Technology
2003

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• CIA Gadget Museum Showcase Robot Fish, Pigeon Camera, Tiger Dropping Microphone -  AP 26dec03
• Worst Technology of 2003: Diebold Election Systems -  Fortune 22dec03
• California DNA Plan Draws Ire of Civil Libertarians: Ballot Measure to Operate the Largest DNA Database in US -  Reuters 22dec03
• Lost? Hiding? Your Cellphone Is Keeping Tabs -  NY Times 21dec03
• The Year in Technology, by the Numbers -  Wall Street Journal 10dec03
• The SAFETY Act of 2002: Does Its Decision to Protect Antiterrorism Technologies From Tort Lawsuits Make Sense? - Findlaw.com 8dec03
• Big Brother Latest: Your Phone can be used to track you down -  The Observer (UK) 7dec03
• Devices that Read Human Thought now Possible: Brain Implants Could Help Severely Disabled -  SF Chronicle 10nov03
• Cart 54, Where Are You? The Tracking System Knows -  NY Times 30oct03
• DNA to be Added to Chinese Passport - Beijing Star Daily 28oct03
• Toxic Molecules Threat from Nanotechnology, Expert Claims -  The Scotsman 20oct03
• RFID: City Library Adopts Controversial RFID Chips -  Berkeley Daily Planet 10oct2003
• Road Trip for Robots - For the Army  - NY Times 9oct03
• 3G Mobile Signals Cause Nausea, Headache: Survey - Reuters Health 30sep03
• Nanomaterials, Sustainability, and Risk Minimization - Wiesner et al  22sep03
• The Genetically Modified Bomb: Imagine a bomb that only kills Caucasians with red hair. Or short people. Or Arabs. Or Chinese - Common Dreams 10sep03

• Train-Robbing Technology Improves Thieves Cargo Haul on Nation's Railways - AP 4sep03

• Ultra-Clean Low-Swirl Burner (UCLSB): Ultra-Clean Combustion Technology Developed -  The Daily Californian 3sep03

• Transhumanism: Humanity 2.0 -  Wilson Quarterly Autumn 2003 1sep03

• DARPA Bioengineering Program Seeks to Turn Soldiers Into Cyborgs -  Information Clearing House 25aug03

• Federal Labs: High Tech's Hatcheries  Small Times 20aug03

• Farewell My H1-Bs: Indian Tech Workers Depart, Change U.S. - Pacific News Service / Berkeley Daily Planet 19aug03

• Sandia Develops Cognitive Machines -  Sandia National Labs 13aug03

• FDA Approves Souped-Up Wheelchair that Climbs Stairs   - AP 13aug03

• NBIC (nano-bio-info-cogno): The Revolution [in science and technology] Part 1 -  Rachel's 26jun03 - published 12aug03

  • The Revolution [in science and technology] Part 2 -  Rachel's 10jul03 - published 15aug03

• Cray: Supercomputing's New Idea Is Old One  - NY Times 4aug03

• Kalashnikov Gun History -  Pravda 2aug03

• Nano: Rise of the nanomachines - Nature Biotechnology Aug03

• Los Alamos TCP Pipe Hits 8.5 Gbps - Agence France-Presse 25jul03

• Vending Machines Grow Up: Candy Bars And Soda Make Way For Movies, Live Bait - Washington Post 27jul03

• Greenpeace Warns of Pollutants Derived From Nanotechnology -  Wall Street Journal 25jul03

• Implantable Human Tracking Chip Launched: Injected Under Your Skin - AP 21jul03

• GPS: Big Brother Under the Bumper -  Boulder Weekly 18jul03

• Grant Pulls UC Berkeley, World’s Most Powerful Magnet Together - Daily Californian 15jul03

• DNA Profiles Link Marijuana to its Source -  New Scientist 9jul03

• Nanotechnology May Create New Organs - New Scientist 8jul03

• Nano: Microbial Materials: Scientists Co-opt Viruses, Bacteria, and Fungi to Build New Structures-  Science News v.164, n.1 5jul03

• First Gene Chip Available for Personalized Medicine  - Betterhumans.com 2jul03

• Apparatus for Audibly Communicating Speech Using the Radio Frequency Hearing Effect / United States Patent 6,587,729 / O'Loughlin , et al. 1jul2003

• DNA profiles: Police DNA Log Now Has 2 Million Profiles -  The Guardian (UK) 26jun03

