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...Trading Spaces, the golden rule keeps things friendly. But in a new TLC spin-off, Home Free, viewers decide which couple best redesigns a neighbor's home. The winners get their mortgage paid...
...fantasy. "It is beyond any foreseeable technology to teleport a physical object like a pen, much less a person," says Gisin. He doesn't rule out, in the far future, the teleportation of a molecule. In the immediate future, there are other applications: last year, for example, a spin-off company of Gisin's lab called ID Quantique developed a quantum key that allows for communication--say, transactions between banks--that is completely inoculated against code-breaking attacks. Because the information is being transported in an unconventional way, it's impossible to track. The technology is being considered...
...walk on the Red Planet, our biggest shift will have to be a philosophical one. Both NASA and the politicians who keep it funded have spent more than 40 years explaining why the agency exists at all, justifying the expense with a lot of talk about science and spin-offs and educational dividends. They're telling the truth when they make those claims, but only some of it. People don't hold parades for a manufacturing spin-off, and they don't muffle their drums and lower their flags when an educational program dies. They do that for astronauts...
...Would we have these computers if not for the moon race? Don't forget, the integrated circuit came from our first trip. How much of our economy depends on that spin-off? How much will we learn about living on earth by learning to live on the moon? Paul Dowty Parker, Colo...
...dessert topping! Get Lipson going, and the 36-year-old co-founder and president of Imagen will gush about how her product can distinguish faces in a crowd, recommend makeup, diagnose diseases and spot imperfections on a circuit board. What Lipson's six-year-old company--a spin-off of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.)--really does is make software that can find subtle similarities and differences in images of, well, just about anything. Imagen, based in Cambridge, Mass., is part of a group of this year's World Economic Forum Technology Pioneers. Collectively they could be called...