes and office buildings.
National Defense August 2008 McClintock & Holbrook	Alternative Fuels: Taking A Second Look at Ammonia The search for alternative transportation fuels has led to anhydrous ammonia, a chemical widely used as a fertilizer.
National Defense August 2008 Grace V. Jean	Hydrogen Fuel Cells to Power Homes, Vehicles in Japan Next year, companies including Panasonic, Toshiba and Toyota will begin selling residential fuel cell systems across the nation, says Hisashi Yano, director of the Japan Hydrogen Fuel Cell demonstration park.
National Defense August 2008 Sara Peck	Civilian Drones Have Yet to Pass Weather Test Researchers at the Army's White Sands Missile Range in Arizona are developing weather forecasting software to help unmanned aerial vehicles fly in a variety of climates.
IEEE Spectrum July 2008 Monica Heger	Microsoft Engineers Invent Energy-Efficient LCD Competitor Telescopic pixel display lets more light out than an LCD
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