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Those who stayed behind contended with typical Boston chill wind and rain at the Geiger Trophy, hosted by MIT. The regatta put sailors in four divisions launching Flying Juniors, Rhodes-19s, and single- and double-handed Tech dinghies. Harvard’s compliment finished sixth of six, a slight four points behind...
Harvard researchers have developed a breakthrough nanowire technology integrated into high-tech electronic circuits—which, among other things, could help manufacturers significantly decrease cell phone size...
Lieber and Ham’s advanced technology combines the high-tech performance of nanowires with an innovative, low-cost production process that uses common materials such as glass or plastic...
...exhibition is like a toy store for grownups. The several thousand products on display range from such low-tech items as a concrete bunker and a machine for filling sandbags at high speed to a nonlethal directed-energy weapon that can heat a human body to an unbearable temperature and an "acoustic sniper finder" that uses eight microphones to locate an enemy shooter based on the sound from his rifle shot...
...Machida's strategy of focusing on businesses in which the company has a significant edge is surprisingly rare in corporate Japan, where a bias toward bulking up still reigns. Says Gerhard Fasol, president of Eurotechnology Japan, a tech consultancy in Tokyo: "The Toshibas and Hitachis of this world are in about 20 or 30 different industry areas. There is no focus." Even in secondary business lines, Sharp tries to develop what it calls "one-of-a-kind" products. A recent example: the new Healsio oven that reduces fat and salt content by cooking with superheated steam. The oven...