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...light bulb that flashed above Shuji Nakamura's head in 1993 to signal a brilliant new idea was, quite literally, blue. After four years of study, the senior researcher at tiny Nichia Chemical Industries, a company in southeastern Japan, had created a little azure beam that would revolutionize the global electronics industry. Nakamura's blue light-emitting diode was the missing link needed to produce cheap, energy-saving illumination in everything from traffic lights to big-screen TVs; it also promised greatly expanded storage capacity on digital video discs...
...Nakamura profited hardly at all from his pioneering work. Nichia, which holds the rights to Nakamura's invention, upped his income to $140,000--much less than a top corporate scientist in the U.S. makes. A couple of years later, when the researcher had refined his blue beam, Nakamura was told that his initial raise more than covered any future innovations. Says the 45-year-old electrical engineer: "If I had made the same discovery in the U.S., I would have got a $1 million bonus." Disenchanted, Nakamura left Nichia last December for a professorship at the University of California...
...guide itself into a suicidal collision with the warhead. It will be receiving guidance from far below as early-warning radar systems detect the incoming warhead. These systems hand off data to a so-called X-band radar system based on Kwajalein, which stabs the sky with a narrow beam of electronic pulses. The X-band's shorter wavelengths and advanced signal-processing capabilities give it the power to "draw" a clear image of the incoming warheads and surrounding decoys from up to 1,000 miles away. (Ultimately, the system's $500 million X-band radar will be based...
...wait until the night of his big speech to show up. He'll make a surprise appearance each of the first three nights to generate excitement, but convention goers will have to guess the venue. The Liberty Bell, perhaps? Technowizards are trying to find a way to beam COLIN POWELL into the hall from an outside location. One idea (ours): Take advantage of ABC's reported decision to show the convention only during halftime of Monday Night Football by putting Powell, complete with headset, in the booth with new man Dennis Miller...
Finally, I'd pay extra for an onboard supercomputer able to sense a parking spot 10 blocks away and beam an electronic force field there to save it until I arrived. Whoops, this just in: experts now forecast that by the year 2025 there won't be any parking spots. Drat! There goes the age-old dream of a handheld, Star Wars-based, in-car parking-meter jamming device...