Currie Munce, of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies in San Jose, Calif., is reflected in the disks from new 4 Gigabyte Microdrives. The world's smallest hard disk drive weighs just 16 grams and is designed to store large quantities of high-resolution digital photos and video, MP3 music, electronic games and other large files. The matchbook-sized drive features breakthroughs in capacity and performance.
Is he "The Invisible Man" by H.G. Wells? It looks as if three men walking behind graduate student Kazutoshi Obana are seen through his body during a demonstration of optical camouflage technology at the Tokyo University in Tokyo, Feb. 5, 2003.
This is an artist's rendering of a Mars Exploration Rover. A Delta II rocket launched the first of two Mars Exploration Rover (MER) missions for NASA in June 2003.
During a trial navogation, passenger ships wait to move through the huge doors of the permanent ship lock of the Three Gorges Dam to descend to the next level down on the Yangtze River, near Yichang, in central China's Hubei Province, June 16, 2003.
Bob Barnes is shown in the computer room of his Fresno, Calif., home, July 24, 2003. Barnes, a 50-year-old grandfather, was subpoenaed for downloading music off the Internet. The recording industry sought legal action against many individuals in an effort to discourage illegitimate file-sharing.
A fossil of a small sea creature extracted from a 425-million-year-old British rock formation is seen in this undated photo released by the magazine Science, Researchers say it is the oldest unequivocally male fossil known. The animal, a new member of a large species group called ostracode, was buried under volcanic ash which mineralized and retained an image of its soft body parts.
Mars is seen in the night sky over the coastline at Corona del Mar state beach in Newport Beach, Calif., Aug. 25, 2003, at 5 a.m. PT. Mars and Earth reached their closest encounter in 60,000 years that week.
Apple Computer Inc. CEO Steve Jobs gestures during a media presentation, Oct. 16. 2003, in San Francisco. In a move to reach the broader market of rival Microsoft-platform users, Jobs unveiled a fully Windows-compatible Apple iTunes Music Store, a song-downloading service that has proven successful among Macintosh users.
A station worker guides a passenger near a Maglev train on Oct. 25, 2003, in Shanghai, China. Shanghai's 260 mph magnetic levitation train is to start daily commercial operation early in 2004. The system is the world's first commercial use of "maglev" technology, which uses a cushion of magnetism instead of wheels to support and propel a train.
The aurora lights up Japan's northern skies, Oct. 29, 2003, in the aftermath of a spectacular eruption of the surface of the sun. This photo was taken by astronomers at the Rikubetsu Astronomical Observatory on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido at around 8 p.m.
British visitors Jennifer Ursell, 60, and Peter Flower, 60, both from Kent, wave while the Concorde arrives at the Grantley Adams International Airport in southern Christ Church parish in Barbados, Nov. 17,2003. The retired Concorde jet arrived in Barbados from London in a ceremonial last trip to the island where it is to be displayed in a museum.