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...three at once. With the new Foveon X3 technology, however, three sensors are stacked on top of one another, so that each pixel absorbs the full color spectrum. Result: a 3.5-megapixel camera using Foveon technology will produce images as clear as today's 7 MP models. INVENTOR Richard Merrill, Foveon AVAILABILITY December 2002 TO LEARN MORE www.foveon.com...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going Digital | 11/18/2002 | See Source »

...Alexis (Angela Sperrazza ’04), says he’s going nowhere. “You’re a super hero comic book rock star by night, a victim of the world by day,” she says. Brent’s best friend, an inventor named Ty (Jay Chaffin ’06), first appears on stage recounting a religious experience on the toilet. Perlman, who is also a Crimson editor, describes Ty as a “cutting edge QVC media mogul, always inventing another crowd-pleasing novelty item.” His invention...

Author: By Alexandra W. Soderberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: sex, lies, and donkeys | 11/7/2002 | See Source »

DIED. NILS BOHLIN, 82, Swedish seat-belt inventor, who in 1959 developed the harness that today is standard equipment; in Transas, Sweden. His safety belt supports the upper and lower parts of the body with one continuous strap fastened by a buckle placed on the side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Oct. 7, 2002 | 10/7/2002 | See Source »

DIED. UZI GAL, 79, Israeli inventor of the Uzi submachine gun; in Philadelphia. He let his name be used for the gun only after the manufacturer insisted; Uzi is the abbreviation for the Hebrew phrase "God is my might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Sep. 23, 2002 | 9/23/2002 | See Source »

These molecular structures are called fullerenes, or buckyballs, in honor of the American architect and inventor Buckminster Fuller. Smalley sits on the board of C-Sixty, a biotech company that builds fullerenes into molecules that researchers hope will attach to and deactivate HIV molecules and blow up cancer cells on cue. "Buckyballs are not quite like nanosubmarines that target deadly diseases"--as seen in the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage--"but because of their size and shape, they are well suited for drug discovery," says Stephen Wilson, co-founder of C-Sixty, based in Houston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nanotechnology: Very small Business | 9/23/2002 | See Source »

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