The Palo Alto Research Center, or PARC is studying how small robots can venture where humans cannot go […]
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RFID in Japan is back from hols (?) and has a series of entries about new uses of […]
t+25 timeline is a cultural experiment, inviting you to post a prediction for the next 25 years, year […]
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NEC designers have created design possibilities with near future paradigms in mind: ubiquitous technology, smaller hardware, and expanding […]
Design Engaged will bring together artists, designers, academics, and technologists to discuss the impact of new technologies like […]
Cafes and online world both function welll as public gathering place. But while online conversation with strangers is […]
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Long-distance health care such as telemonitoring and telerobotic surgery could be key to maintaining the wellness of future […]
Believe it or not, it seems that floor advertising can increase the sales volume for particular products up […]
Montreal-based Freeset Interactive has developed “The Human Locator“, a system allowing advertisement to interact with the passer-by. The […]
With people losing homes or away from home (because of Hurricane Charley and Tropical Storm Bonnie), T-Mobile has […]
No Name No Slogan labs have tested this years must-have device against one of the all time great […]
Elise Co investigates how technology could be applied to fashion in an expressive way. Among the projects she […]
Roman Catholics who can’t make it to France for Pope John Paul’s pilgrimage to Lourdes this weekend can […]
Karrie Karahalios and her colleagues of the MIT Media Lab have created a device that adds a visual […]
The project ‘Scentient Beings’ by Jenny Tillotson implants smell technology into multi-sensorial clothing and turns the living dress […]
Todd, at A Penny For, has opened on his blog a series called Fine Tuning, where he asks […]
Researchers of Seoul National University have developed what is called the Nano DNA-Barcode System (NDBS). The system is […]
The Open Audiobooks Project invites volunteers to create audio books of public domain texts for people to freely […]
In her sound installation called “A fleur de peau”, German artist Lynn Pia Pook invites the recipient to […]
Perhaps because of the recent jailbreaks in country, the Swedish Prison and Probation Service have decided that prisoners […]
Mobile phone operator O2 wants to build a dual office space in central London this Autumn, and is […]
Gene therapy can turn procrastinating primates into workaholics. Like many humans, monkeys tend to slack off when their […]
The ISEA2004 cruise ship in the Baltic Sea will host an event featuring, among others, the Futuresonic Sound […]
Ten years ago the first e-commerce sale was made. A company called NetMarket sold a Sting CD, “Ten […]
The virtual spaces created to collect messages to the victims of the Madrid bombing have so far received […]
Japanese food company ItoHam will print QR codes on their sausage and ham products beginning in October. The […]
Research experts at the Henley Centre say television is becoming a wallpaper medium – on in the background […]
Hidden in public, Passwort FM solves the problem of password-management, but also satisfies a basic voyeurism. Through the […]
A group of researchers from the Institute of Medical and Biological Problems, Moscow, assesses adaptation capabilities of monkeys […]
Gotcha! is a two-piece system based on RFID technology and consisting of a clip-on unit that is worn […]
Students at Northwestern University have put together a report, called “Hyperlocal Citizens’ Media: Connecting Communities, Improving Journalism, Building […]
The Spanish Web community is denouncing the current anti-piracy campaign (propaganda?) launched by the Ministries of Culture and […]
South African company iPico Holdings has created the Electronic Number Plate (ENP) RFID technology, already deployed in a […]
We are not talking about Gucci or Prada, but about the 4th Design for Chunks contest which has […]
Researchers from Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL) have developed the Radio Frequency Identity and Geometry system consisting of […]
The global sales of Japanese animation and character goods reach 9 trillion yen ($80 billion), 10 times what […]
Carlos J. Gómez de Llarena will present Urballoon at Spectropolis: Mobile Media, Art and the City, a three-day […]
A team of European scientists are studying locusts to develop a crash-avoidance technology that would prevent hundreds of […]
The UK government is considering to tag trash. A “clean neighbourhoods” bill should to be introduced this autumn […]
MyPostie, a touchscreen kiosk allowing older people to communicate electronically, is being tested at a retirement village in […]