Newswise — The editors of IEEE Spectrum selected and reviewed ten projects--five that use semiconductor technologies and software in brilliant ways, and five that missed the target. There's also an opportunity for readers to cast online ballots for their preferred winners in commercial and humanitarian categories. In addition, readers can go online to pick winners and losers from a second group of projects. For pungent comments on the current winners and losers, look for sidebar comments by technology watchers C. Gordon Bell, T.J. Rodgers, and Nick Tredennick.
"Nothing But Net" Britain switches its entire phone network to the Internet Protocol, a complete telecommunications makeover.
"Radio Revolutionaries" A Massachusetts company reinvents the cellular base station.
"The Omnivorous Engine" This Brazilian fuel-control system lets cars run on gasoline, ethanol, and natural gas.
"Cure for the Multicore Blues" Michael McCool has the prescription for programmers paralyzed by parallel processing.
"Masters of Memory" Innovative Silicon, a Swiss firm, crams five megabytes of RAM into the space of one.
"Corn-o-copia" Extravagant subsidies and low coal prices have made for some strange ethanol projects.
"Grounded" A "roadable aircraft" isn't likely to make happy landings.
"Not Ready to Wear" Hardly the next big thing in textiles, Lumalive is a power-sucking LED display.
"Tongue Vision" There's a fuzzy outlook for this unpalatable technology meant to assist blind people.
"What's the Latin for 'Delusional'?" Google has nothing to fear from Quaero, the Franco-German search engine.
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