One team packed a high-tech edge: a new microphone designed by Lucent Technologies Bell Labs .

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But the research published this week in Nature by Bruce van Dover and his colleagues at Bell Labs (part of Lucent Technologies) in Murray Hill, New Jersey, had a more specific goal.

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CCDs were invented, like so many digital age breakthroughs, at Bell Labs, now part of Lucent Technologies.

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Smell is among a number of electronic senses being developed at Bell Labs in New Jersey, the research arm of the U.S. firm Lucent Technologies.

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