Teich's Tech Tidbit of the Week
Chronological Listing

2004

January Jack Finney:  Time Traveler
February Yesterday's Future (update)
March Portable Music Players: From Walkman to iPod
April Containerized Shipping:  Thinking Inside the Box (Update)
May Wine Technology: The Screw Cap vs The Cork
June Who Put the @ in Your E-mail? (Update)
July Computational Origami
August Technology and the 2004 Olympics

2003

January  BMW's 745i:  Too Much Technology?
February Revolving Doors:  Always Open, Always Closed
March  The Kaleidoscope
April  Technology Assessment Update
May  The Automat:  Originator of Fast Food
June  The World's Smallest Light Bulb
July  Fabrics that Glow (and Do Other Tricks)
August Blimps
September Harley-Davidson Hits 100
October Science and Technology: Just for Laughs
November Controlling Machines With Your Brain
December The Wright Brothers Didn't Do it Alone

2002

January 7 & 14Worldwide Science & Technology Indicators
          21 Iridium Lives!
          28 Wavefront Coding:  The New Optics

February 4 Spy Tech
           11, 18 & 25 Technology for the Winter Olympics

March 4  The Mimeograph Machine
         11, 18 & 25  Fusion--Or Just Noisy Bubbles?

April 1 & 8  Three-Dimensional Printing
        15 9th Edition Preview (of Technology and the Future)
          22 The Hollerith Card: Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate

May 6   Nuclear Landscaping
       20  The Man Who Loved Light Bulbs
       27 The Webcam Phenomenon

June  The Other World Cup:  Robot Soccer

July 1  Smart Elevators
        8 Follow the Money
      15  Ted Williams Goes Into Extra Innings
      22  More Spy Tech
      29  2002 World Technology Awards

August 12  9th Edition Authors: Lawrence Lessig
        19 9th Edition Authors: Bill Joy
        26 9th Edition Authors: Thomas Murray

September 2  9th Edition Authors: Ziauddin Sardar
               9  9th Edition Authors: John Seely Brown
                 16  9th Edition Authors: Seth Shostak
        23 9th Edition Authors: Jerome Groopman, M.D.
        30 9th Edition Authors: Robert Pool

October 7& 14  9th Edition Authors: Amory & Hunter Lovins
        219th Edition Authors: Brian Martin
               28  9th Edition Authors: Paul Duguid

November 4  9th Edition Authors: Gene Rochlin
        11 & 18  9the Edition Authors:  President George W. Bush
        25 Frisbee®:  From Fad to International Sport

December 2 SOFIA: The Next Step in Airborne Astronomy
        9&16The Technology of Snow Removal
        23 & 30  Yesterday's Future

2001

January 8  2001:  A Space Odyssey
              15 Area Codes:  Long Distance Confusion
              22 Zamboni:  The Iceman Cometh
              29 Beauty Through a Microscope

February 5 The Technology of Eating Utensils
               12 & 19 Special: Technology and Human Rights
               26  Technological Compatibility

March 5 & 12 Special: Technology and the Genome
           19 Wireless Text Messaging
           26 Technology in Rock Music

April 2 The Internet and Traditional Crafts
          9  Technology and the History of Science
        16 Household Technology:  The Vacuum Cleaner
        23 Nanotechnology
        30 Vacationing in Space--Update

May 7  Engineering Triumphs and Tragedies
      14  Who Put the @ in Your E-mail?
      21  Special:  Science and Technology Indicators
      28  Vending Machines

June 4 & 11 Containerized Shipping:  Thinking Inside the Box
June 18, 25 & July 2  Top Ten Tidbits

July 9  Left-Handed Technology
       16 1999:  Our Hopeful Future
       23, 30 & August 6  Floating Sneakers and Ocean Currents

August 13&20  Satellites in the Atmosphere
              27 Special: Science and Technology Indicators (UPDATE)

September 3  The Safety Match
                   10 OTA May Be Dead, But Technology Assessment Lives
                   17 Black Boxes and Aviation Safety (UPDATE)
                   24 Biometrics and Security

October 1  Express Delivery:  From Pneumatiques to FedEx
                8 & 15 Baseball Technology (UPDATE)
             22  Dark Skies and Light Pollution
             29  High Tech Halloween

November 5 & 12  Modern Fire Fighting
                 19 Cooking at the Speed of Light?
        26 Snowmaking Technology

December 3 The Navajo Code Talkers
        10 Slide Rules Rule
         17The Pocket Calculator
      24 Velcro

2000

January 3 Millennium Predictions from President Bill Clinton
              10 Back to the Future Via World's Fairs
              17 Murphy's Law
              24 The Globalization of Radio
              31 Girls and Technology

February 7 Technology for Preserving the Past
               14 The Leading Edge of Futurism?
                21 Technology and Esthetics II
                28 Socially Responsible Investing

March   6  The Technology of Cheese
             13  Electroluminescence (aka Indiglo)
             20  Science Fiction as Futurism

March 27 & April 3
         Top Ten Top Ten Lists of Tech Sites

April 10  Poetry and Technology
           17  The Good News About Automobile Safety
           24  Technology and Diabetes

May 1   Love Canal: Unhappy 20th Anniversary
        8 Iridium: A Technology Ahead of Its Time?
      15   Free Trips to Disney World and Other Internet Hoaxes
      22   SFX:  The Technology of Special Effects
      29   Fuel Cells:  21st Century Energy

June 5  Baseball Tech (Encore Presentation)
        12 Advances in Bicycling Technology
        19 What Time Is It (On the Internet)?

June 26 & July 3
         Computer Ethics

July 10  Standards for Literacy on Technology & Society
         17 Alvin Toffler:  Future Shock at 30
         24 Vacationing in Space
         31 The Typewriter

August 7  Black (and Feminist, Gay, Hindu, etc.) Science Fiction
            14  Nuclear Nostalgia
            21  Tire Technology
           28   Fighting Cancer with Your PC

September 4  Numbers Radio:  Weird Technology
                  11  Scooters Go High Tech
                 18  Technology and the Olympics

September 25 & October 2  Special: Government, Democracy and the Internet

October 9 - November 5  Special: U.S. Presidential Candidates' Views on Science & Technology

November 6  E-books
                 13  Fast Ships from Down Under
                 20 & 27  The Technology of Voting and Counting Votes

December 4  Computer Recycling
                  11 Happy Birthday, Silly Putty
                  18 Technologist Wins Nobel Prize

December 25 & January 1  Technophobia!

1999

July 19  The Pocket Protector
         26 An Electronic Nose?

August 2  The Museum of Jurassic Technology
              9  The Post Office and the Age of the Universe
            16  Translating Spoken Speech
            23  Anonymity--$5 a month
            30  Searching for Aliens from Your Home Computer

September 6  The Automatic External Defibrillator
                  13  Web Amusements
                  20  Visions of Technology
                  27  Seen a Bot Lately?

October 4  Baseball Tech
              11 Assistive Technology
              18 Nurturing Invention
              25 Technology and Esthetics I

November 1 Photovoltaics:  Energy for the New Millennium?
                  8 Centennial of the Paper Clip
                15 Music and Technology  UPDATED Dec. 13
                22 Black Boxes and Aviation Safety
                29 Traffic and Weather on the Internet

December 6 Space War:  The First Computer Game
                 13 Nanosats
                 20 & 27 Winston Churchill on Technolog