THERE is an indisputable elegance to the idea of transforming garbage into fuel, of turning icky, smelly detritus into something valuable. But big drawbacks have prevented the wholesale adop... Read more
Samsung is drawing closer and closer to the technology that will transform the future of smartphones and tablets. It will show off its progress in a couple weeks at CES 2013 when it demos a... Read more
A sensor network to measure various aspects of environmental quality Earlier this month, we reported on the Scosche RDTX-Pro that connects via a dock connector to turn an iPhone or iPod touc... Read more
RDTX-Pro radiation detector and app for iPhone and iPod touch As a result of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, radiation detectors have be... Read more
To Catch a Thief IT ALL happened so fast and without the slightest apprehension. Queuing for a railway ticket at Waterloo station in London one quiet Sunday morning some years ago, your corr... Read more
Some of the worst product flops in history started as big ideas. Crystal Pepsi was billed as the here and now of colas, offering a caffeine free alternative with the grandeur of health and c... Read more
The social networking revolution is apparently not something you can drive to. A Super Bowl ad for the Chevy Cruze showed a guy heading home from a date and then using a voice-activated vers... Read more
iDevices seem to be the control interface of choice for increasing numbers of remote controlled devices – just look at Parrot’s AR.Drone and the iPhly app. Now Griffin, a company... Read more
Combining lighting with audio by using a light socket to power a wireless speaker is a two-in-one approach that appears to be gaining traction and this latest example – the Sound of Li... Read more
Demonstrating stable, fast and low-power performance In a recent issue of the journal Nature, researchers from the University of Twente, Netherlands, explain how they succeeded in tra... Read more