March 2007 Feature Articles

Are You Aware?

Mom vs. Bomb

One engineer's robots are saving lives in war zones

Protecting The Big Easy From The Next Big One

U.S. Army engineers face New Orleans dilemma

Hooray for the Patent Troll!

By creating market liquidity, "trolls" provide a valuable service to inventors

Benedetto Vigna: The Man Behind the Chip Behind the Wii

The designer of the MEMS motion sensor in Nintendo's fabulous game tells how he got into micromachining and where he's taking it next

Do-It-Yourself RFID

RFID inside

The murky ethics of implanted chips

Planet Hunters Wanted

Some spare processor cycles would be nice, too

Ontario Quits Coal

In the province's energy plans, Kyoto looms large

Q&A With: Sudhinder Thakur

This leading executive in India's civilian nuclear power program tells us that his country's recent agreement with the United States will help in a plan to use thorium as a fuel

AT&T's Attic

Locked away in a suburban New Jersey warehouse, a quirky archive preserves funky but priceless relics of the electronic age

Forum: Our Readers Write

Beyond Blue

Ultraviolet lasers and LEDs made from zinc oxide are on their way

What Is It?

In our wanderings through the AT&T Archives, we came across some truly weird and mysterious artifacts. See if you can figure out what they are

...And More Forum

A New Blue Laser

Two groups have just announced a new kind of solid-state laser that emits bright blue-violet light, raising hopes of getting green

The Books That Made A Difference

IEEE Spectrum asked 14 leading technologists to name the novel that influenced them the most. You'll be surprised at how often they agreed.