Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1999 > Technology New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   The Opposite of Attraction - Researchers at Penn discover evidence of materials with opposite charges that repel each other instead of attract. They can build themselves into nifty contraptions, too. By Kristen Philipkoski [Wired News]   The Patch for Low Libido - A skin patch that delivers testosterone may work on women as well as men. A study shows that women suffering from low sex drive after having hysterectomies were helped by the patch. [Wired News]   The Phone on a Chip - Lucent's five-in-one microprocessor puts Internet telephony within reach of small- to mid-sized businesses. The tiny chip makes its debut this week at NetWorld+Interop. [Wired News]   The Power of Plastic - A team of NASA scientists develops plastic muscles for an upcoming space mission. The project could be a prototype for the first bionic limb. [Wired News]   The Shuttle "Beast" Grows Up - Is the shuttle an anxious adolescent ready to take on the world, or a mid-life crisis adult out shopping for a Ferrari? Space experts debate where the shuttle goes from here. Kristen Philipkoski reports from Mountain View, California. [Wired News]   The Skinny on Skin Grafts - A new method of creating skin from living human cells may one day replace the painful and time-consuming therapy currently in use in most hospitals. By Kristen Philipkoski. [Wired News]   The Smart Pump: Insulin Inside - A chip-based, artificial pancreas may one day make life easier for millions of insulin-dependent diabetics. By Lindsey Arent. [Wired News]   The Software That Suits You - Clothes make the man, and technology makes the clothes. Lasers replace the tape measure to produce perfectly tailored menswear. Steve Kettmann reports from Berlin. [Wired News]   The Super Bowl Stripe - There's the coach's clicker, the telestrator, and the Fox box. Now, there's the first-down line. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   The Super-Duper Hypercomputer - An obscure Utah company introduces Hal: a computer about the size of most PCs, but a blazing 60,000 times faster. Skeptics abound. By Christopher Jones. [Wired News]   The Test-Tube Ovary - A woman who investigated her condition online has an ovarian transplant -- a procedure that, if successful, could restore fertility to women who have lost their reproductive organs. [Wired News]   The Tiniest Motor Ever - The first molecular motors will help scientists finally understand what makes natural biological motors tick. On the horizon are machines of just a few atoms, even new motors for humans. By Kristen Philipkoski. [Wired News]   The Web's New Graffiti? - Users can "draw a mustache" on any Web page with the new Third Voice utility. Not everyone is happy about the free-speech enabler. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   The Wimp Factor: It's Genetic - Johns Hopkins researchers say a gene variation decides whether pain makes you scream or if you stoically tough it out. By Kristen Philipkoski. [Wired News]   The World in Your Palm - 3Com and America Online pair up to deliver AOL email to Palm handhelds, and a Palm/pager combo offers an alternative to wireless modems for email and information access. John Gartner reports from New York. [Wired News]   The World's Smallest Server - It's the size of a match-head and cost only 49 cents to build, but it may not be quite ready to handle an e-commerce site yet. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]   Thieves Hit Phone Center - Armed robbers break into a telephone-switching center in Las Vegas. Their peculiar haul: telephone-switching gear. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   Thin Within - An American Medical Association study indicates that bulimia may have physiological, as well as psychological, roots. [Wired News]   Think Different About Upgrading - Apple jimmied its iMac-looking G3s to make them incapable of upgrading to G4 technology. Older Macs still have a future, but owners of new G3s are peeved. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]   Thinking Like a Serial Killer - Law enforcement officers in the Pacific Northwest turn to artificial intelligence for help hunting down serial murderers and rapists. By Vince Beiser. [Wired News]     [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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