Imagine being able to paint surfaces to make them batteries and then paint solar cells on top . . . Researchers at Rice University in Houston have developed a prototype spray-on battery that could allow [...]

“This 30 percent is actually quite a big deal” US Army Research Laboratory scientists have made a major breakthrough in increasing single-cell battery energy density by an astounding 30 percent. A small group of Army [...]

They’re all about to come to market over the next two years . . . It’s hard to think of glass as an area of rapid technology evolution. But it’s one of the central technologies [...]

Open source is now increasingly undergirding cloud computing In the 25 years since Richard Stallman wrote the GNU General Public License, free and open source software (FOSS) have become pervasive in computing: Linux, Apache HTTP [...]

The new technology could allow batteries to be charged to half of their full capacity in less than 30 seconds   Waiting for batteries to recharge sucks, but thanks to a recent breakthrough in nanotechnology, [...]

Real Steel or Dumb Metal?   Right from the start let’s agree that the argument of humans or robots is getting close to being a dead heat in some areas. With advances in artificial intelligence [...]

Yi said tablets and other mobile devices with flexible displays would follow Samsung Electronics said Friday that it is aiming to launch mobile phones with flexible displays next year, with tablets and other portable devices [...]

Now you have an excuse to touch everything. Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft Research have created OmniTouch, a wearable system that turns walls, arms, hands, table tops, paper, and just about everything else [...]

And you thought multitouch gestures were annoying – how about mashing your whole hand on your screen to close an app or rapping on it with your knuckle to summon Siri (or Iris?). A new [...]

  Have you ever looked at a particulalry stunning photograph and wished you could really immerse yourself in it? A recent project attempts to do just that, with the help of a good camera, a [...]