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January 2012 Issue

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EUV Faces Its Most Critical Test

2012 will be the make-or-break year for extreme ultraviolet lithography

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Private Spaceflight: Up, Up, and Away

This year, commercial spaceflight will really take off

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Words with Friends: Not Your Parents’ Scrabble

Words With Friends reinvents a 65-year-old board game for the iPhone era

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January 2012 Issue

IEEE Spectrum’s prediction of the tech that will make news this year

In 2012, 3-D chips will help extend Moore’s Law—and move beyond it

In 2012, 3-D printing technology will go from prototyping to production

2012 could mark the arrival of utility-scale battery storage

In 2012, electrodes will bring eyesight to the blind

2012 will test the feasibility of EV charging stations

2012 will be the make-or-break year for extreme ultraviolet lithography

In 2012, China’s chips will power the Dawning 6000

Hundreds of telecoms will invest in 4G LTE networks in 2012

In 2012, a new exoplanet hunter will look for worlds like our own

This year, commercial spaceflight will really take off

The 2012 release of Windows 8 will show whether Microsoft can surf the tablet tidal wave

In 2012, there will finally be a first-rate LED bulb you can afford

Full battery-electric and hybrid-electric plug-in vehicles will start hitting the streets in significant numbers later this year

This year, the Ekso Bionics exoskeleton for paraplegics hits the market

A new product suite for tablets is just the start of Adobe’s move from desktops to clouds

Daniel Yergin’s new book is a logical successor to earlier ones on national security and energy policy

Relatively cheap chip hits 1.1 THz, could make terahertz scanners and other devices practical

Researchers advance thin-film energy harvesters

No danger from water, but marine sediments are the big question

Ohm’s Law is extended to the atomic level, and Moore’s Law may get a reprieve

Electric flight takes on the final frontier

Circuits could be woven from conductive and semiconducting natural fibers

The world’s economy depends on innovation rates that are faster than they were for most of human history—and faster than they are today

A study of 10 million game simulations finds the true worth of Scrabble tiles

Words With Friends reinvents a 65-year-old board game for the iPhone era

Kim Swift set out to design fun games that make her laugh

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