• Nano: Rage Against the (Green) Machine  - Wired News 19jun03

• Surgical Robot - Web Advertisement 15jun03

• RFID: Big Brother Comes to Wal-Mart  - NewsWithViews.com 11jun03

• Anything Into Oil: From Turkey Parts to Crude Oil! - The Spirit of Maat 8jun03

• Chicken Catching Machine: Poultry in Motion: With Invention, Chicken Catching Goes High-Tech  - Wall Street Journal 4jun03

• RFID: Wal-Mart Mandates Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) by 2005  - Line56 4jun03

• Cell Phone/EMF: Nerve Cell Damage in Mammalian Brain after Exposure to Microwaves from GSM Mobile Phones Leif G Salford et al. / Environmental Health Perspectives 1jun2003

• Nano: Robotic Houseflies to Take Flight Within Five Years: Intelligence, Surveillance Uses  - Daily Californian 7may03

• Anything Into Oil: Technological savvy could turn 600 million tons of turkey guts and other waste into 4 billion barrels of light Texas crude each year -  Discover 1may03

• Pesticide Robot Soon to Be Released on Market  - Better Farming (Ontario ) May03

• Electric Shock Weapons Could Go Wireless - New Scientist 21may03

• GPS Implant Designed for Humans 'Tested'  - New Scientist 16may03

• EMF: Mobile Phone base Stations and Health - Gunnhild Oftedal / COST 281 Workshop in Dublin, 15may03

• EMF: Brain interactions with RF/microwave fields generated by mobile phones - W Ross Adey / International Encyclopedia of Neuroscience 12may03

• EMF: Electromagnetic fields, the modulation of brain tissue functions  -- A possible paradigm shift in biology - W Ross Adey / International Encyclopedia of Neuroscience 12may03

• Silicon Valley Pins Hopes on Nanotechnology Boom  - SF Chronicle 8may03

• Nanotech Giving Birth to a Whole New Revolution  - SF Chronicle 8may03

• House Moves to Increase Nanotechnology Spending by $2.4 billion -  AP 7may03

• Nano: How to Grab an Atom  - Physical Review Focus 2may03

• Exploring The "Singularity" - The Futurist 1may03

• X-ray Satellite Crashes into Ocean  - New Scientist 30apr03

• Alleged Creation of Perpetual Energy Source Splits Scientific Community - Pravda (Russia) 15apr03

• Tune Out, Turn Off, Drop Offline - Wired 15apr2003

• Oxygen-Absorbing Packets Help Troops  - The Buffalo News (NY) 9apr03

• Nano: Synapse Chip Taps into Brain Chemistry -  New Scientist 24mar03

• RFID: New Technology may Lower Cost of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) - Supply Chain Technology News 28mar03

• World's First Brain Prosthesis Revealed  - New Scientist 12mar03

• Tiny Transmitters Keep Track of Benetton Clothing  - SF Chronicle 12mar03

• DNA molecule provides a computing machine with both data and fuel - (abstract) BENENSON et al / PNAS  4mar03

• Police to Keep DNA Data of Anyone Arrested  - The Guardian Weekly (UK) 3mar03

• How Stain-Repellant Nanofabric is Made: The Fabric of Consumer Reality - Red Herring 1mar03

• RFID: A Radio Chip in Every Consumer Product  - NY Times 25feb03

• An Inventor of the Transistor Has His Moment  - NY Times 24feb03

• China's Largest Container Ship Commences Operations  - People's Daily (Beijing) 25feb03

• Space Junk Increasingly Hitting Shuttles  - AP 6feb03

• Nano: Tiny Particles, Enormous Future  - SF Chronicle 31jan03

• Nano: The Big Down: Atomtech - Technologies Converging at the Nano-scale (Exec Summ) - ETC Group 30jan03

• High-Tech Sunglasses  - SF Chronicle 20jan02

• High-Power Microwave (HPM): America's Ultra-Secret Weapon  - Time 19jan03

• February in Iraq Suits U.S. Troops: Cool days best if hot, heavy gear needed  - SF Chronicle 18jan03

• Cell Phone Towers: Stealth Antennas Try to Blend In  - Wired News 14jan03

• Is That an iPod In Your Pocket?  - Wall Street Journal 15jan03

• Inkjet Printer Promises Industrial Revolution -  New Science 8jan03

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