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BusinessWeek March 24, 2011 Olga Kharif	Eye-Tracking Technology for the Masses Swedish engineer John Elvesjo is developing a device that lets users control computers just by looking at them.
Fast Company April 1, 2011 Rachel Z. Arndt	Fast Talk: Cynthia Breazeal on Teaching Robots The director of MIT's Personal Robots Group uses crowdsourced data to teach robots about human behavior.
Fast Company April 1, 2011 Rachel Z. Arndt	David Ferrucci on Watson, the Jeopardy Supercomputer The principal investigator for IBM's DeepQA/Watson project led the creation of the Jeopardy-playing robot, Watson. The robot is built on data-analysis technology that could have applications in myriad sectors.
Fast Company April 1, 2011 Rachel Z. Arndt	Timothy Gifford and Anjana Bhat on Using Robots to Help Autistic Children Robots address some of the deficits we know are present in children with autism, especially coordination and social problems.
Fast Company April 1, 2011 Rachel Z. Arndt	Chris Jones on Robot Interaction Chris Jones, a research program manager at iRobot, studies how to make robots interact naturally in human environments.
Fast Company April 1, 2011 Rachel Z. Arndt	Manuela Veloso on Robot Companions The professor of computer science and member of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University is turning robots from joystick-operated poles on wheels into "CoBots" -- intelligent companions that can navigate and move.
Chemistry World March 23, 2011	Battery Turns Entropy Into Electricity US researchers have developed a battery that generates power from that entropy difference.
Chemistry World March 22, 2011 Amaya Camara-Campos	Microfluidics to diagnose sleeping sickness Jonas Tegenfeldt from the University of Lund developed a microfluidic device that separates the parasites in this disease from the blood cells using their shape, because parasites and red blood cells are very difficult to separate by size.
Chemistry World March 21, 2011 James Urquhart	Seeing clearly with silicone School children in developing countries who have poor vision could soon see clearly thanks to cheap self-adjustable glasses that use silicone fluid to control the lens power.
Chemistry World March 18, 2011 Rebecca Brodie	Simple salt removal to get fresh water Scientists in the US have developed a membrane-free, solvent extraction method to remove salt from seawater that works at low temperatures.
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