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Mark Shepard is developing “Tactical Sound Garden” Toolkit (working title). The concept is to create an open source […]
Texan Alison Lewis’s thesis project “Closer: Wearables for a distant society” aims at creating wearable interactive art which […]
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The Zone project –by Bernd Hitzeroth and Myriel Milicevic at Interaction Design Institute in Ivrea (Northern Italy.)– wants […]
British scientists from QinetiQ –a technology development company– found a way to mass-produce frequency-selective screens which filter out […]
Media Lab Europe’s project Breakout for Two aims at building a sense of community over a distance, without […]
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Researchers at Louis Pasteur University in Strasbourg (France) have discovered that chicken proteins can be used to store […]
East Carolina University researchers and the U.S. Army’s Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine are studying how […]
Imagine you’re looking for information that is complicated, too new to be part of an knowledge base, or […]
Researchers from HIT Lab, at the University of Washington, are developing a wearable computer that tracks objects as […]
UK police is showing interest in futuristic gadget that would disables suspect vehicles without involving high speed chases: […]
Zarlink Semiconductor, an Ottawa chip company, is taking part in an EU project aiming at developping in-body antenna […]
Scientists at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Scientific Research in Music are working on Music via Motion, a system […]
NESTA Futurelab has invented an online puppet theatre that enables children in different locations to create 3D puppets […]
Looking for ways to ease their chemo symptoms, Duke University Medical School had cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy with […]
A Northumbria University student, David Evans, has developped a hi-tech shirt, with in-built pulse and sweat monitors, that […]
A team from Medical Automation Research Center of Virginia University has developed an assistive tool that analyzes the […]
This championship ended yesterday in Lisbon and this time the Germans won. Sponsored by the company that created […]
Quinn Kozlowski, 6, suffers from cerebral palsy and avoided years of complicated surgeries to help him walk thanks […]
Newsweek has a fascinating article about fMRI, a giant cylindrical magnet able to show changes in brain activity […]
A team of facial perception experts from St Andrews University found that subtle manipulation of images put out […]
France T�l�com R&D have developped operational prototypes of flexible color screens that can be integrated into clothing. The […]
On the Italian island of Capri, doctors have distributed some 20 “cardiotelephones” to pharmacists, shopkeepers and others who […]
Researchers from Cambridge and Light Blue Optics have developed a prototype pocket-sized video projector that would easily be […]
Fujitsu Laboratories are working on a new technology to “invisibly” embed numeric characters (such as a telephone number […]
The Create Health Clinic in London pioneered a 3D/4D scanning that produces 3D ultrasound images and real time […]
Place Lab, a software that uses the signals from Wi-Fi base stations to calculate a user’s position is […]
NEC research unit has developed a vegetable-based plastic that has the ability to “remember” its past shapes and […]
Growing concern about global warming and climate change calls for closer monitoring of the way glaciers behave. The […]
An important element of human communications is body language: it helps detect if a person is annoyed, tired, […]
Technology Review published a portrait of Maggie Orth, founder of International Fashion Machines , a company that researches […]
Researchers from the University of Queensland in Australia have written a hallucination simulation software to allow psychiatrists to […]
The wi-fi technology could make a big difference in the efficiency and accuracy with which growers can get […]
Scientists from Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, are working on self-cleaning clothes: cotton cloth is coated with particles […]
Microsoft’s research labs in Cambridge have developed i2i, a camera for use with instant messaging that automatically frames […]
Researchers at Sony’s Interaction Laboratory in Tokyo have developped a pen that extends the drag and drop technique […]
High Energy Magic is turning camera phones into remote controls. The system relies on the SpotCode reader software […]
The Buckminster Fuller Institute and the Cal-(IT)2 Game Culture & Technology Lab at UC Irvine are working on […]
Scientists at Kyoto University are developing microscopic devices that should someday eliminate the jabbing with needles, peeing in […]
CitiTag Trial is a location-based game exploring spontaneous social interaction in city environments. Public trials will take place […]