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Fast Company Jul/Aug 2012 Seth Porges	In Dyson's New Vacuum, A Rolling Ball Mechanism Doubles As The Engine In the new Dyson DC40 Multi Floor vacuum, the ball is now also the engine -- more than 110 pieces of machinery, circuitry, and filters are stuffed inside.
Fast Company Jul/Aug 2012	A Super Safe Car Seat Designed By Racecar Engineers What happens when race car engineers help create a car seat? Barry Mahal, EVP of car-seat design for Dorel Juvenile Group, recalls how the Maxi-Cosi Prezi came to be.
Fast Company Jul/Aug 2012 Christina Chaey	Audi's Predictive Suspension Delivers A Smoother Car Ride By Anticipating Potholes The system's camera can spot larger surface irregularities up to 65 feet ahead.
Chemistry World June 7, 2012 Andrew Turley	Plastics makers to win from electric cars You need lightweight materials to make a good electric vehicle.
Chemistry World June 7, 2012 Yuandi Li	'Litmus paper' for food spoilage Scientists in the US have developed a cheap fluorescent sensor for food spoilage that could be as easy to use as litmus paper.
National Defense July 2012 Eric Beidel	Soft Robots Could Open Up New World of Spy Tactics The Pentagon could turn to tiny soft robots to fit in the nooks and crannies of the battlefield, taking sensors ever closer to the enemy.
National Defense July 2012 Eric Beidel	Software May Help Analysts Read Between the Lines The Pentagon wants to get to the bottom of what it calls "deep natural language" by creating an automated system that can process text at its most basic level to reveal meaning that otherwise may not be apparent.
National Defense July 2012 Eric Beidel	Troops Fashion Makeshift Counter-IED Tool Marines and soldiers recently discovered that a pole used to install cable and wiring could be combined with a steel hook crafted locally in Afghanistan to form a new counter-IED tool.
National Defense July 2012 Dan Ward	Tactical Radios: Military Procurement Gone Awry How exactly did the Army go about making the radio better and better? By increasing its complexity, extending the schedule, spending more money and making the device larger.
IEEE Spectrum June 2012 Glenn Zorpette	The Beginning of The End of Cash Cash's role is waning, as mobile, encryption, and other technologies let us plug directly into the digital economy
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