The plunging price of organic LED screens combined with cunning use of depth-sensing Kinect cameras heralds a quantum leap in interactive advertising THE writing’s on the wall – and it... Read more
Pumping air through a rubbery robot allows it to walk, but now you can make one jump by setting off explosions inside its body. George Whitesides from Harvard University and colleagues have... Read more
Steganography: Speaking with silence SKYPE, a computer program that allows its users to have telephone-style conversations over the internet, is extremely popular. The service, owned... Read more
Pressure-sensing floor adds new dimension to the smart home Unlike traditional solutions based on cameras, GravitySpace reconstructs scene data from a pressure-sensing floor. While the floor... Read more
The VELOCIRoACH manages top speeds of almost nine feet per second, despite being the size of, well, a cockroach If you’ve ever seen cockroaches scuttle across the floor and out of reach, you... Read more
“With so much at stake, we need to do a better job of understanding the risks of potentially catastrophic technologies.” A philosopher, a scientist and a software engineer have c... Read more
Aguilar suggests that a future version of the device might have a Geiger counter to get initial readings on suspected radioactive areas. A CLUMP of cameras, electronics and LEDs packed into... Read more
Experts predict near-Earth space will become difficult to navigate by mid-century unless agencies start removing the mess. Gassy outbursts from a suborbital rocket may be the cleanest way to... Read more
