EMS / 52 2.13.1 Low-Loss, Wide-Bandwith MEMS / 52 2.13.2 StressedMetal MEMS / 53 2.13.3 The Nanoguitar / 55 Storage / 57 2.14.1 Tiny Hard Drive / 57 2.14.2 Optical Storage / 57 2.14.3 Nanoring Memory / 59 2.15 More Efficient Base Stations / 60 2.15.1 Boosting Mobile Phone Range / 62 3. Connections in the Air-Wireless Technologies Wireless LAN "Hotspots" / 64 WLANs to Come / 64 WLAN for Emergency Communications / 65 Smart Brick / 66 Wireless Smart Stuff / 67 CONTENTS Wireless on Wheels / 68 Mesh Networks / 68 3.7.1 Emergency Mesh / 71 Wireless Sensor is a "Spec" / 73 Collaborative Sensing / 74 Optical Sensors / 74 Navigating the Real World / 75 Wireless Underwear / 76 4. The Future is Fiber-Optical Technologies Faster Networks / 78 4.1.1 Faster Fiber / 79 4.1.2 Next-Generation Telecom Network / 81 New Optical Materials / 82 4.2.1 New Glasses / 83 4.2.2 Optical Fibers in Sponges / 85 4.2.3 Mineral Wire / 87 4.2.4 Hybrid Pastic / 87 4.2.5 Buckyballs / 88 4.2.6 Old Glass/New Promise / 89 Nanophotonics / 90 Wave Polarization / 92 Optical Communications via CDMA / 93 Light Emitters / 93 4.6.1 Smallest Light Emitter / 93 4.6.2 Light-Emitting Transitor / 94 4.6.3 VCSEL / 96 4.6.4 Improved VCSEL / 97 4.6.5 Tiny Laser / 98 4.6.6 Looking Into Lasers / 99 4.6.7 Manipulating Light / 100 Optical Antenna / 101 Keeping Copper / 102 5. The Internet Rules-IP Technologies VoIP Telephony / 104 The Next Internet / 106 5.2.1 Riding the LambdaRail / 107 5.2.2 Faster Protocol / 110 Grid Computing / 114 CONTENTS Infostructure / 114 5.4.1 Intelligent Agents / 118 5.4.2 Next-Generation Agent / 119 Tele-Learning Opens Horizons / 120 A New Approach to Virus Scanning / 121 Putting a Lid on Spam / 123 The Meaning Behind Messages / 124 Internet Simulator / 125 Untangling Tangled Nets / 126 6. Something in the Air-Radio and Location Technologies Digital Radio / 128 Software-Defined Radio / 129 Ultrawideband Radio / 130 Asset Tracking / 131 6.4.1 RFID Components / 133 6.4.2 Tag and Read / 134 6.4.3 REID in Retail / 135 Radio Monitors / 136 Vehicu