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Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2008 John McHale	Incoming! Precision Guidance Keeps Munitions on Target Lasers, global positioning systems, and other modern technologies have made hitting fixed targets with missiles and bombs extremely efficient. Now defense experts are designing systems to hit targets on the move and beyond line of sight.
Scientific American December 2008 Jesse Emspak	Chasing Rainbows: Full-Spectrum Photovoltaics From infrared to ultraviolet, a new photovoltaic material responds to the full spectrum of sunlight
IEEE Spectrum December 2008 Monica Heger	Cheap Microfluidic Device Made From Paper and Tape Harvard scientists hope to reduce the cost of medical tests
IEEE Spectrum December 2008 Saswato R. Das	Paper-Thin Speakers Made From Carbon Nanotubes Simple-to-make speakers are transparent and flexible
IEEE Spectrum December 2008 Meredith Ringel Morris	Slideshow: Tabletop Computers Forget the keyboard, mouse, and display as you take this photo tour through the development of surface computing. The desk is the computer
IEEE Spectrum December 2008 R. Stanley Williams	How We Found the Missing Memristor The memristor -- the functional equivalent of a synapse -- could revolutionize circuit design
IEEE Spectrum December 2008 John Voelcker	The Soul of a New Mercedes How the F700 concept vehicle offers luxury-car performance, comfort, and econo-car fuel efficiency
IEEE Spectrum December 2008 Schaeffer, Bulitko & Buro	Bots Get Smart Can video games breathe new life into AI research?
IEEE Spectrum December 2008 Prachi Patel-Predd	A Battery-Capacitor Hybrid for Hybrids Engineers give lead-acid batteries a makeover by crossing them with ultracapacitors.
IEEE Spectrum December 2008 Paul McFedries	Engineering New Traffic Patterns, and New Lingo For Them Engineering new methods of forcing people to drive slower.
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