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2014 4 Spectrum Contents | Zoom in | Zoom outFor navigation instructions please click here Search Issue | Next Page CELLULAR TELEPHONY AN IMPLANTABLE THE MAN WHO MADE WORKINGWITH MUST DIE! OPTICAL SENSOR THE CRYOTRON OCULUSRIFT Steve Perlman says This microlab will How Dudley Buck’s See the new he’s got a better idea get under your skin invention lives on development kit at P. 11 P. 38 P. 44 ____________SPECTRUM.IEEE.ORG FOR THE TECHNOLOGY INSIDER | 04.14 WE TEST DRIVE CHEVY’S BRAWNY CORVETTE STUNNER HONDA’S BRAINY ACCORD HYBRID MERCEDES’S ALMOST AUTONOMOUS CAR PORSCHE’S 608-HP SPEED DEMON Contents | Zoom in | Zoom outFor navigation instructions please click here Search Issue | Next Page qM qMqM Previous Page | Contents | Zoom in | Zoom out | Front Cover | Search Issue | Next Page qMqM Qmags THE WORLD’S NEWSSTAND® LI-ION BATTERY PACK: 8IQTIVEXYVI½IPHMREFEXXIV]TEGO8LI QSHIPMRGPYHIWELMKL½HIPMX]IPIGXVSGLIQMGEPQSHIPSJXLIFEXXIVMIW GSYTPIHXSEXLIVQEPEREP]WMWJSVXLIFEXXIVMIWERHXLIGSQTSRIRXW MRXLIFEXXIV]TEGOERHXLI¾YMH¾S[MRXLIGSSPMRKGLERRIPW VERIFY AND OPTIMIZE YOUR DESIGNS WITH COMSOL MULTIPHYSICS ® Multiphysics tools let you build simulations that accurately replicate the important characteristics of your designs. 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Brock & Brian Rosen On the Cover Illustration for IEEE Spectrum by Chris LaBrooy GM GM __________SPECTRUM.IEEE.ORG | INTERNATIONAL | APR 2014 | 01 qM qMqM Previous Page | Contents | Zoom in | Zoom out | Front Cover | Search Issue | Next Page qMqM Qmags THE WORLD’S NEWSSTAND® qM qMqM Previous Page | Contents | Zoom in | Zoom out | Front Cover | Search Issue | Next Page qMqM Qmags THE WORLD’S NEWSSTAND® Infi nite Designs, One Platform with the only complete system design environment NI LabVIEW is the only comprehensive development environment with the LabVIEW system unprecedented hardware integration and wide-ranging compatibility you need to meet design software offers unrivaled hardware any measurement and control application challenge. 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The Video Visionary Spectral Lines The Self-Driving Car Artemis Networks says its tech could Patrick Griffis’s mission is to To better serve readers wanting That’s Already Here send data capacity through the roof. convince an entire industry to association news, IEEE Spectrum Take a tour of the self-driving By Ariel Bleicher change its ways. By Susan Karlin launched The Institute in 1977, systems that are already a newspaper covering all things available in vehicles you 13 Tech Tracks Mystery Methane 23 Review: Las Vegas’s Museum IEEE. By Kathy Kowalenko Pretz can buy—for a price. Find out 14 Five Imaging Start-ups to Watch of the A-bomb Age how they work, what’s next, 16 Biochip vs. Superbug 25 Hands On: An Acoustic Delay- 04 Back Story and how they’ll only get better 18 The Big Picture Line Memory 06 Contributors at making driving easier, safer, 64 Dataflow: Predicting Virality 27 Technically Speaking smarter, and less boring. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES Tech Insider / Webinars The Institute Available at spectrum.ieee.org/webinar Available 07 April at theinstitute.ieee.org New Features for Microwave, RF and Optical TRANSPORTATION ELECTRIFICATION This special Simulation in CST Studio Suite 2014—1 April issue of The Institute delves into the technologies behind electrified New Features for EDA/EMC Simulation in transportation, how electric components are making even today’s CST Studio Suite 2014—2 April gasoline-powered cars safer and more efficient, and how electric New Features for Low-Frequency Simulation batteries and fuel cells will make hydrogen-powered vehicles possible. in CST Studio Suite 2014—3 April This edition also includes IEEE products, conferences, and standards Smart Materials With COMSOL Multiphysics—10 April that are helping electric vehicles get even more traction. 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