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CAN STE M C E LL S C I E N C E S U RVIVE? p44 UnPhoGPS ve ne ile s d p7 9 MIT’s Magazine of Innovation 1 Disc, 100 Movies 3-D storage will blow open electronics, media, and archives. By Gregory T. Huang p64 Why Apple Chose Intel A prototype of a clear holographic disc holding 300 gigabytes of data By Michael Fitzgerald p42 Latest Innovations from the Labs $4.99US $6.99CAN 09 By the editors p83 Who’s the Best? R+D Scorecard 2005 By the editors p50 0 09281 01308 SEPTEMBER 2005 USA $4.99 • CANADA $6.99 www.technologyreview.com 2 2 1 ,-2 (312 2&# "# 32 -$ ,#5 ! 0 32 -$ ,#5 ! 2#%-07 #631 #,%',##01 & 4# !-+ ',#" 2&# 220' 32#1 -$ *36307 1#" , 5'2& 2&# 0#+ 0) *# $3#* #!-,-+7 ," *-5 #+'11'-,1 2& 2 -,*7 &7 0'" 2#!&,-*-%7 ! , .0-4'"# &# 0#13*2 '1 4#&'!*# 2& 2 -$$#01 7-3 2&# #12 -$ -2& 5'2&-32 1)',% 7-3 2- 1 !0'8 !# ,72&',% #,%',# "#*'4#01 2&# .-5#0 -$ 5&'*# .0-"3!',% -,*7 $0 !2'-, -$ 2&# #+'11'-,1 11-!' 2#" 5'2& 12 ," 0" #2 2&'1 &7 0'" '1 *1- #4#07 ',!& #631 1. 0',% ,-2&',% ', 2&# 5 7 -$ 7-30 !-+$-021 ," !-,4#,'#,!#1 )',% '2 5& 2 + 7 ',"##" # 2&# 8 012 4#&'!*# -$ '21 )'," ,# 2& 2 20# 21 7-3 ," 2&# 5-0*" 7-3 *'4# ', 5'2& #/3 * 0#1.#!2 - *# 0, +-0# -32 -30 .3013'2 -$ .#0$#!2'-, .*# 1# 4'1'2 31 -,*',# 2 *#631 !-+ 9 #631 Contents 8 Volume 108, Number 9 Contributors 10 People and Organizations Index 14 From the Editor On mesh networking 16 Letters Your thoughts on archiving White House data, obesity, digital property, and more Holographic Memory Want to keep a hundred movies on a single disc? Holographic memory, which stores data in three dimensions, is r