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BusinessWeek
July 19, 2004 |
Ready To Buy A Home Robot? For a glimpse into the future, BusinessWeek checked out some of the most intriguing robotic developments -- things your digital home could grow to love.   |
BusinessWeek
July 19, 2004 |
A Chat With Roomba Man The surprise success of iRobot's Roomba vacuum cleaner marked the arrival of mobile robotic appliances. Yet the company's CEO and co-founder is cautious about the future of more advanced humanoid robots. |
CIO
July 1, 2004 |
Preserving July 4th It took more than two years for engineers and scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and NASA to complete their work on new gold-plated, titanium-framed encasements for the Declaration of Independence. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
June 2004
Ben Ames |
Test-and-Measurement Tools Struggle to Keep up with Shrinking Chips Chips and buses are getting smaller and faster every day. For engineers trying to test military electronics, that means trouble. Test-and-measurement equipment is pushed to its limits trying to keep up with the latest, smallest circuits. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
June 2004
Ben Ames |
Engineers Learn to Blend Technologies in Joint Fighting Platforms To work effectively in joint warfighting, systems must be designed to cooperate from their inception, not patched together after the fact, says Navy Admiral Walter F. Doran, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. |
Technology Research News
June 30, 2004
Eric Smalley |
Holograms enable pocket projectors The method could lead to pocket-sized, battery-powered video projectors that produce images whose quality matches that of today's full-sized projectors. |
Technology Research News
June 30, 2004
Kimberly Patch |
Interface blends screen and video Facetop superimposes transparent images of a computer's desktop over video images of the user to allow the user to look at the video and desktop at the same time, which is useful for remote collaboration. |
Technology Research News
June 30, 2004 |
Paper promises better e-paper It is clear that computer displays will someday be thin and flexible enough to roll up, enabled by plastic electronics. |
Technology Research News
June 30, 2004 |
Birds-eye view helps guide public Researchers have devised a system that combines visual monitoring and simulation to allow a remote staff person to help visitors around a large-scale public space. The method could be used in practical applications in five to 10 years. |
Technology Research News
June 30, 2004 |
Chip protects single atoms Researchers have found a way to closely control the quantum states, or traits, of single atoms trapped in a microchip. The method is a step toward building devices like miniature atomic clocks that are an order of magnitude more accurate than those that exist today. |
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