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		<title>Apple, the &#8220;latest creation” and PA Semi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well the invitations have been mailed, the bloggers have blogged and the number crunchers have crunched. We are a week away from Apple’s January 27th event and the tablet anticipation appears to coming to a head.  In the end some of the more intriguing reading surrounds the invitation itself.  Who can decode the spray paint [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Willard Boyle, the Nobel prize and patentable subject matter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Receipt of a Nobel prize for some portion of your life’s work and most likely passion is an undeniably large accomplishment.  It is probably the pinnacle of recognition for your contribution to the body intellect.  It is of course also a source of national pride for the country from which the recipient was born.  This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gettingtechnologyright.com/materials-matters/willard-boyle-the-nobel-prize-and-patentable-subject-matter/</link>
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		<title>Capstone, the auto-turbine and the case for liquid fuels</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The historical, gee-whiz notion of the auto-turbine might include the screaming Batmobile, including afterburner, of the original Batman series or the Thrust SSC, a Rolls Royce Spey powered car that set the land speed record in the Mojave dessert.  While the turbine considered here has slightly less icandy appeal, it does present a plausible way [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gettingtechnologyright.com/materials-matters/capstone-the-auto-turbine-and-the-case-for-liquid-fuels/</link>
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		<title>Apple :  the not “too sexy” technology developments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[May 12, 2009
Recent ads have presented an apparent price difference between Apple and PC laptops.  Phrases like “too sexy” or “too cool” are used with inference that this is an appropriate assessment of Apple offerings.  There is no denying the effort Apple puts into design.  However, only considering design when comparing prices, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gettingtechnologyright.com/materials-matters/apple-the-not-%e2%80%9ctoo-sexy%e2%80%9d-technology-developments/</link>
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		<title>thermoelectrics: was that Intel as the assignee?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[March 26, 2009
We last posted an article about thermoelectrics in January 2008.  Since then thermoelectrics have continued to be an area of great interest, as the technologies develop and their utility is further demonstrated.  A case in point is this recent abstract from Nature that discusses advances in superlattice-based structures.  It was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gettingtechnologyright.com/materials-matters/late-march-09-thermoelectrics-was-that-intel-as-the-assignee/</link>
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		<title>Bio-mass : will that be filtering, pyrolysis or gasification?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[March 9, 2009
“Pratt &#38; Whitney Rocketdyne and Zero Emission Energy Plants, Inc. Sign Gasification Licensing Agreement”,
“Vegawatt plugs in grease-fired restaurant generator”, and 
“Pratt &#38; Whitney Rocketdyne and AERI Collaborate to Develop Gasification Technology”;
are but three headlines that have appeared over the last several months regarding systems and/ or methods for processing a carbon-containing feedstock into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gettingtechnologyright.com/materials-matters/bio-mass-will-that-be-filtering-pyrolysis-or-gasification/</link>
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		<title>concentrating photovoltaics: coming of age?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[October 24, 2008
A recent edition of Barron’s Online featured an article on Emcore and its Concentrating Photovoltaic(CPV) technology.  On August 13th OPEL International announced that its CPV technology received a strong reception at Canaccord Adams&#8217; 28th Annual Growth Conference.  This latter release went on to say that while CPV technology is not new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gettingtechnologyright.com/materials-matters/concentrating-photovoltaics-coming-of-age/</link>
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		<title>to wet or not to wet &#8211; GE&#8217;s metal wettability work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[October 17, 2008
On October 15th   MIT’s Technology Review published an interesting article entitled “Water-Repelling Metals”.  The article introduces GE developments around an anti-fouling metal surface and highlights a whole host of applications that might benefit.  It is noted here that these are not niche applications.  Rather they represent a spectrum [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gettingtechnologyright.com/materials-matters/october-08-to-wet-or-not-to-wet-ges-metal-wettability-work/</link>
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		<title>Turbines &#8211; A Different Spin on Solar Energy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[August 21, 2008
On July 29, 2008 Capstone Turbine announced the receipt of an order from Israel based HelioFocus for the modification and development of a C65 microturbine to operate on solar energy.  While much of the investment community and press in general is focused on the development and implementation of photovoltaic (PV) based solar [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gettingtechnologyright.com/materials-matters/turbines-a-different-spin-on-solar-energy/</link>
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		<title>Numonyx &#8211; Was that PCM or PCRAM?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[April 3, 2008
On March 31st the Intel/ STMicroelectronics joint venture Numonyx emerged as an independent company.  While the first priority of Numonyx will be the inherited Flash businesses its phase change memory efforts did receive considerable editorial space.  The various articles were a bit fuzzy around what phase change memory will and will [...]]]></description>
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