ED_EUROPE NEWSLINE_ A Penton Media Property November 19, 2009 If you want to view this on the web go to: http://enews.penton.com/enews/electronicdesign/v/962 EDITOR'S COMMENT --Would You Let A Tiny Robot Swim Through Your Body? By Paul Whytock, Editor-in-Chief Robotic capability is developing at a speed that would astonish even the prophetic sci-fi author Isaac Asimov. Now we have robots that can jump high obstacles in the battlefield or crawl or swim in the human body, the latter being reminiscent of the theme of Asimov's Fantastic Voyage novel back in the 1960s. 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To view the full article go to: http://europe.elecdesign.com/Articles/ArticleID/22142/22142.html --Chip Consortium To Develop High-Security ID Cards By Paul Whytock, Editor-in-Chief Semiconductor companies Infineon Technologies AG and NXP Semiconductors Germany (NXP) and chip card maker Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) are among eleven companies from six European Union (EU) countries participating in the European research project BioP@ss to develop a high-security chip card platform. To view the full article go to: http://europe.elecdesign.com/Articles/ArticleID/22143/22143.html HOT TOPICS --Femtocell Silicon Gets Flexible Yet Stays Cost Competitive By Dr. Ebrahim Bushehri, Lime Microsystems Networks of small cell base stations--"femtocells"--are being deployed to enable better coverage in buildings and high-performance data services on mobile devices. 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