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 Mi... Read more
Software could make it easier to see in difficult driving conditions A prototype headlight system can detect raindrops or snow streaks and “dis-illuminate” them, thereby increasi... Read more
The new technology uses the Doppler effect Not one to be outdone by Disney’s any-surface touch interface, Microsoft Research, working with the University of Washington, has developed a Kinec... Read more
In a voice that sounds like yours Research software from Microsoft synthesizes speech in a foreign language, but in a voice that sounds like yours. Researchers at Microsoft have made softwar... Read more
Photographic Memory “Nana technology” could compensate for failing memories among people with Alzheimer’s disease, amnesia and other difficulties by taking over some of the... Read more
The beauty of a virtual world is surely that anything is possible Does anyone remember the animated version of Star Trek from the 1970s? The Emmy-Award-winning series was the very first outi... Read more
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... Read more
The U.S. EPA estimated that servers and data centers were responsible for up to 1.5 percent of the total U.S. electricity consumption, or roughly 0.5 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions... Read more