A Surge in Small Cell Sites
Mini cellular base stations will blanket urban hot zones and rural dead zones
January 2013
Gadgets | Cover Story
Google Gets in Your Face
Google Glass offers a slightly augmented version of reality
By Elise AckermanFeatures
Carbon-Fiber Cars
BMW will introduce the first affordable cars made with superlight carbon composites
Gaia's Mission to Map the Milky Way
The European Space Agency project will change how astronomers view our galaxy
Harvard’s Alternative to Google Books
Universities launch a digital public library
IBM’s Watson Goes to Med School
This AI program mastered “Jeopardy!” Next up, oncology
Intel Inside…Your Smartphone
With Silvermont, the chip giant may finally get a grip on the mobile market
Lighter, Brighter Displays
Electrowetting combines the best of LCD and E Ink
OLED TV Arrives
New displays will be big, bright, fast, and thin—but not cheap
The Great Canal of China
Bringing Water to the Thirsty North
Update
Could Fusion Clean Up Nuclear Waste?
Physicists propose a marriage of fusion and fission reactors that could save both technologies
Foundries Rush 3-D Transistors
Nearly two years after Intel, the world's leading foundries scramble to get FinFETs into the hands of chip designers
Japan’s Digital Grid Scheme
Japanese consortium aims to transform the country’s centralized grid into islands of interconnected cells
Opinion
Our Annual Crystal Ball Issue
Spectrum previews the tech news of 2013—and saves you the embarrassment of being caught off guard
Who Can Hold 2 Billion Transistors in His Head at Once?
It’s impossible to do engineering anymore without using mostly other people’s knowledge
Departments
Adrian Cheok: Making a Huggable Internet
An inventor builds gear to transmit touches, tastes, and more
Bandwidth Bottleneck
The hardware at the heart of the Internet isn’t fast enough
Build Your Own Google Glass
A wearable computer that displays information and records video
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