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I will admit that I didn't really imagine Ikea in the role of "technological innovator," but I have to say that the furniture maker has come up with a... Read More »

International European researchers from the NanoBioTact and NanoBioTouch projects have created a sensitive artificial finger. The goal of these projects is to improve ... Read More »

MIT researchers have devised simple software which amplifies subtle time-dependent changes in videos. The method involves decomposing each frame of the video and... Read More »

For the first time, the number of mobile internet users has surpassed that of non-mobile users, a surprising and significant statistic about the world's largest... Read More »

Small speakers (especially mobile device speakers) suffer from the uneveness of amplified sound. The problem is that speakers have different damage thresholds for... Read More »

RIM appears to get more bad news every week -- I sometimes wonder if the number of grey hairs on Thorsten Heins' head could be monitored as an indicator of... Read More »

German automation manufacturer Festo has been demonstrating some pretty interesting technology at trade shows recently. As an industrial-focused robotics maker, their ... Read More »

Researchers from Imperial College London have fashioned a commercially viable eye tracking device. This simple innovation could soon allow victims of paralysis to... Read More »

Fond memories are really all that's left, in most internet user's minds, of the once-successful content aggregator Digg.com. The past few months have looked... Read More »

The race is on, as it were, for the first to implement effective glasses-free 3D technology. Many of these technologies are currently too expensive, or provide a... Read More »

“We could not get consistent results,” he said. “It was very frustrating and really weird.” Zongming Xiu, a Rice postdoctoral researcher... Read More »

The latest chapter in Google's online privacy story involves surreptitiously circumventing privacy settings in the Safari browser. Now, Google has agreed to pay... Read More »

Handed, more often referred to as "chirality," is an important characteristic in the micro- and nano-scopic world. Many molecules we encounter in our... Read More »

Ubiquitous GPS technology has changed the way we navigate from place to place, but has surprisingly little to offer for navigating inside these spaces. IndoorAtlas is... Read More »

The latest Blackberry is delayed until after the Christmas shopping season -- the most recent in a slew of increasingly unfortunate news for the Canadian phone maker... Read More »

Graphene and other carbon allotropes promise dramatic improvements to electronics, but they all suffer from the same problem. These carbon-based structures are... Read More »

On Tuesday, less than one week after the big reveal of Google's Project Glass, Apple was granted a patent for a "head-mounted display." The application... Read More »

Even the highest quality television can easily seem unrealistic. One primary reason for this, that camera movements are unsurprisingly unlike the human eye's, is... Read More »

In the past two years, Cypress Semiconductors has made three offers to buy its smaller competitor Ramtron International. In June, Cypress raised its offer from $2.48... Read More »

As anticipated, in a July 4th seminar at CERN in Geneva, particle physicists confirmed the discovery of the Higgs boson. Highly anticipated, the result is of great... Read More »