Telecosmos -- Contents -- Introduction -- Information Portal -- Back to Me -- I, Telecom Junkie -- 1. On the Menu-Telecom Services -- 1.1 End of the Line for Wireline? -- 1.2 The Broadband World -- 1.2.1 Broadband Over Power Lines -- 1.3 The Upcoming Mobile Stall -- 1.4 Fourth-Generation Mobile Service -- 1.5 Modular Components -- 1.6 A Considerate Telephone -- 1.7 E-Mail Leads to Instant Messaging -- 1.8 Fun and Games -- 1.9 Flying Phone Service -- 1.10 Speech Integration -- 1.11 Telemedicine -- 1.11.1 Health Monitoring -- 1.11.2 Small Clinics/Hospitals -- 1.11.3 Monitoring on the Road -- 2. Nuts and Bits-Telecom Hardware, Software, and More -- 2.1 Personal Computers -- 2.1.1 Smaller and Smarter PCs -- 2.2 Home Automation -- 2.3 Wearable Computers -- 2.4 Smart Fabrics -- 2.5 Embedded Systems -- 2.6 Project Oxygen -- 2.6.1 The Vision -- 2.6.2 Goals -- 2.6.3 User Technologies -- 2.6.4 Applications -- 2.6.5 Hurdles -- 2.6.6 The Payoff -- 2.7 The Obje Software Architecture -- 2.8 BARN Opens the Door -- 2.9 Phone Awareness -- 2.10 Cognitive Software: Anticipating User Intent -- 2.11 Devices That Understand You -- 2.12 Turbocharging Data -- 2.12.1 Faster Transistor -- 2.12.2 Cutting-Edge Manufacturing -- 2.12.3 Wireless Chip -- 2.12.4 Open Source Smart Phones -- 2.12.5 Nanowiring -- 2.13 MEMS -- 2.13.1 Low-Loss, Wide-Bandwith MEMS -- 2.13.2 StressedMetal MEMS -- 2.13.3 The Nanoguitar -- 2.14 Storage -- 2.14.1 Tiny Hard Drive -- 2.14.2 Optical Storage -- 2.14.3 Nanoring Memory -- 2.15 More Efficient Base Stations -- 2.15.1 Boosting Mobile Phone Range -- 3. Connections in the Air-Wireless Technologies -- 3.1 Wireless LAN "Hotspots" -- 3.2 WLANs to Come -- 3.3 WLAN for Emergency Communications -- 3.4 Smart Brick -- 3.5 Wireless Smart Stuff -- 3.6 Wireless on Wheels -- 3.7 Mesh Networks -- 3.7.1 Emergency Mesh -- 3.8 Wireless Sensor is a "Spec".

3.9 Collaborative Sensing -- 3.10 Optical Sensors -- 3.11 Navigating the Real World -- 3.12 Wireless Underwear -- 4. The Future is Fiber-Optical Technologies -- 4.1 Faster Networks -- 4.1.1 Faster Fiber -- 4.1.2 Next-Generation Telecom Network -- 4.2 New Optical Materials -- 4.2.1 New Glasses -- 4.2.2 Optical Fibers in Sponges -- 4.2.3 Mineral Wire -- 4.2.4 Hybrid Pastic -- 4.2.5 Buckyballs -- 4.2.6 Old Glass/New Promise -- 4.3 Nanophotonics -- 4.4 Wave Polarization -- 4.5 Optical Communications via CDMA -- 4.6 Light Emitters -- 4.6.1 Smallest Light Emitter -- 4.6.2 Light-Emitting Transitor -- 4.6.3 VCSEL -- 4.6.4 Improved VCSEL -- 4.6.5 Tiny Laser -- 4.6.6 Looking Into Lasers -- 4.6.7 Manipulating Light -- 4.7 Optical Antenna -- 4.8 Keeping Copper -- 5. The Internet Rules-IP Technologies -- 5.1 VoIP Telephony -- 5.2 The Next Internet -- 5.2.1 Riding the LambdaRail -- 5.2.2 Faster Protocol -- 5.3 Grid Computing -- 5.4 Infostructure -- 5.4.1 Intelligent Agents -- 5.4.2 Next-Generation Agent -- 5.5 Tele-Learning Opens Horizons -- 5.6 A New Approach to Virus Scanning -- 5.7 Putting a Lid on Spam -- 5.8 The Meaning Behind Messages -- 5.9 Internet Simulator -- 5.10 Untangling Tangled Nets -- 6. Something in the Air-Radio and Location Technologies -- 6.1 Digital Radio -- 6.2 Software-Defined Radio -- 6.3 Ultrawideband Radio -- 6.4 Asset Tracking -- 6.4.1 RFID Components -- 6.4.2 Tag and Read -- 6.4.3 REID in Retail -- 6.5 Radio Monitors -- 6.6 Vehicular Telematics -- 6.6.1 Vehicular Radar -- 6.6.2 Train Monitor -- 6.6.3 Satellite Road Tolls -- 6.7 Helping Ranchers From Space -- 6.8 Seeing Inside Walls -- 6.9 Microscillator -- 6.10 Antenna Technologies -- 6.10.1 High Dielectric Antenna -- 6.10.2 Nanotube Antenna -- 6.10.3 Fractal Antennas -- 6.10.4 Fractal Antenna Design -- 6.10.5 Towers in the Sky -- 6.11 Interference -- 6.11.1 An Allocation Approach.

6.11.2 Quieter Ovens -- 7. The Unblinking Eye-Security and Surveillance -- 7.1 Testing Security -- 7.2 Location-Based Privacy Software -- 7.3 Securing Privacy -- 7.4 The Seeing Eye -- 7.4.1 Observation Camera -- 7.4.2 Surveillance Legality -- 7.4.3 Security Video Network -- 7.4.4 Focusing on Pre crime -- 7.4.5 Smart Surveillance Camera Software -- 7.4.6 Motion-Tracking Cameras -- 7.5 Smart Roads -- 7.6 Chip Implants -- 7.6.1 Getting Under Your Skin -- 7.6.2 Faster Fingerprints Via Wireless -- 7.7 Encryption -- 7.7.1 A Double-Shot of Security Software -- 7.7.2 Data Hiding -- 7.7.3 Data Hiding's Positive Side -- 7.8 Quantum Cryptography -- 7.8.1 Quantum Dots -- 7.8.2 Quantum Photon Detector -- 7.8.3 Distance Record -- 7.9 E-Mail "Cluster Bombs" -- 8. Energy to Go-Power Generation -- 8.1 New Materials -- 8.1.1 Carbon Nanotube Batteries -- 8.1.2 Thin Films -- 8.2 Smaller, Lighter Power Adapter -- 8.2.1 Glass Battery -- 8.2.2 Ion Trek -- 8.3 Fuel Cells -- 8.4 Microcombustion Battery -- 8.5 Power Monitor -- 8.6 Cooling Technologies -- 8.6.1 SynJets -- 8.6.2 VIDA -- 8.6.3 Wiggling Fans -- 9. The Critical Last Inch-Input and Output Technologies -- 9.1 A Finger Phone -- 9.2 Voice Input -- 9.2.1 Saying It With Meaning -- 9.2.2 Talking to Objects -- 9.2.3 Computer Talk -- 9.3 Improved Audio Output -- 9.4 Touch Input -- 9.4.1 Touching Research -- 9.5 Projection Keyboards -- 9.6 Thought Input -- 9.7 Output -- 9.8 A New View -- 9.9 Paper-Like Video Displays -- 9.9.1 Electronic Paper Display for Mobile Phones -- 9.9.2 Ogling OLEDs -- 9.9.3 Polymer Displays -- 9.9.4 Quantum Displays -- 9.10 Finding Information -- 9.10.1 Simplified Image Retrieval -- 9.11 Disabled Access -- 9.11.1 Mobile Phone Interface -- 9.11.2 GPS Guidance -- 9.11.3 Speech-Controlled Arm -- Glossary -- Index.