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CellScope

CellScope

A group of doctors and biophysicists at the University of California have built a device that could mean better medical care at home and in underdeveloped countries. CellScope is a cellphone that serves as a medical microscope.

TechShop

TechShop

When you need to make copies, you go to a copy shop. When you need to make a picture frame, you go to a frame shop. But where do you go when you need to make the next brilliant invention? Now, there's the TechShop.

Babbage Difference Engine

Babbage Difference Engine

It's the first step in computing. The Babbage Difference Engine was the first digital computer ever designed. It weighs nearly 5 tons and doesn't use electricity. See it Now.

LED Revolution

LED Revolution

The next step in lamps isn't a bulb; it's a glowing microchip. And it's revolutionizing everything from flashlights to chandeliers, from jewelry to knitting needles, and even brooms. To see how much LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes) have affected your life, look no farther than the nearest intersection...

Phenomoscope

Phenomoscope

It's the next step in microscopes, the iPod of science. It is only the size of a PC, yet it's more powerful than anything else that will fit on a desktop, and for less than 0,000. A few individuals are buying them to one-up their friends who have only a plasma TV! We begin with the foot of a fr...

Libraries and Book Scanning

Libraries and Book Scanning

You've heard how publishers and authors are upset with widely publicized efforts to scan every book. You would think that libraries would be in their corner. After all, the more you can read at home, the less you will need to trudge down to a building halfway across town. Instead, libraries are em...

 
Good Enough
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What's wrong with this picture? If you don't notice,
you are a member of the Good Enough Generation.

It’s a thoroughly modern irony.

As technology delivers ever-sharper pictures and sound, you and I settle for audio and video that's just good enough. Say what you want about all your digital media players, but our parents were more demanding consumers of media than we are.

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Fewer biopsies and faster MRIsThat's the promise of a new technique developed by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley.

Das (Power) Boot

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Microscope at the End of the Rainbow

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LED microscopes outshine white light. We're always telling you that the most exciting advances arise when unrelated disciplines intersect, often by chance. When a biologist, a...

New 3D Technology Wows Hollywood

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3D is tres chic in 3 ways for Hollywood. And we've got a new podcast explaining how it works and what you can expect in the...

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