To what extent can social networking make it easier to find people and solve real-world problems? IN 1967 Stanley Milgram, an American social scientist, conducted an experiment in which he sent dozens of packages to [...]

Microsoft’s speech recognizer can correctly identify 86 to 88 percent of the words in arbitrary speech, Rashid said. Ever wondered what you’d sound like if you were fluent in Chinese, French or another language you [...]

Future research projects include optimized routing, road hazard reporting, optimized de-icing, beacon for at-risk pedestrians, and vehicle-to-vehicle communication to enhance rear signaling. Someday, your auto and the roadway will be in constant communication and able [...]

In recent years, telepresence systems have become more common. Unfortunately, most of them are little more than a videophone on top of a motorized stick. The EU Commission’s Community Research and Development Information Service (CORDIS) [...]

LG has just shown off the world’s first 84-inch Ultra Definition (UD) LCD interactive whiteboard, and it’s truly something to behold. The technology is being geared towards schools, where teachers could use it as a [...]

What it does blurs the line between the digital and real world A trip on public transport or to the local coffee shop might give the impression that touchscreens are everywhere, but scientists at Autodesk [...]

This provides a very intuitive experience, like the hand being ‘pulled’ toward the target. Researchers at HIIT and Max Planck Institute for Informatics show how computer vision -based hand tracking and vibration feedback on the [...]

Forget the TV remote and the games controller, now you can control anything from your mobile phone to the television with just a wave of your hand. Researchers at Newcastle University and Microsoft Research Cambridge [...]

False information is pervasive and difficult to eradicate, but scientists are developing new strategies such as “de-biasing,” a method that focuses on facts, to help spread the truth A recurring red herring in the current [...]

People can let their fingers – and hands – do the talking with a new touch-activated system that projects onto walls and other surfaces and allows users to interact with their environment and each other. [...]

Currently, the new optical relay device operates one million times per second. A team of scientists and engineers at the University of Minnesota has invented a unique microscale optical device that could greatly increase the [...]

Move over, Daily Deals and Flash Sales, “Crowdsourcing” is now the biggest fad in ecommerce. Sites in which members invent, design, curate and market products for the marketplace are gaining in popularity. Three such sites [...]