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Get zapped while playing video games

Posted May 1, 2013 - 9:59 am

Project showcases small electric jolts as a way to give feedback for gamers.
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Star Trek's holodeck gets closer to reality

Posted April 29, 2013 - 4:09 pm

Microsoft concept shows living room surrounded by projections escaping the TV screen. Very cool.
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New computer chip can test DNA in one hour

Posted April 4, 2013 - 12:11 pm

Japanese-developed system can be used to personalize drug treatments for patients based on their DNA.
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Students compete in robot-Frisbee-flinging battle

Posted March 25, 2013 - 9:49 am

The next generation of robotics engineers compete in Boston.
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Kinect app lets you create 3D body avatars

Posted March 8, 2013 - 3:29 pm

Using a player's body as a model, scanner can let you create cool 3D shapes.
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Video Primer: The Rise of 3D printing

Posted February 28, 2013 - 2:43 pm

If you've wondered what the hullabaloo is over 3D printers (if you're old enough to use the word hullaballoo you qualify), check out this video.
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Japanese tech lets you feel virtual objects

Posted February 13, 2013 - 10:57 am

Research project lets subjects feel hot or cold objects based on visual stimuli.
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Switch helps change glass from clear to mirror faster than before

Posted February 12, 2013 - 11:02 am

Japanese speed up the glass-to-mirror transition via electrolysis.
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Ricoh develops brighter full color e-paper

Posted February 8, 2013 - 12:54 pm

Video report shows advances in producing full color e-paper that's brighter than ever.
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How NASA beamed the Mona Lisa to the Moon

Posted January 17, 2013 - 3:03 pm

Demonstration uses lasers for two-way communication with satellites. Painting still safe at the Louvre.
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Future computers will be able to smell, hear and taste

Posted December 17, 2012 - 3:05 pm

If a computer in five years can make healthy chocolate (or at least something that tastes close to that), I'm all in.
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Why voice recognition will finally conquer the office

Posted December 3, 2012 - 4:25 pm

While spoken input is spreading on mobile devices, it barely has a toehold in the office. But artificial intelligence that operates in the cloud will help drive speech technology beyond smartphones to computers and into other areas of the workplace, say experts.
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Table lets you draw freehand circles and straight lines more accurately

Posted November 29, 2012 - 11:19 am

Assisting people with drawing lines and circles without additional tools.
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Cameras recognize gender, age via faces for sales purposes

Posted November 12, 2012 - 10:32 am

Retailers can now use facial recognition for sales, not just security.
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Man shows off his bionic robot arm

Posted November 8, 2012 - 12:13 pm

Life imitates sci-fi movies with demonstration of robotic arm.
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Japanese make car's back seat 'disappear'

Posted November 6, 2012 - 10:54 am

New technology lets drivers look behind them and see outside their car.
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Check out this real-time heartbeat simulator

Posted November 5, 2012 - 11:50 am

In Japan, researchers create virtual heart simulator that can show a patient's heartbeat on a laptop PC.
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Cool interface connects mobile device displays into large mosaic

Posted November 1, 2012 - 10:46 am

Japanese university develops Pinch interface to simultaneously connect multiple mobile devices.
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Motion-copy robot can mimic painting brush strokes

Posted October 11, 2012 - 10:43 am

Robot can adjust and learn from the strokes of an artist
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Microsoft shows virtual hand gestures without gloves

Posted October 9, 2012 - 3:10 pm

Video shows gesture control with computers without needing to wear glove sensors.
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Software Defined Networking (SDN) explained

Posted August 29, 2012 - 12:21 pm

As is somewhat typical of emerging technologies, there isn't a universally agreed to definition of what is meant by software defined networking (SDN). Over the last year or two most of the definitions have focused on the decoupling of the network control plane from the network forwarding plane.
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5 reasons why IBM is full of FAIL

Posted January 5, 2012 - 1:35 pm

IBM has published its top five predictions for technology in 2016. And, by golly, what a load of utterly bogus, crazy rubbish they are.
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MIT camera captures video at 1 trillion frames/second

Posted December 13, 2011 - 12:14 pm

MIT Media Lab researchers have uploaded a video showing off their new imaging system that "can acquire visual data at a rate of one trillion frames per second," which is fast enough to produce wicked-slow slow-motion video of light traveling through objects.
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Robots get cuter, smarter and creepier

Posted December 1, 2011 - 4:10 pm

Two new robots that are learning lots of new things, like how to identify objects and themselves.
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Honda's new ASIMO Robot even more awesome

Posted November 8, 2011 - 6:16 pm

It's robot week apparently! Here's new video of Honda's latest version of its ASIMO humanoid robot, which can run at 9 kph, hop on one or both legs, and do all sorts of amazing things. We've
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