At the moment, the patent system is seriously malfunctioning. The high volume of low quality, poorly defined patents, particularly in the software and IT industries, is catalyzing the explos... Read more
Exciting early days for voice recognition Voice recognition technology is critically important, not just for mobile phones, but potentially for control of lots of other devices, particularly... Read more
Now here’s a clever solution for transporting, storing and charging multiple tablet computers. The PowerCRATE is a portable (you can even air-freight tablets in situ) solution for char... Read more
Where Willow Glass differs from Gorilla Glass, however, is its unusual thinness and flexibility Corning announced details of a major new glass design at the eighth annual Display Week... Read more
Parker’s dismissive attitude toward an entrepreneur pitching a new device isn’t unique When entrepreneur Julia Hu presented her prototype of a vibrating wristband alarm cl... Read more
Who hasn’t killed at least one houseplant in their time? Personally, I have given up trying to nurture these fussy organisms altogether and my house is now a green-free zone. Technolog... Read more
Next-generation science e-books may help keep young people engaged Science can advance quickly, rendering existing textbooks obsolete. Now new digital textbooks are emerging intended to bett... Read more
A voice-enabled future VLAD SEJNOHA is talking to the TV again. O.K., maybe you’ve done that, too. But here’s the weird thing: His TV is listening. “Dragon TV,” Mr. Sejnoha says to the scree... Read more
Until 40 percent off, “the customer doesn’t even pay attention,” P. T. Vineburgh has a sense of how much things should cost, and on a recent trip to the Boston jeweler Shreve, Crump & Lo... Read more
The Retina Display in the new iPad is so good that millions are soon not going to be satisfied with anything less. This will ripple through the personal computing space like wildfire. When A... Read more
Not in Canada, Australia, UK??? I’m paying $5 a month, and my connection is 1,000 times faster. You’re probably paying something like $60 a month for high-speed Internet. I’m paying $5 a mon... Read more