From the world's first computer to high-rate haptics

Here are a couple of neat articles highlighting how far technology has come in the past 6-7 decades.
Incidentally, Dr. Okamura, mentioned in the first article, visited our lab at UNMC briefly several months ago and gave a very interesting talk at the HPER lab at UNO.
http://www.theinstitute.ieee.org/portal/site/tionline/menuitem.130a3558587d56e8fb2275875bac26c8/index.jsp?&pName=institute_level1_article&TheCat=2201&article=tionline/legacy/inst2008/mar08/featuretechnology.xml&
http://www.theinstitute.ieee.org/portal/site/tionline/menuitem.130a3558587d56e8fb2275875bac26c8/index.jsp?&pName=institute_level1_article&TheCat=1008&article=tionline/legacy/inst2008/mar08/history.xml&