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Technology Research News September 10, 2003	VR system grabs 3D video Technology has held out promises of virtual reality for years now, and such environments are slowly getting better. Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology have taken another step toward making virtual reality more real.
Technology Research News September 10, 2003	Quantum computing has limits Researchers from the University of Arkansas and Texas A&M University have shown that quantum computers, while theoretically useful for very large problems, are likely to always need very large amounts of power.
Technology Research News September 10, 2003	Gold speck highlights molecules How do you sense what is happening at the scale of molecules? Researchers have found a way to detect the very small spectral shifts that occur when the light scattering off a single gold nanoparticle interacts with molecules.
Technology Research News September 10, 2003	Neural net tracks skin color Researchers working to give computers and robots the ability to recognize gestures are up against several challenges. Researchers from China have come up with a way to use skin color to detect faces and hands.
Technology Research News September 10, 2003	Nano thermometer withstands heat Researchers from Japan have fashioned nano thermometers with an especially large temperature range from a magnesium oxide nanotubes filled with liquid gallium. The tiny thermometers are between 20 and 60 nanometers thick, or about one hundredth the diameter of a red blood cell.
Technology Research News September 10, 2003	Light drives electron logic Building a quantum computer is extremely difficult, and working models are at least one to two decades away. Researchers have taken the proposition a step forward by demonstrating a conditional logic gate made from a pair of electrons trapped in a quantum dot.
Outside September 2003 Florence Williams	Grease is the Word Biodiesel is about to go big-time. Will the ski-bum town of Telluride, Colorado, become the green-fuel Houston?
CIO September 1, 2003 Julie Hanson	Tiny Sensors Technology observers have been touting the coming proliferation of wireless sensors that will report all sorts of data about the stuff to which they are attached. Now researchers are watching a company called Dust Inc. to see how it executes its plans to sell small electronic sensors called motes.
Technology Research News August 27, 2003 Ted Smalley Bowen	Software speeds modeling A prototype design tool generates computer models of buildings in seconds -- just add basic shapes, and presto, instant architecture. The software automates the laborious task of generating realistic, varied models, which should give a big boost to architecture modeling, urban planning, game design and movie making.
Technology Research News August 27, 2003 Kimberly Patch	DNA plays tic-tac-toe In addition to its natural role as the blueprint of life, DNA has been tapped to compute and to form nanoscale machines. A new type of DNA logic is aimed at marrying these artificial functions to make control circuits for nano machines. The first result is an unbeatable tic-tac-toe player.
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