When thinking of your home security, you are most likely thinking of burglar alarm systems that can detect when somebody is trying to open a window or door, perhaps smoke detectors or maybe even a...
"A small pilot program in a school in England provides 30 students with PSPs to access study materials, replacing their textbooks..." Common sense - don't fight them, work with them. Hope so
"Sticking to an exercise regime is always easier if there's some sort of reward or punishment involved. Well, Sony Ericsson reckons that a phone or PDA could provide just the right incentive.&quo
"A lot of work into flexible sensors uses substrates that only bend in one axis," Liu explains, "we want to be able to have things fully flexible in three dimensions."
"...applications ranging from interactive whiteboards to touch-screen tables and digital walls--any of which could be manipulated by more than just one person." Where's my Minority Report?
"Some 43% of Britons who watch video from the internet or on a mobile device at least once a week said they watched less normal TV as a result." We can hope they respond by improving the pro
"Sensors will be fitted to pedestrians and in buses as part of a £4.1m project aiming to measure pollution levels across England." Participatory pollution panopticon? Link via Warren Ellis.
"Unlike record companies, which faced the double whammy of the iPod and illegal file sharing, the online market has given book publishers some breathing room." Hmmm. Via Grumpy Old Bookman.
"With new technology called near-field communications, you could use a cell phone to make purchases, or even download a movie trailer from a poster." Is there anything that your mobile phone
WHEN it comes to interacting with computers, our sense of touch has been all but ignored. It's the first sense we develop in the womb, yet for most of us rumbling games controllers or vibrating cellph
The nation's obsession with reading things on mobile devices is generating new levels of eye strain, going beyond the typical eye strain found by people who are simply staring at a computer screen all