2008 Gadget Guide

ScientificAmerican.com presents some of this year's most exciting high-tech toys as well as gadgets to make the planet greener and inventions designed to deliver the most basic needs to developing countries

 
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Spying on the Spies [Slide Show]
State Department shows off Cold War-era electronic eavesdropping gadgets

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Spy Toys
With gadgets like these to work with, no wonder Julia Child quit the spy game

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Positive Power of Gadgets
Tech award winners focus on putting gadgetry to good use worldwide

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Water Filtration System in a Straw
LifeStraw makes previously contaminated water drinkable by removing bacteria and viruses

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Gadget Calculates Carbon Footprint
A student competition-winning project automatically calculates your carbon footprint while traveling

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Video: CES: SciAm Sits Down with Bill Gates
At the beginning of '07 Bill Gates wrote an article for Scientific American about our robot-filled future. We got a chance to follow up with him on that vision at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show.

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Video: CES: Bill Gates Gives SciAm a Personal Tour of Surface
Microsoft Surface is a touch-sensitive technology that is part of Microsoft's new push to give computers more natural interfaces. Gates sat down and gave Scientific American a tour.

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Gadget Envy
All-in-one cell phones can do just about anything

 

 

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20 Gadgets You Want
Popular applications of science and technology for you to give and get

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20 Gadgets We Love
Objects of desire for folks who appreciate the application of science to the problem of cool

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Buying Green: 7 Ecofriendly Products
SciAm takes a look at new products, from environmentally friendly suede jackets to biodegradable toilet paper

 
 

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