The Next Two Decades
Science A British government agency explores the potential impact of key technological trends in the next twenty years The British telecom regulator, Ofcom, released its most recent technology...
View ArticleSony's New Internal Wireless Tech Snips Wires Inside Your Gadgets
Gadgets Fewer wires mean less breakdowns and smaller packages Wireless TV just got a whole new meaning. Sony has just announced a new short-range, intra-gadget technology that clocks a 11Gbps transfer...
View ArticleSkinput Turns Any Bodily Surface Into a Touch Interface
Gadgets The future of touchscreen interfaces is: you? A project between a Carnegie Mellon researcher and a couple of creative thinkers over at Microsoft Research have created… The future of...
View ArticleThe Light from Your Desk Lamp Could Carry Broadband Signals
Technology The future of wireless: illumination as information A bright idea coming out of Germany's Fraunhofer Institute could change the way we connect to the Internet in the future, as well as...
View ArticleCity of St. Cloud Will Install Energy-Saving LED Lights That Also Blink...
Science Not to be confused with Bespin, the Cloud City Last year, we wrote about a particularly bright scheme for using a room's lighting to also transmit data, creating a wireless Internet connection...
View ArticleTrojan-Horse MP3s Could Let Hackers Break Into Your Car Remotely, Researchers...
Gadgets Last year we told you how hackers could someday infiltrate your car’s control systems and install malware to take things over, as long as they had some computer skills and a… Last year we told...
View ArticleDARPA Wants to Bring Wireless Power to Troops and Their Gadgets in the Field
Technology Too much gadget and not enough battery. It's a problem any early adopter of a smartphone has faced (and, to some degree, is still facing) and can be a particular hassle when… Too much...
View ArticleHow Guns Got Smarter
Technology The marketplace might finally be catching up to science fiction As any science-fiction fan knows, a smart gun is designed to work only for the person authorized to use it. Since the 19th...
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