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...BlazePhotonics Private company based in Bath, England CEO: Alan Lamb What it does: Makes photonic crystal fibers Why it is hot: The unconventional structure of BlazePhotonics' fibers gives them potential to outperform conventional fibers in telecom, sensor and medical applications www.blazephotonics.com...
...swept Japan three years ago, as Tokyo teenagers flocked to video arcades to try their feet on a sensor pad that rated their hottest dance moves against a machine. Now, DDR, dubbed "karaoke for the feet," is electrifying the U.S., and no one is more entranced than Aldea, a 29-year-old data programmer whose alter ego is a cool groover named 8-ball. Aldea has been jamming to DDR for a year now, and he loves how his agile antics draw crowds at San Francisco's Metreon super-entertainment complex. "This is all about performing," he says...
...Chinese challenge over Hainan with deftness and aplomb - tough on the basics, creative on the fine line between "regret" and "apology." The troops are home; the spy plane that was almost decapitated by a hotshot Chinese pilot will follow - after the Chinese have taken apart every radar, sensor and computer inside. But this was neither the beginning nor the end of the great U.S.-Chinese duel that will dominate 21st century diplomacy as did the Soviet-American contest in the 20th. For the past decade or so, Beijing has been telling Washington: "The Western Pacific is our lake, move over...
...things that annoy people most about their PC's mouse are the trackball (or "gunk collector") and the cord (too long or too short yet always in the way). The solution? Logitech's Cordless MouseMan Optical ($75), on sale at logitech.com Having traded in the trackball for an optical sensor, this wireless bionic wonder has only one flaw: an insatiable hunger for AA batteries...
...Benz's own Linguatronic system. Snarl-up warnings are piped in by German firm Tegaron. Italian on-board telecoms company Viasat foresees its customers shopping or downloading music while stuck in traffic jams. Carmakers call it "telematics" - interacting with services by means of text, buttons, touch screens, voice or sensors while driving. Is it a dream come true (Time in 1944 reported on an amphibious futuristic auto that let you "plug in the two-way radio to order your dinner ahead"), or an attempt to stand out from the pack? Telematics can make driving easier and safer: voice activation means...