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Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2005	InGaAs shortwave infrared enables imaging of invisible lasers The expansion of military efforts has resulted in a dramatic increase in the number of electro-optic (EO) systems installed on military hardware. -Electro-optic imaging systems are now on everything from aircraft carriers to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to individual soldiers' rifles and helmets.
PC Magazine January 12, 2005 Bill Machrone	It's Cool to Be Cold You actually can touch the tip a couple of seconds after you've soldered a joint and not burn yourself.
Technology Research News January 12, 2005 Kimberly Patch	Video Organizes Paper Given that most offices are likely to generate plenty of paper documents for the foreseeable future, researchers are devising ways to use computers to track and organize printed materials.
Technology Research News January 12, 2005 Eric Smalley	Conversations Control Computers Researchers are aiming to decrease day-to-day data entry and to augment users' memories with a method that allows handheld computers to harvest keywords from conversations and make use of relevant information without interrupting the personal interactions.
Technology Research News January 12, 2005 Kimberly Patch	DNA Scheme Builds Computers Researchers have devised a pair of computer architectures that would be built from self-assembling DNA.
Technology Research News January 12, 2005	A Short History of the Computer The first general purpose electronic computer appeared more than half a century ago.
Technology Research News January 12, 2005	Copy-and-Paste Goes Natural Researchers have built a tool that uses natural language parsing techniques to reduce the formatting that must be done when text is copied from one application, like email, and pasted into another, like an address book.
Technology Research News January 12, 2005	RNA Tiles Form Nanopatterns Researchers have developed a method of coaxing artificial RNA molecules to self-assemble into specific shapes, much like a jigsaw puzzle automatically assembling. The structures could eventually be used as templates for nanochips, nanocircuits and nanocrystals
Technology Research News January 12, 2005	Input Device Tracks Muscle Tremors Natural muscle tremor must be compensated for in input devices like joysticks and surgical tools. Researchers are looking to treat muscle tremor as an input mechanism rather than something that must be filtered out.
Technology Research News January 12, 2005	Nano Gas Turbine Designed One especially useful component of a microscopic machine would be a motor. Researchers have worked out how a nanoscale gas turbine made from nanotubes would work.
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