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IEEE Spectrum January 2009 David Schneider	Winner: Radio Eye in the Sky ImSAR's synthetic-aperture radar is both small and affordable
IEEE Spectrum January 2009 Prachi Patel-Predd	Loser: The Ads Have Eyes TruMedia's facial-recognition system lets advertisers watch you watching their ads -- whether you want them to or not
IEEE Spectrum January 2009 David Kushner	A Rock Show Gets the LED Out Stadium acts like Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead are trading pyrotechnics and JumboTrons for LEDs and software.
IEEE Spectrum January 2009	You Tell Us: Cooking Up a New Fuel Source A US $5 million, city-bus-size microwave oven that Global Resource Corp. (GRC) is building will turn tires and other hydrocarbon-based scraps, like the plastic and vinyl, into fuel.
IEEE Spectrum January 2009	You Tell Us: Plug-In Trike A new hybrid three-wheel car from Venture Vehicles sips fuel, but only seats two people.
IEEE Spectrum January 2009	You Tell Us: What Your Tattoo Says About You Researchers are hard at work on systems for identifying people based on their physical characteristics.
IEEE Spectrum January 2009 Monica Heger	Cryptographers Take On Quantum Computers Researchers prepare for the day when quantum computers can easily crack today's codes.
IEEE Spectrum January 2009	Breathe Deeply A look at innovative rebreathers that let divers stay underwater for hours longer than before.
Popular Mechanics December 29, 2008 Jeremy Jacquot	3 Projects We Hope to See From the DOE's Next Nuclear Research Facility Studying rare nuclear isotopes with unstable, short-lived nuclei has plenty of practical and commendable applications in medicine, national security, and cosmology.
Popular Mechanics December 24, 2008 Andrew Moseman	Win Snowball Fights With Better Strategy and Snow Tech Snow experts to tell us what makes the best packing snow, how to build a solid snow fort and what tools you can use to dominate this winter.
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