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InternetNews March 22, 2004 Erin Joyce	(CDMA-Flavored) 3G's Chance to Shine Interoperability. Consolidation. 3G's price and promise. Moblogs. Speed. Network hopping. It's on the table and in the air at CTIA's Wireless 2004 show.
Popular Mechanics March 2004 Paul Eisenstein	World's Fastest Elevator Designing the fastest elevator for the Taipei 101 building was challenging.
InternetNews March 15, 2004 Alexander Wolfe	Toyota's Next-Gen Computers: Robots Two-legged 'personal assistant' prototypes to be shown in Japan.
PC Magazine March 10, 2004 Alexandra Robbins	Beyond Sensible Shoes Smart Skin, still in development, is made of a flexible material embedded with microsensors that mimic the signal sending of nerve cells. The sensors, which wirelessly communicate with receiving devices, can already monitor temperature and infrared radiation and are expected to detect pressure, touch, and even vital signs.
Technology Research News March 10, 2004 Eric Smalley	Red wine mends solar cells Researchers from the University of Toledo have found a way to increase energy production using red wine.
Technology Research News March 10, 2004 Kimberly Patch	Tiny pumps drive liquid circuits Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Lucent Technologies' Bell Laboratories have combined microfluidics and organic electronics to make a tunable plastic transistor that could enable low-cost methods to drive, control and monitor labs-on-a-chip. The device can also use tiny amounts of fluid to adjust optical devices.
Technology Research News March 10, 2004	Patterned fiber makes tiny scope Researchers from the University of Sydney in Australia have found a way to make an endoscope that's a dozen times smaller than today's 10-millimeter versions. The technology should make it possible to image areas that are inaccessible today.
Technology Research News March 10, 2004	Charges make micro whirlpools Researchers from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology have devised a way to define tiny patterns that carry positive, negative or neutral charge on the surface of a microchannel.
The Motley Fool March 2, 2004 Wherrett & Yelovich	Commercializing Nanotechnology This article gives you an overview of the three "industries" -- nanomaterials, nanobiotechnology, and nanoelectronics -- that will most use the technology, and some of the companies poised to benefit from the emerging science.
Geotimes March 2004	Venice upheaval A new take on an old idea may save Venice yet from being swallowed by the sea. In the Dec. 9 Eos, Giuseppe Gambolati and colleagues at the University of Padua in Italy propose the injection of seawater or carbon dioxide deep into the aquifer beneath Venice to essentially pump up the famed city.
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